![]() Waking up in the Blackwood Pack’s hospital, he’s shocked to discover his Fated Mate is one of the pack’s members he’d been ordered to kill.Ĭody is a seer and has grappled with visions all his life, but after most of his family is massacred they have intensified so fiercely he begins to make plans to escape his pain and suffering. ![]() Imprisoned and beaten to within an inch of his life, he’s dumped at the side of a road and left for dead. Readers of the past books will enjoy meeting old friends once more as the pack does what it does best ̶ caring for one another and helping shifters everywhere.Įnforcer Dylon Royd worked for the notorious Silver Point Pack until they accused him of disloyalty. ![]() ![]() This is part of an on-going series by Amazon Bestselling Author, Mary Rundle, and catching up on previous titles is advised. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are remarkably vivid, the narrative is ever intellectually stimulating (as all get out), and as usual, Mr. As with previous volumes in this extremely well crafted series, there's an awful lot to like, nay. Lizzie Borden, the Girl Detective of Fall River, is at her most spirited in The Minuscule Monk, a comic mystery that paints a portrait of Fall River at the height of its splendor and its most infamous citizen at the start of her most excellent career.Ībsolutely impressive! Yet again! But then, I honestly expected nothing less from author Richard Behrens and his ongoing Lizzie Borden: Girl Detective mysteries. Or perhaps, as Lizzie suspects after attending a dinner party with non-existent food and meeting a horse that has turned into its opposite, none of it is even real. With such high stakes, everyone has a motive for murder, yet everyone seems innocent. ![]() Accompanied by an eccentric millionaire who campaigns to extend the vote to animals a Boston terrier trained to sniff out crooked politicians and a boy detective who believes the entire universe to be inside his own head, Lizzie follows a trail of taxidermy tools and Civil War bushwhackers to the Minuscule Monk, a legendary gunslinger whose mummified body will bring a punter’s pot to anyone who can deliver it to the New York gangster who has been hunting the Monk for decades. When a dead body mysteriously appears in the basement of her father’s furniture store, 15 year-old Lizzie Andrew Borden immediately takes on the case. ![]() ![]() Ubiquitous AI that knows you better than you know yourself In ten gripping narratives that crisscross the globe, coupled with incisive analysis, Lee and Chen explore AI's challenges and its potential: In this provocative work that juxtaposes speculative storytelling and science, Lee, one of the world's leading AI experts, has teamed up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to reveal how AI will trickle down into every aspect of our world by 2041. ![]() Humankind needs to wake up to AI, both its pathways and perils. ![]() Within two decades, aspects of daily life may be unrecognizable. AI has surpassed humans in speech and object recognition, even outperforming radiologists in diagnosing lung cancer. In the past five years, AI has shown it can learn games like chess in mere hours-and beat humans every time. Though the term has been around for half a century, it is only now, Kai-Fu Lee argues, that AI is poised to upend our society, just as the arrival of technologies like electricity and smart phones did before it. In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years?ĪI will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, but many people know little about it apart from visions of dystopian robots or flying cars. ![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome to the world of Aadilor, where lords and ladies can be murderers and thieves, and the most alluring notes are often the deadliest. Larkyra and Darius must learn to trust each other if there is to be any hope of saving the people of Lachlan-and themselves. Soon she suspects Darius has his own motivations for ridding Lachlan of the corrupt duke. But her plans grow complicated when she finds herself drawn to Lord Darius Mekenna, Lachlan’s rightful heir. Eager to prove herself, Larkyra accepts by posing as the duke’s potential bride. When it’s discovered the Duke of Lachlan is siphoning a poisonous drug from the Thief Kingdom and using it to abuse his tenants, Larkyra is offered her first solo mission to stop the duke. Larkyra Bassette may be the youngest of the Mousai, but when she sings her voice has the power to slay monsters. There, the mysterious Thief King reigns supreme with the help of the Mousai, a trio of revered and feared sorceresses. Many whisper of its existence, but few have found this place, where magic and pleasure abound. ![]() The Thief Kingdom is a place hidden within the world of Aadilor. “From the award-winning author of the Dreamland series comes a new dark romantic fantasy about a young woman finding hope in her powers of destruction. ![]() ![]() One night the hospital burns down and Alice and Hatch escape. He is called Hatcher because he kills people with a hatchet. He also has violent outbursts and is obviously locked up because he has murdered people. The man in the cell next door starts talking to her, it takes her a while to realise that he is a real person and not a figment of her imagination. ![]() She can’t remember what happened to her but she has flashbacks which include a sinister white rabbit and blood running down her legs. ![]() We first meet Alice in a mental institution, her parents have placed her there after an episode which has left her scarred physically and mentally. The clue that this book may be a little creepy should surely be in the picture on the front cover! If you are hoping for a pleasant re telling of Alice in Wonderland I suggest that you close the book and back quietly away!