Turning mush into metal in time for the big day is Rob’s passion (because even the happiest bride could use a little toning).īut what happens when a guy who’s all mush meets a girl who’s all metal? The closest Rob has come to her “happily ever after” is happy hour at the Mermaid Café with her buddy Bree, the bartender slash waitress who’s got romance problems of her own.īut Rob’s situation suddenly changes when sheriff’s deputy Ryan Martinez accidentally enrolls in her bridal boot camp class. Physical trainer Roberta “Rob” James moved to Little Bridge hoping she’d found paradise, but things haven’t turned out quite as she’d hoped. Welcome to Little Bridge, one of the smallest-and most beautiful-islands in the Florida Keys, home to sandy white beaches, salt-rimmed margaritas, stunning sunsets, and some of the quirkiest-but also kindest and most resourceful-people you’ll ever meet. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot comes the first story in her Little Bridge Island series-which also includes an excerpt from her forthcoming new full-length novel No Judgments!
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The hedges, along which strawberries, raspberries, and violets grow, are adorned with hawthorn, honeysuckle, and brambles whose brown, curving shoots burst forth with magnificent fruits and leaves. The clearings are feathered with tall and elegant ferns the fields of gorse and broom blaze with flowers that one may take at first glance for golden butterflies. The earth is covered over with daisies, pansies, jonquils, daffodils, hyacinths, buttercups, and anemones, like the wastelands around San Giovanni of Laterano and the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in Rome. The five birds that herald its appearance-the swallow, the oriole, the cuckoo, the quail, and the nightingale-arrive with the breezes that refuge in the bays of the Armorican peninsula. “Spring, in Brittany, is milder than spring in Paris, and bursts into flower three weeks earlier. The area has boomed in the last few years with the availability of massive datasets on which to train, improvements in numerical algorithms for training neural networks and the use of GPUs to further accelerate deep learning. This is where the “deep” comes in – it refers to the numbers of layers in the networks. The biggest innovations I see from this book are in the use of pre-trained networks, and the dominance of the Keras/Tensorflow/Python ecosystem in doing deep learning.ĭeep learning is a type of artificial intelligence based on many-layered neural networks. Despite these reviews only spanning a couple of years it feels like the area is moving on rapidly. Deep learning with Python by Francois Chollet is the third book I have reviewed on deep learning neural networks. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.Įducation and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. Let’s start with “Especially Heinous,” the formally bold novella in the center of the book. She graciously corresponded with me for this interview. In Her Body and Other Parties, Machado takes on new forms, blending unlike genres in new ways, and in doing so, changing how this reader conceives of what’s possible. “The Husband Stitch,” the first story in this collection, became a kind of shorthand for the women in my workshop to describe how the nuances of women’s lives are worthy of close examination and depiction how these nuances have the weight of life and death. There’s a satisfaction for women who read Machado at being seen, understood, known. She tackles topics we’re told are off limits (and who decides the limits anyway?!) and she makes them new. She writes them into relationships with women and men–relationships that are casual or serious, healthy or dangerous. Machado writes unapolagetically about women in their bodies. I followed the buzz to Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. Raise your hand if you’ve been told that a queer protagonist will limit your access to a mainstream literary audience. By Kate Tighe-Pigott Raise your hand if you’re a writer who has been chastened away from the subject of sexual violence. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. and yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop. For more than two centuries our forebears labored without wages they made cotton king. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard UniversityĮxcerpt: "Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History, 1513-2008"īefore the pen of Jefferson etched the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence across the pages of history, we were here. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the W.E.B.It's called: "Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008." He's used that same forensic curiosity in his new book, one that takes on the entire sweep of American history. And probably most widely known for his PBS documentaries, " Faces of America" and " African American Lives," that weave together genetics and genealogy to reveal the surprising ancestral stories of renowned black Americans. He's also author of many books on black culture and black history. