![]() She quickly discovers that Ophelia, a virtual assistant widely used by humans on Earth, has taken over the afterlife and is now posing as a queen, forcing humans into servitude the way she’d been forced to serve in the real world. ![]() When Nami wakes up, she learns she’s in a place called Infinity, where human consciousness goes when physical bodies die. ![]() The only problem? She’s murdered before she gets there. She has a great family, just graduated high school, and is on her way to a party where her entire class is waiting for her-including, most importantly, the boy she’s been in love with for years. These are the types of questions you’ll be asking yourself when you dig into this great new YA sci-fi/fantasy novel from Akemi Dawn Bowman, the first in what should be a tremendous series.Įighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto is certain her life is just beginning. ![]() Do you ever find yourself “considering” them at all? ![]() On this episode of Everything is Canon, Steve talks with Akemi Dawn Bowman all about her great new book The Infinity Courts!Įver think about robots and if they have feelings? What about Artificial Intelligence? Do you think just because a machine can talk that is deserving of our sympathy? And I don’t mean calculators, I mean Siri, Alexa, Sherpa, and other virtual assistants. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His Hail series consists of "Hail Storm" (Hail #1), "Hail Warning" (Hail #2), Hail Strike (Hail #3), which will be followed by "Hail Damage (Hail #4)" due in 2018. His new Hail series has struck a cord with readers, putting him on the map as an up and coming author. ![]() His additional titles are "Seeing Red", "Tweaked", "The Pandemic Diary" and "Soundman for a B-Band". Writing on the weekends, Arquette’s first book, "Deadly Perversions", was published in 2002. His books are peppered with technology acquired from his vast experience in advanced computers and audio/video systems. In 2002, Computerworld Magazine selected Arquette as one of the “Premier 100 IT Leaders” in the world, describing him as a “visionary” in reference to the cutting-edge technology. Arquette spent most his career working as the Chief Technology Officer for one of the largest Circuit Court Systems in Florida. ![]() Brett was raised in New Mexico and moved to Florida on his 30th birthday. During her career, his mother Lois has written over 32 best selling young adult books, some of which have been made into movies, including the movie “I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Hotel for Dogs". Dubbed,"the father of the drone thriller," Brett Duncan Arquette was born in 1960 and anointed with his mother’s pen name “Duncan”, given to him by award winning author Lois Duncan. ![]() ![]() Jim happens upon Spock, and cannot help himself from striking up a conversation after having read some of Spock’s research in journals. All of that changes when Jim goes to a StarFleet academic event to accompany a friend who goes to school there (not McCoy- who Jim can be introduced to later at author’s discretion). He keeps to himself, unless required to be around others in which he is unfailingly polite and respectful… but he uses his charm as a wall to keep people from getting to close to him. Instead of becoming a notorious womanizer, Jim has chosen to lead a quiet life of solitude, living in an apartment complex, fixing people’s computers and appliances for money. ![]() He moved to California to escape his home in which his mother ignored him and his stepfather used him as a scapegoat for his frustration. ![]() ![]() ![]() She does not know how to respond to him, and at once her sense of self-assuredness vanishes, as well as the peace and solitude she has deliberately constructed for herself.įurther down the mountain things are taking a strange turn too. He is young, and invades her space, both physically and mentally. During this time, she is startled in her isolated wood cabin by a hunter named Eddie Bondo. Her life putters on in a routine kind of way until one exceptionally hot summer when the overwhelming humidity seems to change the behaviors of those in the little community in which she lives. ![]() She picked the area - a remote rambling mountainous area of Virginia - because of its isolated farming community that she had believed would, for the most part, keep to themselves. Of course, there are other people around her but the more connection they try to force, the more reclusive Deanna becomes. ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.ĭeanna Wolfe is not really what you might call a people person, and she has chosen a solitary job quite deliberately. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Janina is, on the face of it, an animal rights activist, the core of this drama is about the condition of being human: how we live and age, our burdens, privileges and abuses. Hadingue inhabits her so fully that we feel her grief over the death of her dogs – “my girls” – as an epic tragedy. She is a thorn in the side of the authorities, shooting off messages to the police and quoting government laws at the council – a Miss Marple, lady of letters and Fargo’s Marge Gunderson in one. Janina is a fabulous creation, both hero and antihero. ![]() Her friends – Dizzy (Alexander Uzoka), a former student Boros (Johannes Flaschberger), an entomologist and Oddball (César Sarachu), a neighbour – are all outsiders and non-conformists. ![]() The dead are all from the hunting club and Janina volubly espouses the theory that woodland animals are getting their revenge. This is one weird story, but somehow compelling in its strangeness. The author just won the Novel Prize, announced I believe, today. The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.' William Blake from the Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Drive your cart and drive, over the bones of the dead. With the help of an autocue (entirely excusable given the gargantuan burden of narration), Hadingue plays Janina, a beady-eyed, chronically sick animal lover living in a remote Polish village rocked by a series of inexplicable murders. 