5/13/2023 0 Comments The sun down motel simone st james![]() ![]() The allure of learning the truth about the case from the smart, charming Beth is too much to resist, but even as they grow closer, Shea senses something isn't right. Items move when she's not looking, and she could swear she's seen a girl outside the window. They meet regularly at Beth's mansion, though Shea is never comfortable there. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases-a passion fueled by the attempted abduction she escaped as a child. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion. ![]() ![]() Beth Greer was the perfect suspect-a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire![]() ![]() The books quality was great the way it arrived was in like new. So we’re both having a double learning experience with this one and loving the book. ![]() □ Our family’s from Onaga and we’ve gotten hit by Tornadoes several times so the story of Dorothy and Toto is Canon for us and my son knows the book from start to finish but now that he’s reading at a level mature enough alas he’s a 6th grader reading at a 9th grade level, I knew I’d worried but not if I’d be reading with him and having fun with him. I bought this for my 12 year old who grew up with the original stories, also grew up going to Wamego-where they shot the original movie and today right before you go in, right across the street/railroad tracks to go in to town you cross Dorothy’s house and you see The WWOTW feet hanging out from underneath the house. Son of a Witch is a masterpiece and the man that wrote this piece of art is but a genius. To those who love the story that follows further from the yellow brick road and further with the Wicked Witch if the West, this is the story of her son. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Catch me by lisa gardner![]() ![]() Gardner ( Crash & Burn, 2015, etc.) must walk a fine line in accurately evoking the horrors of Flora’s past ordeals without slipping into excessive descriptions of violence she is not entirely successful. Now back in Boston and schooled in self-defense, Flora is obsessed with kidnapped girls and the nature of survival, a topic she touches on a bit more than necessary in the many flashbacks to her time in captivity. A kidnapping survivor–turned-vigilante tries to save another young woman while the police do everything they can to save them both.įlora Dane might look unscathed but she’s permanently scarred from having been abducted while on spring break in Florida seven years earlier by Jacob Ness, a sadistic trucker who held her captive for 472 days, keeping her in a coffin for much of the time when he wasn't forcing her to have sex with him. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The illustrated man stories![]() ![]() Willie then stares at another illustration and becomes, along with Carl and two other men, part of a crew of shipwrecked astronauts stranded on a small planet where it rains incessantly. Returning to reality, Willie listens raptly to Carl's tale of how Felicia seduced him into subjecting himself to her tattoo needles. Upon hearing the children scream, Carl and Felicia race into the nursery and are devoured by the lions. Disturbed that the children have chosen an African veldt inhabited by lions and vultures, Carl and Felicia order the youngsters to play in a different environment. Willie stares at one of the illustrations and is transported into the future in which Carl and Felicia are the parents of two precocious children, John and Anna, who have a nursery where they can electronically create any environment they wish. He tells Willie that 20 years before Felicia covered his body with skin illustrations and then "went back into the future." Carl warns that if anyone looks at the one bare spot on his body, his left shoulder, that person will see his own future. ![]() Willie, a young man hitchhiking to California in 1933, stops by a country lake and meets Carl, a former carnival roustabout who says he is looking for an old farmhouse and a mysterious woman, Felicia, whom he plans to kill. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, he was also arrogant and unlikable. Captain Herbert Sobel was in charge, but he trained them harder than any other company in the regiment. The men were from different parts of the U.S., and they had varying levels of education and socioeconomic backgrounds. The company participated in the Normandy D-Day invasion and was one of the first groups to reach Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest retreat during Germany’s surrender.Įasy Company was formed of volunteers. ![]() They were part of the 101st Airborne Division, which was considered an elite division because they were trained to be dropped behind enemy lines and conduct guerrilla warfare tactics. 1-Page Summary of Band Of Brothers Overviewīand of Brothers is a book that chronicles the history of Easy Company in World War II. