![]() ![]() When paparazzi blast their private business into the public eye, Dev is happy to engage in some friendly fake dating to calm the gossips and to dazzle her family. Especially once he starts to suspect who might have used his famous name to catfish her… ![]() As much as he’d like to focus on his Hollywood fresh start, he can’t get Jia out of his head. The son of a powerful Bollywood family, soap opera star Dev Dixit is used to drama, but a strange woman who accuses him of wooing her online, well, that’s a new one. There’s just one wrinkle: he has no idea who she is. She has little time for love, and even less time for the men in her private messages-until the day a certain international superstar slides into her DMs, and she falls hard and fast. The author of The Right Swipe and Girl Gone Viral returns with a story about finding love in all the wrong inboxes.īeauty expert and influencer Jia Ahmed has her eye on the prize: conquering the internet today, the entire makeup industry tomorrow, and finally, finally proving herself to her big opinionated family. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Programmers were brought on-site without telling them why the enumerations are being printed. These permutations are printed & painstakingly filed on paper. Now they think the computers can speed the job up - from several more centuries to a few months.Ī computer that sounds like a mainframe is brought, along with 2 programmers for 3 months. Monks have been doing this permutation writing for 3 centuries. When a correct name is spelled, the universe we know will lose meaning. Problem is to write down all permutations of characters meeting these criteria. And no more than 3 consecutive occurrences of the same letter are permitted. They know the written real names of god will be exactly 9 letters long - letters drawn from their special alphabet. Some monks in a monastery in Tibet have been researching the real names of God for 3 centuries - apparently, the familiar names of god are not good enough. ![]() I haven't seen either of online versions, but quick skimming of text version suggests it's the story I read. Full text of this story is available online (link via Best Science Fiction Stories), as also is an MP3 version (link via SF Signal & Free SF Reader). ![]() ![]() ![]() She moved to California to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and after graduation with a B.A in English in 1938, studied at the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she earned a degree in librarianship in 1939. Thereafter, she was a frequent visitor to the library, though she rarely found the books she most wanted to read - those about children like herself. ![]() ![]() It wasn't until she was in third grade that she found enjoyment from books, when she started reading The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins. She was slow in learning to read, due partly to her dissatisfaction with the books she was required to read and partly to an unpleasant first grade teacher. When she was 6, her family moved to Portland, Oregon, where she went to grammar and high school. Mouse.īeverly Cleary was born Beverly Atlee Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon. Some of her best known and loved characters are Ramona Quimby and her sister Beatrice ("Beezus"), Henry Huggins, and Ralph S. ![]() Her characters are normal children facing challenges that many of us face growing up, and her stories are liberally laced with humour. Beverly Cleary (ApMarch 25, 2021) was the author of over 30 books for young adults and children. ![]() ![]() ![]() And there were too many situations throughout that just didn't seem that believable to me - like how they constantly managed to thwart the military and the weepers, not to mention how they miraculously always came upon their loved ones as weepers, whether running loose in the wasteland or caged by the military. Kids upturning a government by simply showing a video of testimonials? Sounds like the rebellion was gonna take off regardless. ![]() I really loved the first novel, but the follow-up fell flat for me. It's not like you need to simply raid the grocery store for some oregano and powdered mushrooms. Even if you scratch that lovely quality control and say the hell with sterility - which of course, you would here - it would still be a phenomenal feat to find everything you need and get it done. I've worked in biotech and pharmaceutical. The Microbiologist in me would love to know how a guy managed to reverse engineer a drug he wasn't familiar with and quantify that drug with no real supplies or lab equipment. I had many issues with this novel, but I'll just mention the main one for me. ![]() ![]() Read more Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions that go to the heart of why teams-even the best ones-often struggle. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. ![]() The blockbuster bestseller now in a manga edition-fully illustrated and fun to read! Beautifully illustrated by Kensuke Okabayashi, this enthralling edition of Patrick Lencioni's massive bestseller gives readers a new format in which to understand the fascinating, complex world of teams. His insights are both groundbreaking and simple, and they are presented in a way that can be applied in any organisation - immediately. ![]() This is the illustrated edition of The Five Dysfunctions of A Team by Patrick Lencioni who provides a powerful theory about the five behaviours that corrupt teams. ![]() Description for The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Manga Edition: An Illustrated Leadership Fable Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry-or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. From the author of The Perfect Find, this is a witty, romantic, and sexy-as-hell new novel of two writers and their second chance at love.īrooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget and seven days to get it all back again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Xander and I have known each other for years, so this should be a breeze. Going undercover has never been an issue in the past, so I don’t see why there’d be a problem now. I mean, I’m allowed to give him a hard time about it, but when some creep decides to cross the line and go after him, they’re gonna have to answer to me. It must be so hard to be Alexander Thorne, the number one prime-time news anchor in the country, with millions of dollars and a car that costs more than my house. Now, not only do I have a bodyguard, I also have a fake boyfriend. I only wanted the name of a bodyguard I didn’t expect for Sean to volunteer for the job. ![]() He also happens to be the best they have, which is why I find myself on his doorstep the night my life is threatened by an anonymous stalker. The older brother of my life-long best friend, Sean is a detective for the Chicago PD, and is also known as Detective “Dick” for being…well, a surly, temperamental pain in everyone’s ass. ![]() ![]() Never in that equation would I ever include the word boyfriend-and not just because he’s straight. If I had to describe Sean Bailey, it would be: a surly, temperamental pain in my ass. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We now know how to read a few sparse details in a 280-character paragraph and put them together: this reads rather like a tweet, something a clever, deadpan literary person might punt out of a morning to give us all a laugh and a shiver of fond recognition. Which should be a hopelessly cryptic way to start a novel, but social media has educated us since 2014. This stage can be described only by a Japanese word. There are stages and she is in the second to last, she thinks. Weather is barely novella-length and opens: “In the morning, the one who is mostly enlightened comes in. Six years later, Knausgård and Cusk have finished their sequences of novels autofiction is so well established that it is being attacked for its solipsism and Offill has finally sculpted another book, this time in even shorter paragraphs. It was sold as “not so much a novel as the X-ray of one”. Unlike Cusk’s inquiry into other people’s stories or Knausgård’s famously expansive recollections, though, Offill’s book was dramatically pared down to taut, tight paragraphs trapped in the present tense, each packed with quirky observation and fantastic one liners. ![]() Like Rachel Cusk’s Outline or Karl Ove Knausgård’s Boyhood, published in English in the same year, this was autofiction: a novel that blurred the boundaries with memoir. of Speculation was greeted as a new sort of writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although Elizabeth spent several years without seeing her father and his new family, her older brother John often visited her in Knutsford. Her father married Catherine Thomson in 1814 and they had a son, William (born 1815), and a daughter, Catherine (born 1816). While she was growing up Elizabeth's future was uncertain, as she had no personal wealth and no firm home, though she was a permanent guest at her aunt and grandparents' house. After she died 13 months after giving birth to her youngest daughter, she left a bewildered husband who saw no alternative for Elizabeth but to be sent to live with her mother's sister, Hannah Lumb, in Knutsford, Cheshire. ![]() His wife, Elizabeth Holland, came from a family from the English Midlands that was connected with other prominent Unitarian families, including the Wedgwoods, the Turners and the Darwins. ![]() That position did not materialise, however, and instead Stevenson was nominated Keeper of the Treasury Records. Her father, William Stevenson, was a Scottish Unitarian minister at Failsworth, Lancashire, but resigned his orders on conscientious grounds and moved to London in 1806 with the intention of going to India after he was appointed private secretary to the Earl of Lauderdale, who was to become Governor General of India. ![]() She was the youngest of eight children only she and her brother John survived infancy. Gaskell was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on September 29, 1810 at 93 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whoever did this to me should have known I?d pick at it until it bled. ![]() Someone messed with me and no matter how often I?m told to forget it and move on as Torin?s mate, there?s no way I can. Funny how quickly dreams turn into nightmares.I?m being lied to and missing weeks and months of time. ![]() Of course, that dream existed before my father betrayed the pack and turned me into their punching bag.I?d all but given up, until a quirk of true mate genetics gifted me a true mate like no other.It seems my childhood dreams were finally a reality. So why does it taste like ash on my tongue?Growing up in Torma, the strongest of the shifter packs, I wanted nothing more than to find my true mate and live my best life. The epic conclusion to the Shadow Beast Shifters.I finally have the life I always dreamed of. ![]() |