5/24/2023 0 Comments Toil and Trouble by H.P. Mallory![]() ![]() An infuriatingly handsome warlock torn between duty and love. A sexy as sin vampire determined to claim her. The cause? A witch who can reanimate the dead. If you like your books steamy (this is a paranormal romance series for adults, not for kids or teens!) and you appreciate a good witch, warlock and vampire romance triangle, listen on! Toil And Trouble is the second book in the Jolie Wilkins series (witch romance books). Who says blonds have more fun? After defending herself against fairy. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() This experience would bring him in direct contact with Mobutu, the charismatic president who fostered the idea of “authenticity” for the country (which he renamed Zaire) but whose motives and tactics were often questionable. Eventually Youmans would venture deeper into the heart of Congo where there were no medical facilities. When Bull Elephants Fight is both a vivid account of Youmans’ medical experiences and an honest and deeply personal description of an American family’s struggle to embrace a vastly different culture. But slowly and often with amusing results, he and his family began to adjust to life in Congo. ![]() Yet he spoke only the most rudimentary French and considered himself totally unprepared for the problems he would soon face on the wards of the mission hospital to which he had been assigned. Roger Youmans was drawn to the country precisely because of its overwhelming needs. ![]() The medical system had collapsed, and the Congolese people were battling malaria, smallpox, and starvation. Congo at that time had no trained physicians and most of the foreign doctors had fled the country. Synopsis: “When bull elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.” -African proverb Why would a young American doctor abruptly give up a comfortable life in Kansas in order to work in Congo.not once but twice? In 1961 Roger Youmans took his wife and two young daughters with him to work in a country whose people had suffered terribly as a result of tribal warfare and general political upheaval. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Superman jerry siegel joe shuster![]() ![]() Super Boys also tracks the boys’ unknown, often mysterious lives after they left Superman, including Siegel's secret work during World War II and never-before-seen work from Shuster. ![]() Among scores of new discoveries, the book reveals the first stories and pictures ever published by the two, where the first Superman story really came from, the real inspiration for Lois Lane, the template for Superman’s costume, and much, much more. In time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel, comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC Comics superhero Superman and the inspiration for Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clayĭrawing on ten years of research in the trenches of Cleveland libraries, boarded-up high schools, and secret, private collections, and a love of comic books, Brad Ricca's Super Boys is the first ever full biography about Superman’s creators. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Wyn by Lily Mayne![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is best to read this series in order-if you haven’t read books one to three already, there are big spoilers in this! Warning: This m/m love story contains explicit sexual content and is not suitable for young readers. Wyn is a sweet, low-angst novella that is part of the Monstrous series, a post-apocalyptic m/m fantasy series that features monsters and human men falling in love. And when we both decide that his natural human life is nowhere near enough time for us to have together, we go on a journey between worlds to the one place where we can do what it takes for us to be together forever. I will do anything to keep Danny with me for as long as I can have him-for as long as he is willing to stay by the side of an ancient, scarred creature with a voice so inhuman it has sent some mad. For the first time in my unfathomably long life, I know what it means to want another so much that the thought of losing him threatens to ruin me. And I will destroy anyone who tries to hurt him or take him from me. There is only one human who isn’t afraid of me. They have created legends about me, ever since they became aware of my existence when the tear between our worlds grew and we-the monsters from their nightmares-flooded through in our droves. ![]() Most creatures fear me, but humans are repulsed by me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Much of Borges's work can be understood as prefiguring Magic Realism, and in terms of Fantastika in general – he praised very highly the writer generally thought to have initiated the Argentinian fantastic, Leopoldo Lugones, commemorating him in Leopoldo Lugones ( 1955 chap) – though unlike Lugones he cannot be understood as a writer of sf. ![]() Beyond Latin America, he is most influential for his stories, all of which have been conveniently assembled as Collected Fictions (coll trans Andrew Hurley 1998), which includes work from the 1930s until 1980 or later, though almost all of his most famous stories were published in the 1940s his first appearance in English was "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan" (1942 trans Anthony Boucher August 1948 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine as "The Garden of Forking Paths") (for further comments see variously below). (1899-1986) Argentine poet, essayist, librarian and short-story author, a central figure of Latin American literature for the sixty years of his active career, which he pursued solely in Argentina, though he was partly raised