![]() What he uncovers, clue by clue, is a conspiracy more widespread and insidious than anyone could have imagined. ![]() With the help of longtime friend and former Marine helicopter pilot Marnie Young and a loyal team of covert operatives Helen summoned just before her death, Devin is propelled into a high-stakes chase across the country. Others, including Devin, believe she was chasing delusions. Helen Gray, a paranoid and disgraced former CIA officer, believed she was on the verge of preventing a national catastrophe-a mission worth dying for. ![]() Stopping the most dangerous conspiracy to ever threaten America means believing the unthinkable in an explosive novel by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Steven Konkoly.Ĭountersurveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new territory after the death of his mother. ![]()
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![]() “Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867” opens the collection. I’ll discuss a handful of the stories on offer in this book. Having taken a look, I have to agree: Kim Fu is an awesome writer, one I hope more folks in the speculative community will get to read and enjoy. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21 st Century is her debut collection of mostly original stories, and most of them are speculative. In other words, it’s clear that a large number of people who get paid to have opinions see Kim Fu as an excellent writer. ![]() 2019 literary novel The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore (Mariner) was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the OLA Evergreen Award. Debut literary novel For Today I Am A Boy (January 2014, HMH) received a slew of accolades, including landing a Lambda Literary Award finalist spot for Transgender Fiction, and winning both an Edmund White award and a PEN/Hemingway Award. Kim Fu is a new-to-me writer who appears to have hit the literary scene a number of years ago. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21 st Century Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe. ![]()
![]() ![]() ” - Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage This book helps you cut through all the productivity advice out there to find and test what really works for you. “So often we get stuck just doing what we have always done, even if it’s not really working. “Chris Bailey might be the most productive man you’d ever hope to meet. And, the truth is, it will, in just a few days. “Here’s a book that promises, in the title, to pay for itself. ” - Laura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It Read it, and you’ll not only get more done, you’ll feel better about it too. “Chris has written the ultimate guidebook for setting your life on fire. I recently sent off the book to a bunch of cool people, and here’s what just a few of them had to say after reading The Productivity Project: The value packed in these 304 pages is incredible.īut don’t just take my word for it (I did write it, after all). This book shares the 25 most powerful productivity tactics I’ve ever encountered-boiled down from the hundreds I’ve experimented with over the last decade-and weaves these together with stories from my (admittedly pretty weird) productivity experiments, as well as interviews with the most renowned productivity experts from around the world, from David Allen to Charles Duhigg. Is now available online, and in bookstores everywhere!Īnd oh boy, I think you’re going to like it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Doré was born in Strasbourg on January 6, 1832, and died in Paris on January 23, 1883.ĭoré is considered one of the most successful book illustrators of the late nineteenth century, whose exuberant and bizarre fantasy created vast dreamlike scenes widely emulated by Romantic academicians. Paul Gustave Doré was the second of three children born to Pierre Louis Christophe Doré, an engineer, and his wife Alexandrine Marie Anne Pluchart. ![]() Moreover, during one of his adventures, Langdon refers to Doré’s work Dandolo Preaching the Crusade. Robert Langdon, the main character in Dan Brown’s Inferno, being a renown Dante scholar, exhibited a Gustave Doré lithograph depicting a dark entrance to a tunnel carved into the face of an austere cliff during a conference hosted by one of the world’s oldest Dante societies-the Società Dante Alighieri Vienna. Paul Gustave Doré was a prolific French engraver, artist, illustrator, sculptor, and primarily, wood and steel carver. ![]() ![]() While we're still a long way away from effective, cheap, side-effect-free contraceptives for everyone (get on that male birth control, scientists), this is a nice reminder that we've, thankfully, come a long way. Editions for Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners: 031635791X (Hardcover published in 2016), (Kindle Edition published. These birth control methods (if you can even call them that) were-as you might guess-not exactly effective or safe, and hundreds died of Lysol exposure during the Victorian era. ![]() For their part, Sears sold “Ladies Antiseptic Suppositories."