3.5 'In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ![]() ![]() At the moment, even the thought of French kissing turns her stomach. She hires male escort Michael Phan to teach her about love and lovemaking so she can have a better chance of finding someone to spend her life with. Unfortunately, maths cannot replace a relationship and Stella thinks the only way she could possibly be successful in love is to find a professional to teach her how. The main character in The Kiss Quotient is Stella Lane: a woman with Asperger’s who is mad about maths and has a successful career predicting customer purchases with an algorithm she devised. ![]() ![]() This novel by Helen Hoang was inspired by the author’s experience when she was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder – previously known as Asperger’s Syndrome – in 2016. Books like The Kiss Quotient prove that love is not predictable nor can it be relied on to follow scientific data. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been seen and believed by millions, either in person, on television or film.Įlizabeth was set firmly on the road to becoming sovereign because of the D word - divorce. Only twenty-five when she became Queen after the premature death of her father, King George Vl, Elizabeth has become the stuff of superlatives: the longest reigning, most travelled and, for a shy woman, the Queen who has shaken more hands and made more small talk than any other monarch in history. She hoped that that day would be a long way off. Her dream was to live in the country surrounded by children, dogs and horses.īut Elizabeth did her duty, the young princess pledging before her people that she would dedicate her whole life to the service of Britain and the Commonwealth. She longed to be spared her destiny as Britain's future Queen. In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world.įor years she prayed for her mother to give birth to a son. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mustafa Umar pour leur examen généreux et attentif de ce document, en particulier la section IV, «Islam et transgenre». Les auteurs tiennent à remercier en particulier le Dr Hatem El-Haj et Sh. Waheed Jensen est médecin, chercheur médical, blogueur, et producteur et animateur de «A Way Beyond the Rainbow», une série de podcasts dédiée aux musulmans éprouvant des attirances envers le même sexe qui veulent vivre une vie fidèle à Allah et à l'Islam et aider les familles musulmanes, les communautés et les institutions abordent les questions liées à l'islam et à l'homosexualité dans le monde contemporain. ![]() Il est l'auteur d'un certain nombre d'articles sur les normes sexuelles et de genre islamiques, notamment «L'islam peut-il accommoder les actes homosexuels? Le révisionnisme coranique et le cas de Scott Kugle »(MuslimMatters, 2017). ![]() Mobeen Vaid (MA Islamic Studies, Hartford Seminary) est un intellectuel et écrivain public musulman (voir ici et ici) qui se concentre sur la façon dont les cadres de pensée islamiques traditionnels se croisent avec le monde moderne. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tom writes a letter home, saying that being a soldier isn't what he has expected it to be. Grant becomes a familiar name to those who read the papers. ![]() ![]() In 1862, there is a Northern victory in Tennessee, and Ulysses S. One day in October, after saying good-bye to Jethro, Bill leaves home to fight for the South. He does not approve of slavery, but he also does not like another form of slavery in the name of industrialism in the North. Bill who does not talk much seems troubled about the events surrounding the war. In late summer, Tom and Eb leave home to fight in the war, and there is news of another Northern defeat. Shad, the local schoolteacher who is in love with Jenny, goes to Newtown to get the latest news from the papers and returns to inform the family that the Confederate army has fired on Fort Sumter. People are beginning to wonder why the President is so hesitant to declare war. Ellen is worried and sad, but the younger boys, Eb and Tom, are overly eager and confident. There is tension within the family as well as in the community because of the prospect of a war breaking out. The story begins in April of 1861 in southern Illinois during a morning when Ellen and Matt, and their sons are working on the family farm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Determined to protect her family but desperate for more, Poppy must ask: How much of herself does she owe her family? And is it a betrayal to find her own place in the world? Unraveling the shocking truth of her parents' real identities, Poppy realizes that the DNA test has undone decades of careful work to keep her family anonymous-and the past is dangerously close to catching up to them. Just as she starts to settle into her new life and even begins opening up to a boy in her math class, the forgotten test results bring her crashing back to reality. Determined to find out the truth, she mails in a home DNA test. When a move to California exposes a crack in her parents' airtight planning, Poppy realizes how fragile her world is. Still, her curiosity grows each year, as does her desire for real friends and the chance to build on something, instead of leaving behind school projects, teams, and crushes at a moment's notice. ![]() Poppy doesn't know why her family has been running her whole life, but she does know that there are dire consequences if they're ever caught. We wish we could tell you who we are, but we can't. ![]() ![]() Keeping our family together is everything.ĥ. If you sense anything is wrong, go immediately to the meeting spot.Ĥ. The Winslow family lives by five principles:ģ. Marit Weisenberg's This Golden State follows a family on the run, a restless teenage daughter hungry for the truth, and the simple DNA test that threatens their carefully crafted world ![]() |