![]() ![]() There is one particularly pathos-filled moment involving North 2, a former military robot now working as a butler for a blind and embittered reclusive composer who is tormented by the strange snatch of song he has stuck in his head. There is so much emotion packed into the writing in this book it's surprising it's not oozing out of the pages. But who exactly would have the means to execute such crimes and not leave even a single trace of evidence behind? There are, however, some humans who are not comfortable at all with robots, particularly those very advanced ones which are indistinguishable from humans, and it appears that someone is determined to destroy all seven. ![]() Set in a world where mechanoid-looking robots, having been granted limited rights, perform many everyday jobs and live harmoniously alongside humans, there are seven well known and almost universally loved robots which are much more advanced than all of the others, although as yet, no robot is known to have developed any true emotional capabilities. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.įor years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. ![]() In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Long hailed as a truly liberating book, daring and uncompromising, Tropic of Cancer is a cornerstone of modern literature that asks us to reconsider everything we know about art, freedom, and morality. When it was first published in the US in 1961, it led to more than 60 obscenity trials until a historic ruling by the Supreme Court defined it as a work of literature. Banned in the US and the UK for more than thirty years because it was considered pornographic, Tropic of Cancer continued to be distributed in France and smuggled into other countries. ![]() Set in Paris in the 1930s, it features a starving American writer who lives a bohemian life among prostitutes, pimps, and artists. Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller’s first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century Tropic of Cancer redefined the novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How many deaths have these birds witnessed? I do not know the span of life that is allotted to a raven, but surely it is possible that some of them were here seven years ago when Anne bared her slender, swanlike neck to the French executioner’s sword. When the workmen pause for their noonday repast, they swoop down and perch upon the burgeoning scaffold, snatching greedily at the morsels of meat and bread and tidbits of yellow cheese proffered by the calloused hands. It does not matter whether I look down or up the sight that meets my eyes is equally grim-carrion birds or the planks that shall soon be stained with my life’s blood. They brush the sawdust from their leather jerkins and woolen hose and go blithely about the business of building the scaffold upon which I shall soon die. Overhead the sleek black ravens circle and caw, while below my window the workmen chat merrily, their voices hale and hearty as they call to one another above the din of hammer and saw. ![]() ![]() It also contains scenes of violence, but don’t worry-they get their happy ending. ![]() ![]() This m/m love story contains explicit content and is not suitable for young readers. ![]() It is the first in a planned post-apocalyptic fantasy series featuring monsters and human men falling in love. Soul Eater is the debut novel of Lily Mayne. And when I’m the only soldier out of hundreds that the Soul Eater leaves alive, I realise that… something about me has intrigued him.īut what is it? What could a twenty-three year old guy from the south, with no one and nothing in the world, have possibly done to capture the attention of a death monster with horns, blackened fingertips and a face hidden in the dark depths of his hood? I’ve only been in the military for six months, but now I’m part of a unit tasked with trying to stop and capture him. He appears every three years, making his way across the country and slaughtering humans randomly, sucking them dry until they’re nothing but husks. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own. One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. A 20k-word novella featuring a brand-new Monstrous couple A super adorable one And you HAVE actually kind of, very briefly, sort of met one of them before or a part of them, at least. ![]() Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization. ![]() ![]() Regardless though, I was feeling this book deep down thanks to the writing. They were people my heart went out to…and a little bit because I’m a mom and the book got to me. BUT I will say that Jennifer Hillier connected me to the characters in such a wonderful way. And it’s a thriller! Who cries reading a thriller? Well, I did, and I can’t really tell you why because that would be a spoiler, and I don’t do that. The writing was excellent! I mean, I cried. I fully enjoyed this book, and I look forward to reading another one by her! Her ability to draw every possible emotion from the reader was impressive. How have I never read a book by Jennifer Hillier?!?! Her writing is amazing! I have NEVER cried while reading a mystery/thriller before. I was completely entranced by it! I loved how I kept thinking I knew where the plot was headed, and then a twist, and I’d be completely off-guard again! Little Secrets was such an amazingly well-written story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike many recent post-apocalyptic and/or dystopian fiction stories, Taken has a male protagonist, and because of that I think it is a book that will appeal to both guys and girls. ![]() Taken had several post-apocalyptic elements that made me experience moments of deja-vu (people disappearing at a certain age, teenagers seeking the truth via rebellion, deceptive authority figures, etc.) yet was original enough in its own telling that I found it to be a compelling story. And the world outside of Claysoot is far different than anything that he has ever experienced. When that secret is uncovered by Gray he has to make a dangerous decision about whether or not to try to leave Claysoot, because as far as he knows anyone who has tried to escape in the past has ended up dead. Gray grieves for the loss of his brother, but then finds a clue that points to evidence of a family secret. Taken begins on the day of Gray’s older brother Blaine’s Heist. Taken is the story of Gray, a boy who lives in the community of Claysoot where all boys are taken away in a mysterious vanishing, called the Heist, on the evening of their eighteenth birthdays. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations-both yesterday and today.Īvailable Februfrom Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print from Little Brown for Young Readers. When 17-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her familys property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. The history of Black Wall Street and the violent events of 1921 in Tulsa, when mobs of white. ![]() When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Stream Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street on HBO Max. ![]() A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. 7 likes, 0 comments - Orion Luminiferous (pitchblackfire) on Instagram: 'I just dropped 2 singles with many more onna way My new slogan is ’Half Human Boy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Israel tells her reader that after the first two books she wrote were so successful, she was not prepared for the failure of her book about Lauder. While the title Can You Ever Forgive Me? suggests that Israel might be sorry for her crimes, the book reveals a writer who appears proud of her ability to fool so many people with her writing skills. Israel talks about the decisions she made leading up to the failure of a book about cosmetic mogul Estée Lauder as well as her opinion of her crimes after she was caught. In the autobiography, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, New York Times best-selling author Lee Israel describes the way she went about forging and stealing letters written by famous personalities as a way to make a living. Can You Ever Forgive Me? Simon and Schuster, August 5, 2008. ![]() The following version of the autobiography was used to create this study guide: Israel, Lee. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jacket with age toning/burning from tape on flaps and front and back panel some rubbing/wear to panels some soiling to panels' sunning to spine some rolling/creasing to top and bottom of pane's light chipping around spine top and bottom. 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