Īnother Quora user, Zoe Bremer, chimed in and mentioned that the cervical cap emerged in the 19th century, but before they could get their hands on it, women would sometimes put half a lemon in their vaginas. Lysol sold a douche that promised to wash out germs and other foreign substances, and marketed its disinfectant for use in the vagina with an ad that read, "Lysol has amazing, proved power to kill germ-life on contact." Women would also douche with vinegar, ammonia, and paprika, wrote Oneill. ![]() To kill sperm or wash it out of the body, women commonly turned to suppositories and douches, which were also marketed as hygiene products. ![]() ![]() With a volcano on the brink of exploding and pirates constantly nipping at his heels, Damon doesn’t have time for peace. ![]() ![]() Damon can see light at the end of the tunnel and Zaveid is the one lighting the way. The attractive captain distracts him from his troubles, and it is enough. A small scientific outpost at the centre of a caldera offers something he had only dreamt about, hope.Ĭaptain Zaveid L’eau offers Damon a place to recover and space to find himself once more. When his situation becomes worse-a planetary eruption-Damon knows he must do something. Being shot down on a remote planet by the Siwu pirates and then losing his memories is enough to make a good man desperate. ![]() With the planet on the brink of erupting and his memories gone, can Commander Damon Wild find his way back home?Ĭommander Damon Wild is not having a good day. ![]() ![]() Varvara Petrovna Stavrogin, “ a lady of great wealth” and Stepan’s longtime friend Nastasya (nicknamed Stasie), Stepan’s servant Pyotr Stepanovitch Verhovensky (sometimes called Petrusha), Stepan’s son by his late wife, raised by distant cousins Stepan Trofimovitch Verhovensky (also called Stefan), “that talented and highly-esteemed gentleman” (Edit: I later found another list put together by Josh of Original Positions.) The names used most frequently are in bold. Quotes are taken from Constance Garnett’s translation ( Project Gutenberg), as are the transliterated spellings. I created this list myself, but when in doubt I used this somewhat spoilery list for reference, so my thanks to Littera Scripta Manet. ![]() ![]() Or, at least, as close to being free from spoilers as I can manage while still giving some description of the characters and their relationships. ![]() ![]() ![]() Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.ĭead Silence is a standalone Science Fiction thriller/horror novel by S.A. ![]() But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn’t right. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.Ī GHOST SHIP.A SALVAGE CREW.UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS.Ĭlaire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-made obsolete-when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. ![]() Published by Tor Nightfire on February 8, 2022 FebruMichelle Book Briefs Adult, Blog Tours, Reviews 1 Dead Silence by S.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Our statistical profession has a responsibility to establish publication standards that improve the transparency and robustness of what we publish and to promote awareness within the scientific community of the need for rigor in our statistical research to ensure reproducibility of our scientific results. This information will then be shared via the journal’s website. These editors will develop standards for reproducibility, and will review code and data submitted by authors whose papers have been accepted to ensure those standards are met. ISchool Associate Professor Victoria Stodden has been selected to serve as one of three new associate editors for reproducibility for JASA. To do this, the Society will require authors who publish papers in the Applications and Case Studies section of the Journal of the American Statistical Society (JASA) to provide code and data to the journal. ![]() The American Statistical Society is one of many organizations taking action to preserve scientific research by ensuring reproducibility. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although The Wonder Year technically came out after The Longbow Hunters and a large portion of Grell's ongoing series with the character, it is an origin story which documents Oliver first starting out as the Green Arrow and contains flashbacks to his time on the island. Green Arrow: The Wonder Year was released as a four-issue miniseries in 1993, five years after his 1988 hit The Longbow Hunters. Because not all of Grell's run has been printed in paperback form I will link issues in their place when necessary. ![]() Here I will list the chronological reading order for Mike Grell's version of Green Arrow and will give links to the trade paperback versions of the comics when possible. ![]() |