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Roland barthes mythologies 1957![]() ![]() This allows one to perceive that myth cannot possibly be an object, a concept, or an idea it is a mode of signification, a form. But what must be firmly established at the start is that myth is a system of communication, that it is a message. “Myth is a type of speech: Of course, it is not any type: language needs special conditions in order to become a myth: we shall see them in a minute. The following are a few verbatim quotations which I don’t completely understand, but they surfaced with some small sense of comprehension. I could read and appreciate most of the stories, but “Myth Today” I found virtually impenetrable.Ībsorbing French philosophy and a discussion of semiology may simply take a smarter person than I to fully appreciate or understand. The final 50 pages titled, “Myth Today” is Barthes definition, description and explanation of what a myth is. About 2/3rds of the book is composed of a series of short stories or myths. In my acceptance letter to the low-residence MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Art this book was recommended. ![]() ©1957 Translation ©1972 by Jonathan Cape Ltd. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Xvi by julia karr![]() ![]() Now, alone but for her sister, Nina must try to discover who she really is, all the while staying one step ahead of her mother's killer. ![]() With her dying breaths, she reveals to Nina a shocking truth about her past-one that destroys everything Nina thought she knew. That is, until right before her birthday, when Nina's mom is brutally attacked. Considered easy prey by some, portrayed by the Media as sluts who ask for attacks, becoming a "sex-teen" is Nina's worst fear. Those three letters will be branded on her wrist, announcing to all the world-even the most predatory of men-that she is ready for sex. And like all girls she'll receive a Governing Council-ordered tattoo on her 16th birthday. ![]() MediaType eBook shortDescription Nina Oberon's life is pretty normal: she hangs out with her best friend, Sandy, and their crew, goes to school, plays with her little sister, Dee. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards![]() ![]() Scratched: Practical Move, Continuar, Lord Miles, Skinner, Forte. ![]() Here is the complete, official order of finish for the 149 th Kentucky Derby: ![]() ![]() Saturday’s official Kentucky Derby attendance was 150,335, an increase from last year’s 147,294. All-sources wagering on the Kentucky Derby race was a record of $188.7 million, beating the previous mark of $179.0 million set in 2022.ĭerby Week all-sources betting totaled $412 million, topping the previous record of $391.8 million set last year. Second-place Two Phil’s paid $10.44 and $6.52.Ī record $288.7 million was bet during Saturday’s 14-race Kentucky Derby card, according to Churchill Downs, beating the previous record of $273.8 million set last year. Two Phil’s, argued mostly for the placement of his apostrophe, was runner-up. Mage, a 15-1 shot at race time, pulled the upset. A horse few were talking about walked away with the roses, and another lightly discussed contender finished second. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Frederick douglass david w blight![]() ![]() While he was not permitted to attend school, Frederick paid some of the white children to teach him, usually presenting fresh baked goods to earn his keep. Still, young Frederick tried always to see the best in people and sought to better understand what was going on and his place in the larger picture. ![]() His being born in the middle of America’s love affair with the slave trade is not lost on the reader who pays attention to the early portion of Blight’s book. While he was a curious child, Frederick was also subjected to deplorable abuse towards those around him. Blight, I tried my best to understand how the man, his writings and outward sentiments shaped America, with views that still resonate today.įrederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in a small shed on a plantation in Maryland, around 1817, the mulatto son of a slave and slaveholder. It also being Black History Month, I thought to educate myself a little more about the man and the impact he made on US history. At a time when race relations are strained, the name of Frederick Douglass is tossed around with great regularity. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Game changer book matthew sadler![]() ![]() Sadler and Regan reveal its thinking process and tell the story of the human motivation and the techniques that created AlphaZero. They also had unparalleled access to its team of developers at DeepMind and were offered a unique look under the bonnet to grasp the depth and breadth of AlphaZeros search. ![]() The selection of ten games published in December 2017 created a worldwide sensation: how was it possible to play in such a brilliant and risky style and not lose a single game against an opponent of superhuman strength? For Game Changer, Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan investigated more than two thousand previously unpublished games by AlphaZero. The artificial intelligence system AlphaZero had been fed nothing but the rules of the Royal Game when it beat the worlds strongest chess engine in a prolonged match. It took AlphaZero only a few hours of self-learning to become the chess player that shocked the world. ![]() |