in Switzerland and took his university degree there his influence extended through poetry very numerous reviews and seminal essays, which covered almost all of Western literature as well as his fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Taïa explores issues of non-normative sexuality, gender, class and postcolonialism, and his is one of the most important current voices in the francophone Arab world. Taïa has also written and directed a film, Salvation Army (2013), inspired by his early life in Morocco and his migration to Switzerland. His latest novels are Un pays pour mourir (A country to die in 2016) and Celui qui est digne d’être aimé (He who is worthy to be loved 2017). His fictional novel Le jour du roi (The day of the king) was awarded the Prix de Flore in 2010, and his novel Infidels was published by New York publisher Seven Stories in 2016. His autofictional novels Salvation Army and An Arab Melancholia were published by American publisher Semiotext(e) in 20 the same publishing house has recently combined Mon Maroc (My Morocco) and Le rouge du tarbouche (The red of the fez) into a single volume, entitled Another Morocco: Selected Stories, in 2017. He has lived in France since around the turn of the 21st century, where he has written two books of short fiction and six novels in French. ![]() Born in Rabat in 1973, he spent his childhood and early youth in the small coastal Moroccan town of Salé, which features in many of his works. ![]() Abdellah Taïa is the first Moroccan writer to assume his homosexuality publicly. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Snow crash metaverse![]() “The defining quality of the metaverse will be a feeling of presence-like you are right there with another person or in another place,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote, envisioning a creation that would “reach a billion people, host hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce, and support jobs for millions of creators and developers.” By December 2021, a range of other large American technology companies, including Microsoft, Intel, and Qualcomm, had all articulated metaverse plans of their own. ![]() In the company’s presentation of the concept, the metaverse was a thing of wonder: an immersive, rich digital world combining aspects of social media, online gaming, and augmented and virtual reality. Its metamorphosis began in July 2021, when Facebook announced that it would dedicate the next decade to bringing the metaverse to life. ![]() The metaverse, which graduated from a niche term to a household name in less than a year, is an excellent case in point. ![]() I have spent a lot of my career, both in Silicon Valley and beyond, insisting that all our technologies have histories and even pre-histories, and that far from being neat and tidy, those stories are in fact messy, contested, and conflicted, with competing narrators and meanings. ![]() ![]() ![]() She battles a very large, very menacing pig. She fearlessly stands up to local bullies. Granted, no dragons have been breathing fire around Hereville, the Orthodox Jewish community where Mirka lives, but that doesn’t stop the plucky girl from honing her skills. ![]() There’s only one thing she does want: to fight dragons! Spunky, strong-willed eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg isn’t interested in knitting lessons from her stepmother, or how-to-find-a-husband advice from her sister, or you-better-not warnings from her brother. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() God, therefore, was the ultimate mathematician who had founded a vast and complex uni verse of mathematical relationships wherein nature acted according to His perfect and inexorable law. ![]() Later, Renaissance scientists such as Kepler and Galileo held that the true causes of natural phenomena could be formulated in accordance with mathematical laws. Even before Euclid, as demonstrated in the pre-Christian Greek drama, the workings of fate dic tated human experience in the same way as the workings of deductive reason ing dictate rigorous mathematical conclusions. Their interrelationships allow us to perceive, locate, and establish structures in the world - structures that provide physical as well as moral comfort, because once proven they must be forever true. Mathe matical truths are deduced logically and relied upon with complete confi dence. THE CRUEL MATHEMATICS OF THE DUCHESS OF MALFI R IC K B O W E R S University of Alberta Since the time of Euclid, the principles of mathematics have been estab lished as the principles of truth in enlightened European thought. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The terror by dan simmons![]() ![]() Allegedly, whoever found the Passage- a way through the hazardous maze of Arctic islands and icebergs of Northern Canada- would claim exclusive trading routes to Asia although, what was ultimately more important was the prestige associated with being the first to find the Passage. ![]() When Victorian England had no more major wars to fight, after over a decade of skirmishing with Napoleon, the British government turned much of its focus and funds towards exploring the remaining untouched corners of the world- in particular, the much sought-after Northwest Passage. ![]() The fact that Terror was found in the depths of none other than Terror Bay, Nunavut, is another mysterious irony that aligns with the near-legendary reputation of the renowned maritime tragedy. So ended a nearly 200-year-old archaeological search to track down the remains of the vessels that disappeared with the men of the infamous Franklin Expedition. In 2016, two years after the discovery of HMS Erebus, her sister ship, HMS Terror was finally found. ![]() |