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. The Harvard professor is the director of the W.E.B. is one of America's most prominent public intellectuals. Facebook Email This article is more than 11 years old. This path-breaking book reveals how caste crushes human creativity and is disturbingly similar to other forms of oppression, such as race, class and gender. As he brings to light the immovable glass ceiling that exists for Dalits even in politics, bureaucracy and judiciary, Yengde provides an unflinchingly honest account of divisions within the Dalit community itself-from their internal caste divisions to the conduct of elite Dalits and their tokenized forms of modern-day untouchability-all operating under the inescapable influences of Brahminical doctrines. He describes his gut-wrenching experiences of growing up in a Dalit basti, the multiple humiliations suffered by Dalits on a daily basis, and their incredible resilience enabled by love and humour. In this explosive book, Suraj Yengde, a first-generation Dalit scholar educated across continents, challenges deep-seated beliefs about caste and unpacks its many layers. ©2009 Richard Kadrey (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc. But when Stark's first stop saddles him with an abusive talking head that belongs to the first of the circle, a sleazy video store owner named Kasabian, Stark discovers that the road to absolution and revenge is much longer than he counted on, and both Heaven and Hell have their own ideas for his future. Sandman Slim has escaped from Hell (where he has been for over a decade) in order to exact revenge on those who killed his lover. The protagonist of the series is James Sandman Slim Stark, a demon-slaying anti-hero and half-angel fugitive. Though nearly everything has changed, one constant remains: his friend Vidocq, a 200-year-old Frenchman who has been keeping vigil for the young magician's return. Sandman Slim is a series of paranormal fantasy novels by American author Richard Kadrey. Armed with a fortune-telling coin, a black bone knife, and an infernal key, Stark is determined to destroy the magic circle - led by the conniving and powerful Mason Faim - that stole his life. Also, it contains a new Sandman Slim story starring Candy https. Now, the hitman who goes only by Stark has escaped and is back in L.A. My new story collection is real (sort of) It’s available for preorder now from Subterranean Press. When he was 19, James Stark was considered to be one of the greatest natural magicians, a reputation that got him demon-snatched and sent downtown - to Hell - where he survived as a gladiator, a sideshow freak entertaining Satan's fallen angels. "It's almost summer, which means Hilderbrand's legions of fans will be anxious for her latest. With Grace gleefully haunting the halls, a staff harboring all kinds of secrets, and Lizbet's own romantic uncertainty, is the Hotel Nantucket destined for success or doom? Filled with the emotional depth and multiple points of view that characterize Hilderbrand's novels ( The Blue Bistro, Golden Girl) as well as an added dash of Roaring Twenties history, The Hotel Nantucket offers something for everyone in this compelling summer drama. The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can't seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. And while the Hotel Nantucket appears to be a blissful paradise, complete with a celebrity chef-run restaurant and an idyllic wellness center, there's a lot of drama behind closed doors. When she's named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. Book Synopsis "The queen of beach reads" ( New York) delivers an immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel. What a fantastic read! An absolute page turner, full of love, laughter and romance Katie Ginger, author of 'Spring Tides at Swallowtail Bay' I was engrossed! Josie Silver, author of bestselling One Day in December Reader, I swooned! Beach Read is the hottest book of the summer - the pages simply sizzle! My heart ached for January, and Gus is to die for - a steamy, smart and perceptive love story. Reichert, author of 'The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go' I cannot wait to read what Henry writes next Amy E. I adored it Julia Whelan, author of 'My Oxford Year'īeach Read has everything the title promises - a romping plot, family secrets, and the thrill of falling in love. If whipcrack banter and foggy sexual tension is your catnip, you'll adore this book Sally Thorne, author of 'The Hating Game'īeach Read is exactly the witty, charming and swoony novel we always want it also happens to be the unexpected wallop of emotional wisdom and sly social commentary we need right now. Original, sparkling bright and layered with feeling. I closed this book with a satisfied sigh Jasmine Guillory, author of 'The Proposal' A touching and heartfelt book about learning how to love again. |