![]() ![]() Kevin’s own family has fallen apart in the wake of the disaster: his wife, Laurie, has left to join the Guilty Remnant, a homegrown cult whose members take a vow of silence his son, Tom, is gone, too, dropping out of college to follow a sketchy prophet named Holy Wayne. ![]() Kevin Garvey, Mapleton’s new mayor, wants to speed up the healing process, to bring a sense of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized community. Because nothing has been the same since it happened-not marriages, not friendships, not even the relationships between parents and children. That’s what the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, who lost many of their neighbors, friends and lovers in the event known as the Sudden Departure, have to figure out. ![]() What if-whoosh, right now, with no explanation-a number of us simply vanished? Would some of us collapse? Would others of us go on, one foot in front of the other, as we did before the world turned upside down? ![]()
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![]() ![]() The couples don’t want to admit to an attraction and often have trouble communicating. We get to meet their love interests and see how they each became a couple and more. ![]() ![]() Loathe to Love You consists of three novellas in The STEMinist Novellas series by Ali Hazelwood, connecting the stories of three females who have been best friends since grad school and are now engineers in three different fields. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a collection of steamy, STEMinist novellas featuring a trio of engineers and their loves in loathing-with a special bonus chapter!Īn environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell-a detestable big-oil lawyer who won’t leave the thermostat alone.Ī civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry-and love-to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator.Ī NASA aerospace engineer’s frozen heart melts as she lies injured and stranded at a remote Arctic research station and the only person willing to undertake the dangerous rescue mission is her longtime rival. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes, the only way to start a new life is to die. Along the way, they will face angry sea gods, hostile giants and an evil. Its up to Magnus Chase and his friends to stop Lokis plans. ![]() Now hes readying Naglfar, the Ship of the Dead, armed with a host of giants and zombies, to sail against the Norse gods and begin the final battle of Ragnarok. But he doesn’t have time to consider it all before a fire giant attacks the city, forcing him to choose between his own safety and the lives of hundreds of innocents. Loki the trickster god is free from his chains. Near the end there’s a teaser involving Percy Jackson and his girlfriend Annabeth, presumably pointing to the next book set in Riordan’s multi-mythological world. ![]() Stories about the gods of Asgard, wolves, and Doomsday bubble up from Magnus’s memory. The Ship of the Dead wraps up Magnus Chase’s initial story arc, though I’d expect that some of these characters will make an appearance again in later Riordan books. The more Randolph talks, the more puzzle pieces fall into place. Randolph starts rambling about Norse history and Magnus’s birthright: a weapon that has been lost for thousands years. When Magnus tries to outmaneuver his uncle, he falls right into his clutches. One day, Magnus learns that someone else is trying to track him down-his uncle Randolph, a man his mother had always warned him about. Ever since that terrible night two years ago when his mother told him to run, he has lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, staying one step ahead of the police and truant officers. Magnus Chase has seen his share of trouble. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() T-Diddy Smalls and his harem of bimbos.He Said, She Said is a fun and fresh novel from Kwame Alexander that throws these two high school seniors together when they unexpectedly end up leading the biggest social protest this side of the Mississippi-with a lot of help from Facebook and Twitter. She does not have a minute to waste on Mr. Here’s what Claudia Clarke cares about: Harvard, the poor, the disenfranchised, the hungry, the staggering teen pregnancy rate, investigative journalism … the list goes on. Sparks will fly in this hip-hop-hot teen novel that mixes social protest and star-crossed romance, from Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor winning author Kwame Alexander! He Said, She Said is perfect for fans of Walter Dean Myers and Rachel Vail alike.He says: Omar "T-Diddy" Smalls has got it made-a full football ride to UMiami, hero-worship status at school, and pick of any girl at West Charleston High. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's highly unlikely that the majority of audience members, modern or ancient, would think the jealous slaughter of innocent children is good. Her methods are effective Jason is decimated at the end of the play. In the end, though, revenge is more important to Medea than maternal love, and she kills her children in order "To get at heart" (233). ![]() Sure Jason did Medea wrong, but is killing their kids really the appropriate response? Even Medea recognizes this when she says, "Why damage them in trying to hurt their father?" (173). ![]() Why, oh why did you do it Euripides? What are we to make of Medea's escape? It's doubtful that an audience is supposed agree with Medea when she says she only did what was right. Euripides is infamous for such endings and has been criticized greatly for them. Medea's escape in the dragon chariot given to