![]() ![]() ![]() And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he's never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. I've seen someone who shouldn't be alive. So I've sworn him off, even though he's running more hot than cold these days. If I don't kill him first, that is.ĭaemon's determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. Turns out he has a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal his abilities and the only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to him until my alien mojo fades. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, he marks me. And with his looming height and eerie green eyes, he's hot…until he opens his mouth. Also includes bonus content exclusive to the print edition! "A thrilling ride from start to finish," says RT Book Reviews. Lynn) of Books: 5 (Obsidian, Onyx, Opal, Origin, Opposition). Now available together for the first time, don't miss Obsidian and Onyx, the first two books in Jennifer L. SERIESous’ Top Book Series: Favourite Author Author: Jennifer L. ![]()
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![]() ![]() No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when-or if-it will go away.ĭale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens-town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. ![]() Don’t miss the “harrowing” ( The Washington Post) #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from master storyteller Stephen King that inspired the hit television series, following the apocalyptic scenario of a town cut off from the rest of the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We watch as the pleasures of summer-evening stoop-sitting are shattered by the arrival of a carful of cops looking to serve a warrant we watch-and can’t help but be shocked-as teenagers teach their younger siblings and cousins how to run from the police (and, crucially, to keep away from friends and family so they can stay hidden) and we see, over and over, the relentless toll that the presumption of criminality takes on families-and futures. All find the web of presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance-some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. ![]() Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives-family, relationships, jobs-into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences.Īlice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. 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In a chilling ghost story that is also an insightful family drama, Molly, 12, and her brother Michael, 10, are wary of their sneaky seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn spins a suspenseful yarn about two children who dislike their malicious younger stepsister, Heather-and tensions that escalate when Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yesterday, I reviewed Open Fire for The Pirate Tree, and today, Amber has come onto the blog to talk about her inspiration for the book, her research process, and what it means to write about war and revolution in our current situation. Her protagonist, Katya, enlists in the First Russian Women’s Battalion of Death commanded by Maria Bochkareva and goes from making grenades at a munitions factory to launching them at German soldiers on the Eastern Front of World War I. For the tsar and his supporters, it was the chaotic and violent end of an era, but for for revolutionaries of various stripes - communists, democrats, supporters of women’s suffrage and equality - the chaos of the present raised hopes for a better future.Īmber Lough captures that fateful year in Russia in all its complexity, confusion, and peril in her new historical novel Open Fire. Russia in 1917 was a difficult place to be, with losses on the World War I battlefield and revolution at home. We currently live in a time of great danger, but books set in the past show us that we’re not the only ones to experience danger and societal upheaval. We can travel to places that no longer exist or that were very different years ago. ![]() Armchair Traveler Through Time: An Interview with Amber LoughĪs armchair travelers during this pandemic, we visit faraway places through books - not only real places but also ones imagined, full of magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() The movie stars Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, and Jai Courtney. The first “Divergent” film in the series was released in 2014, directed by Neil Burger, and based on the novel by Veronica Roth. Divergent Movies in Order of Release Date ![]() So, here we are with all the “Divergent” movies for you so that you don’t miss them by any chance. Even though there are some flaws, overall, the “Divergent” series is an excellent choice for entertainment! If you love suspenseful movies, you’ll love the “Divergent” series! The moral of the story is that you should follow your heart. The three movies consist of sci-fi action films set in a dystopian society: Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. The “Divergent” film narrates the story of Tris, who is one of the divers and has to fight to leave the city so that she can find out what happened. ![]() The series is a thrilling dystopian narrative with electrifying choices, dramatic consequences, unexpected love, and a deeply flawed “perfect society.” The “Divergent” trilogy is based on the books by American author Veronica Roth. Are you looking for a fantastic dystopian film series that explores the secrets of the dystopian world? Then look no further than the “Divergent” movie series. ![]() ![]() ![]() What are you putting together from the book? Plus the whole thing packed flat and played big! I took the whole act to the venue in a cigar box! Plus I carried a very elegant (and no longer made), single leg, Owen’s side table (breaks down to almost nothing). It was a quick, visual, fairly simple, and magical act. The only thing I added was to the Misers Dream where I ended with two fans of paper bills (stage 100’s). ![]() I felt that it must be what an old night club restaurant show might have been like.Īny way, I did the glass production to Misers Dream, Corncob pipes (talked myself back into that one!), and the Egg Bag (Benson) right from the book. There was plenty of booze at the event (booze makes people give more?) and people were eating during the program. There were several performers each given just a few minutes to do their bit.Ī couple of musicians (folk-singers), a ventriloquist (very funny using a pig figure!), an illusionist that did one big illusion (mini-tube-zag) and a torn and restored newspaper (his beautiful assistant made the act!), two comedians (one was actually very funny), and me right in the middle of it all. There was a small, elevated platform at one end of the room. I performed at a fundraiser last night with maybe 500 people at a sit down dinner. I would like to hear your unvarnished views. ![]() Bob and Turk, OK guys, what do you think? Did you actually take a routine from the book and use it yet? Do you have any favorite trick from those pages yet? Any tricks that you think suck? ![]() ![]() ![]() The author has been reading ever since she got familiar with writing herself when she was 12 years old. She has a fear of spiders and thinks that books are so important that they essentially equal life. When not busy spending quality time clinging to her husband, she can usually be discovered with some type of snack (chocolate) and holding a book to read.Įrica is not only in love with animals and obsessed with the genre of romance! She also loves hanging out close to the ocean, drawing as a hobby, teasing her husband, and thinking about what life would be like on different planets. ![]() She is frequently writing and when she is not doing that she is spending time with her husband. She resides in Norway, sharing her home with her pets, which include two cats. Erica Woods is a published author of fiction.Įrica identifies herself as loving all types of animals and being addicted to coffee and chocolate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Provided with this high-level knowledge you can then choose the right implementation. Instead, the book teaches you the broad categories of tools and technologies, their trade-offs, and how to combine them to a complete system. It only briefly mentions concrete implementations (of, say, a database or message broker), because the tech changes rapidly, and no book could ever keep up. The goal of the book is to help the target audience understand the different basic principles of storing, transmitting, processing and querying data. Goal of the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications These problems generally imply that data needs to be stored (and processed) in a distributed fashion. This could mean that you need to store large amounts of data (including high throughput), or that the data has high complexity, or that the data changes at fast speeds. In contrast to compute-intensive applications, where CPU cycles are the primary concern, the term data-intensive applications refers to systems where data is the primary concern. This book targets software engineers and architects interested in building distributed systems. Goal of the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications. ![]() |