![]() ![]() I always knew I loved to write, but it took me a long time to summon the courage to chase the dream. I come from a long line of Irish storytellers on my father’s side and theatre people on my mother’s. What prepared me for a life of writing fiction? Though I have a BA from Brandeis University in English and American Literature and a BFA in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design, the true answer is probably genes. I love the crazy fun and infinite possibility of storytelling. ![]() I love when characters come to me out of nowhere and make me cry so hard my mascara runs or laugh until my stomach hurts. I love to slip into another person’s skin and feel what it’s like to live another life. I love words, dictionaries, thesauruses, sharp pencils, the smell of book ink and the delicious art of carving out sentences on clean white paper. ![]() There’s a Lego in my bum which fits with the Lego in my chair and when I sit down to write, I hear the satisfying snap of the two pieces fitting together. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Christina lauren beautiful series![]() ![]() And a lesson in chemistry too scandalous for school. Thousands of miles from London, it’s easy for the lovers to play pretend. by Christina Lauren (Author) (5,262) In the third book in the Beautiful Bastard series, an agreement between a venture capitalist and a bookish woman quickly becomes a very NSFW version of My Fair Lady. Once she makes it her mission to help the sexy Brit loosen his tie, there’s no turning back. But even he knows outgoing California-girl Ruby is a breath of fresh air. Not one for letting loose and breaking rules, recently divorced Niall would describe himself as hopeless when it comes to women. Despite her ongoing crush, Ruby is certain Niall barely knows she’s alive…until their flirty overnight flight makes him sit up and take notice. ![]() ![]() The part that’s throwing her is where she’ll be spending a month up close and personal working alongside-and staying in a hotel with-Niall Stella, her firm’s top urban planning executive and The Hottest Man Alive. As one of the best and brightest young engineers in London, she knows she’s professionally up to the task. Book 1 of The Beautiful Series By Christina Lauren Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 17. When Ruby Miller’s boss announces he’s sending her on an extended business trip to New York City, she’s shocked. Christina Lauren is actually the pen name of two writing partners Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings who have been writing adult fiction, young adult, and romance novels together since. ![]() New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author Christina Lauren’s Beautiful and Wild Seasons series hook up in Beautiful Secret for an erotic intercontinental romp that celebrates the best of both worlds! ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Egan permutation city![]() ![]() What characterizes one point in space, for one instant? Just the values of the fundamental particle fields, just a handful of numbers. A cloud of microscopic events, like fragments of space-time … except that there is no space or time. Imagine a universe entirely without structure, without shape, without connections. Somehow - on their own terms - the pieces remained connected. He’d been taken apart like a jigsaw puzzle - but his dissection and shuffling were transparent to him. Yet the pattern of his awareness remained perfectly intact: somehow he found himself, “assembled himself” from these scrambled fragments. ![]() To an outside observer, these ten seconds had been ground up into ten thousand uncorrelated moments and scattered throughout real time - and in model time, the outside world had suffered an equivalent fate. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Star Trek by Diane Carey![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() His writing has been celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, having attracted a number of prestigious awards, and his international renown is clearly on the ascendancy as his works find their way into ever more translations. Neuman has written nearly 20 distinct works, including four novels, nine books of poetry (a tenth compiles them), four short story collections, a book of essays, and a book of aphorisms (in addition to his translations of German poet Wilhelm Müller). Its author, Andrés Neuman, is a young Argentinian writer, born in 1977, whose relative youth is belied by a remarkably prodigious literary output. Traveler of the Century is an exquisite, dazzling work of fiction. ![]() ![]() Now, detectives Amanda Beck and Pete Willis must find the boy before it is too late, even if that means Pete has to revisit his great foe in prison: The Whisper Man. His disappearance bears an unnerving resemblance to Frank Carter's crimes, reigniting old rumors that he preyed with an accomplice. Just as Tom and Jake settle into their new home, a young boy vanishes. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed "The Whisper Man," for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. ![]() A new beginning, a new house, a new town: Featherbank.īut Featherbank has a dark past. ![]() In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town.Īfter the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The trial of apollo book 1![]() ![]() Also included is a bonus poster of the key locations and characters in the series.įrom The Hidden Oracle to the long awaited The Tower of Nero, this collection will thrill loyal readers and be a go-to gift for new fans of the best-selling series. ![]() In order to regain his place on Mount Olympus, Lester must restore five Oracles that have gone dark. ![]() Now readers from 8 to 80 can enjoy it from start to finish and then keep the handsome box on their shelf for posterity. Theres only one way he can earn back Zeus favour, and thats to seek and restore the ancient oracles but thats easier said than done. The Hidden Oracle (2016) is the first installment in Rick Riordan’s The Trials of Apollo, a five-book fantasy series for young readers. Winner for Best Middle Grade & Childrens (2018) The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. Rick Riordan's beloved Greek and Roman demigod characters from Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the Heroes of Olympus return in a five-book adventure quest with a fresh twist: they're helping Apollo regain his immortal status.Īpollo's fast-paced, monster-filled quest brings the Percy Jackson chronicles to an end. All five books in the best-selling Trials of Apollo series are now available in a paperback boxed set complete with a bonus poster.Ī clash of mythic intrigues and centuries of pop culture to thrill die-hard and new fans alike.-Kirkus Reviews ![]() ![]() Configure the learning process by picking a loss function, an optimizer, and some metrics to monitor ![]() Define a network of layers (a "model") that will map your inputs to your targets Slightly reduces the loss on this batch The typical Keras workflow: - Define your training data: input tensors and target tensors update all weights of the network in a way that compute the "loss" of the network on the batch,Ī measure of the mismatch between y_pred and y run the network on x (this is called "forward pass"), obtain predictions y_pred it's data type How do we sometimes call axis 0? sample or batch axis What four steps does training loop consist of? - draw a batch of training samples x and corresponding targets y By which three attributes tensor is defined? - the number of axes it has ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The end of faith by sam harris![]() ![]() ![]() But his central case, that a chain of beliefs can lead one to strange and dangerous conclusions, might apply equally to his own book." - David Honigmann, Financial Times
5/23/2023 0 Comments Nick morgan can you hear me![]() ![]() His book on authentic communications, Trust Me, was published by Jossey-Bass in January 2009. His acclaimed book on public speaking, Working the Room: How to Move People to Action through Audience-Centered Speaking, was published by Harvard in 2003 and reprinted in paperback in 2005 as Give Your Speech, Change the World: How to Move Your Audience to Action. Nick’s methods, which are well-known for challenging conventional thinking, have been published worldwide. During the last election cycle, he provided expert commentary on the presidential debates for CNN. And he has himself spoken, led conferences, and moderated panels at venues around the world. He has worked widely with political and educational leaders. He has coached people to give Congressional testimony, to appear in the media, and to deliver unforgettable TED talks. He has been commissioned by Fortune 50 companies to write for many CEOs and presidents. A passionate teacher, he is committed to helping people find clarity in their thinking and ideas – and then delivering them with panache. Nick Morgan is one of America’s top communication speakers, theorists, and coaches. ![]() |