Īlice by Christina Henry is the first in a series of books that venture in to a very dark and surreal world that you won’t forget in a hurry. ![]() ![]() Three Weeks With Lady X is the seventh novel of James's Desperate Duchesses series, and the first to focus on the children of the original characters. The protagonists have secondary roles in James's next book, Four Nights With a Duke.Įloisa James is the pen name of Mary Bly, a professor of English at Fordham University. The hero was first introduced as a child in James' 2009 work This Duchess of Mine. The novel is considered very sensual, and marked James' first foray into more explicit love scenes. The primary and the secondary characters are richly drawn and fully developed. The hero is also unusual for the time period, being neither a lord nor legitimate. Her interior decorating skills were inspired by James' love for HGTV. In a departure from other novels of this type, James gave her heroine an occupation. ![]() ![]() The novel is considered a Regency romance, with much of the conflict revolving around the societal expectations of the time. It was a New York Times Bestseller and was nominated for two Romantic Times awards. Three Weeks With Lady X is a historical romance written by Eloisa James and published in 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty-two percent of the books banned had sexual content. Forty percent had characters of color as primary or prominent secondary characters, with 21% of the titles dealing with issues of race and racism. Of the books banned, 41% had LGBTQ themes, protagonists or prominent secondary characters. PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans lists 2,532 instances of individual books being banned, and 1,648 unique book titles, between July 2021 and June 2022. PEN America, an international group that advocates for literacy freedom, released its report on the banned book movement Monday, as the annual Banned Books Week got underway. ![]() Some of those efforts got their start here in Central Florida. In the last year, there have been more than 2,500 instances of books being pulled from shelves in schools across America as conservative groups coordinate efforts to target books for numerous reasons, typically related to race or gender themes. 9 UPDATE: A revised list of books banned or under review is now available HERE. ![]() ![]() These books also include my favourite ever dog illustrations. A perfect book to pop into the sight lines of an older child when they get to that awkward stage of losing the child-like freedom and becoming self conscious about their drawings. This is a great book for inspiring children to put pencil to paper and just doodle and let their imagination run wild. ![]() Out come the pencils and paintbrushes and Dog draws his way into an adventure, doodling some friends to accompany him along the way. A book! What joy! What excitement awaits! But hold on… This book has no words and no pictures! It’s a sketchbook and Dog knows just what to do. A lovely book to share with little ones to introduce them to the joys of finding friends in books.ĭog Loves Drawing sees Dog happily settled and working in his bookshop, reading his books when a parcel arrives. The perfect book for book lovers, librarians, book obsessives and book pushers, Dog Loves Books is a celebration of the comfort that can be found in books and the joy of sharing them with others. As he finds friends and adventures in his books, customers start to appear and he knows exactly what books to recommend. ![]() ![]() But not for long as he realises he is surrounded by his favourite things and starts to read through his stock. When nobody arrives for the Grand Opening, Dog is disheartened. A book about books!!! Always certain to get my attention.ĭog loves books! He loves them so much that he decides to open up his own bookshop so he can share his love with others. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first generation of these machines hits the market as a group of 25 individuals, 12 “Adams” and 13 “Eves.” The novel’s protagonist, Charlie Friend, gets his hands on an Adam. ![]() Actually, in some ways it looks a little more like 2050, if you’ll allow me to speculate: the cars are electric, yes, but also completely autonomous and artificial intelligence and robotics have reached such a stage as to produce robots that are fully convincing as human beings. The result, in brief, is a series of technological breakthroughs that allow 1982 to look a lot like 2019: mobile phones, the internet, laptops, electric cars. On the one hand, Turing’s imprisonment and the rather peaceful isolation it grants him ironically frees him up to tackle some of the most difficult math and physics problems of the early postwar period. McEwan’s answer is, well, somewhat bewildering. ![]() Here’s a head-scratcher: what if Alan Turing, the legendary British mathematician and father of computer science, had chosen imprisonment over chemical castration? This is the central question that drives the alternate history undergirding McEwan’s new novel, Machines Like Me. This robot’s name is Adam, and he is Ian McEwan’s latest, though by no stretch greatest, creation. That’s what an artificially intelligent robot designed in the early ’80s would have you believe, anyway. ![]() ![]() This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people? ![]() The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.Īll Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. ![]() |