her by the god Helios is a classic example of deus ex machina. The term translates to "god from the machine" and has come to be used anytime a playwright resolves their play with a sudden surprise ending. Instead of making his heroine pay for her crimes, Euripides saves her using a deus ex machina. Medea commits four murders, the most horrendous being the slaughter of her own children. For one, it defies the conventions of tragedy by letting its protagonist off the hook. It's chock full of contradictions and conundrums. The ending of Medea has caused debate for thousands of years. ![]() ![]() But towards the last few chapters, it felt like the same old story. I realize she covered her whole PCT journey, and so the book’s logical ending was, well, the end of the trail. get married, have two kids, and that’s it. But all I found was her going off to work in Oregon, a rushing of what she did later in life, i.e. This isn’t a bad thing, because most people aren’t going to find themselves in 100 days, but I did expect more self-empowerment or more confidence, more something at the end of the book. And she seemed to end it with some direction, but mostly, still seemed just as lost as when she started the trail. She started off the PCT lost and unsure of what to do with herself, her life, relationships. I’m sure that she felt she grew as a person, and that she found herself on those 1100 miles from the Mojave Desert to the Bridge of the Gods, but I didn’t find her new self alongside her. ![]() However, I didn’t find these explored much in the book. And it was these themes that I was excited about. It’s her form of coming-of-age and finding herself. Wild is Cheryl Strayed‘s memoir of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) on her own after a divorce and her mother’s death. ![]() But on the verge of taking a trip to the Pacific Northwest, I decided to finally read the book, to get into a wilderness mindset. ![]() ![]() ![]() The horse-trough, full of clear fresh water, and the ground below it sprinkled with droppings of fragrant hay, made every horse that passed, prick up his ears. The ruddy sign- board perched up in the tree, with its golden letters winking in the sun, ogled the passer-by, from among the green leaves, like a jolly face, and promised good cheer. ![]() Charles Dickens' description of the Nutmeg-Grater Inn in The Battle of Life is enough to make any weary traveler yearn for such a comfortable respite:Īt such a time, one little roadside Inn, snugly sheltered behind a great elm-tree with a rare seat for idlers encircling its capacious bole, addressed a cheerful front towards the traveller, as a house of entertainment ought, and tempted him with many mute but significant assurances of a comfortable welcome. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shanghai is already at a boiling point: The Nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war brew louder every day, and gangster rule faces complete annihilation. Then a new monstrous danger emerges in the city, and though secrets keep them apart, Juliette must secure Roma’s cooperation if they are to end this threat once and for all. Roma knows it’s his fault for letting the ruthless Juliette back into his life, and he’s determined to set things right-even if that means killing the girl he hates and loves with equal measure. Roma is still reeling from Marshall’s death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.Īfter sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. ![]() It was published November 16th, 2021 by Margaret K. Our Violent Ends is the second book in the These Violent Delights series, written by Chloe Gong. McElderry Books Publication order Previous ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() allows a sense of hope to filter through." -Historical Novels Review This is a memorable story about the courage of Korean women during the Second World War."-Publishers Weekly "Masterfully crafted, Bracht's mesmerizing debut novel is rich with historical detail and depth of emotion. "A psychologically acute, emotionally resonant novel.ich with historical detail, White Chrysanthemum is a compelling and important account of civilian women's lives during wartime."-BookPage A bold, devastating, important novel shot through with hope and beauty."-Rachel Joyce, New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry "I read Hana and Emi's story with my heart in my mouth. "If Min Jin Lee's acclaimed bestseller Pachinko sparked an interest in stories of Korea under Japanese occupation during World War II, here's your next read."-Newsday "A suspenseful and eye-opening historical work reminiscent of Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train, Jamie Ford's Songs of Willow Frost, and Lisa Wingate's Before We Were Yours."-Library Journal (starred) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This would be mean that at least 10^58 human lives could be created in emulation even with quite conservative assumptions about the efficiency of computronium. To run an emulation for 100 subjective years would then require some 10^27 operations. A typical estimate of the computational requirements for running one emulation is 10^18 operations per second. ![]() Alternatively, let us suppose that the computers are used to run human whole brain emulations that live rich and happy lives while interacting with one another in virtual environments. t may take about 10^31-10^44 operations to simulate all neuronal operations that have occurred in the history of life on Earth. “It might not be immediately obvious to some readers why the ability to perform 10^85 computational operations is a big deal. ![]() |