![]() ![]() ![]() But everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice arrives in the executive suite and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head.Īnd then she walks away like nothing has happened. A debut perfect for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham's The Firm.Įllice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a "for fun" relationship with a rich, charming executive, who just happens to be her white boss. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a black lawyer who gets caught in a dangerous conspiracy after the sudden death of her boss. Morris brings a vibrant and welcome new voice to the thriller space." -Karin Slaughter, New York Times and international bestselling author "All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So that’s what makes it so innovative for us is because the bureau doesn’t have bots right now, we were just sort of like putting our toes in that world,” Peter Sursi, head of finance modernization, accounts payable and relocation services said at the Adobe Government Forum in Washington on Tuesday. “It’s the first time we’re actually automating something through robotic process automation. ![]() ![]() It will automate the currently manual process of paying invoices every month and updating budget lines items needed to pay invoices to customers or vendors. The launch of the bot comes amid a push across federal government to use robotic process automation to streamline agency processes. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s finance modernization team said Tuesday it will soon roll out a bot for automatically paying invoices and updating budget line items that could act as pilot for the future automation of back-office systems at the agency. ![]() ![]() Every time she turned around, I had to go scurrying back into research. Q: Of your five main protagonists, who was the most challenging to write?Ī: Probably Anna, a young girl growing up in Constantinople in the 1440s. ![]() I loved researching and imagining his life: trying to conjure up the richness, color, superstitions and mythologies of his day-to-day existence. His is a world where every event, from a thunderstorm to the birth of a calf, throbs with supernatural meaning. Omeir, for example, is a boy growing up in the 15th century in the mountains of what we would now call Bulgaria. I chose these traits because I wanted to show that even characters with the seemingly smallest parts to play in history can significantly affect lives in the future.Ī: Probably the distant past. They all act, ultimately, with great decency and courage, and they all love stories. Q: Please describe one trait your diverse characters have in common.Ī: They’re all deeply curious. ![]() No matter how separate we might seem - whether by culture, space or time - we are all connected to each other, to our ancestors, to our great-grandchildren and to the other species with which we share this planet. This is a ticketed event.Ī: If there’s a single theme in “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” it’s connection. Warwick’s and USD’s College of Arts and Sciences will present Doerr this Friday at 7 p.m. ![]() ![]() ![]() But it turns out revenge is a messy business, and when I end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, I royally piss off four brutal, twisted, gorgeous men. Six people who turned me into the monster I am now. Six people who wronged me, who hurt me, who took everything from me. Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. I was a good girl once, but now I dance with devils. I’m a loose thread to them-but somehow, I’m becoming more than that too.Īnd no matter how much I try to deny the terrifying attraction that pulses between us, I know if I don’t find a way out of this tangled web soon… These three dangerous brothers will do anything to make sure I keep my mouth shut about what I saw, even if it means stalking my every movement. They don’t… but they don’t forget about me, either. When they drag me from the blood-soaked bed, I’m certain they’re going to kill me too. ![]() On the night I’m meant to give my body to a brutal Russian mobster, three men storm into the room like dark shadows and kill him before he can claim me. ![]() So when I end up desperate for money and out of options, I agree to sell the one thing I have left: my innocence. My parents are dead, my adoptive mother is a drug addict, and the mean girls on campus mock me for my scars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing from cultural materialism, anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender studies, and postmodern thought, Piatti-Farnell re-frames the concept of the vampire in relation to a distinctly twenty-first century brand of Gothic imagination, highlighting important aesthetic, conceptual, and cultural changes that have affected the literary genre in the post-2000 era. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a comprehensive critical analysis of vampires in contemporary popular literature and demonstrating how they engage with essential cultural preoccupations, anxieties, and desires. Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. Bag om The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature ![]() ![]() In reality, most production systems are distributed: Kubernetes, DNS, and even web applications. Friedlĭesigning Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, and Grady Booch.Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau and Bret Taylor.Cracking the Code by Gayle Laakmann McDowell.Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler.The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth.The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas. ![]()
![]() ![]() The sort of terminal sick.the sort of sick levels that you would (logically) tell your life partner.but she doesn't.and she gets worse.and starts pining over the life she is soon to lose. To better put this into perspective, at the end of last book, Grace turns Sam permanently into a human through a convoluted and completely (and utterly) dumb way (think of the most dangerous way to do something simple.and she went three steps beyond that).Īnyway, now that he's human, she's starting to feel inexplicably sick. In other words, for Book 2, we are actually back at square one. But this isn't the way it ought to happen.So.you may be wondering what could possibly cause this level of Romeo-Julietesque mourning.ĭid one of them kill themselves? Was there a tragic, deadly disaster? You know I'd love to have you with me, and it will be that way, one day. I say good-bye good-bye good-bye *deep breath out* Because you know that's not how you want it to end. One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside *deep breath in* One thousand ways to say good-bye ![]() ![]() ![]() I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things. New week, New BookTube Video - all about the best (and worst) literary couples The Written Review3.5 stars What's better than a book about two lovebirds being in love? HOW could you POSSIBLY keep your audience INVESTED after the characters get together in Chapter 1 of book 1? ![]() ![]() ![]() Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.Įmpire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions-Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by Ox圜ontin, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing ![]() ![]() How bad could it really be? She's determined to show her stepfather-and the hot, grumpy local-that she's more than a pretty face.Įxcept it's a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. So what if Piper can't do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. Piper hasn't even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won't last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father's dive bar. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn't belong. ![]() ![]() The first in a spicy and unforgettable rom-com duology from #1 New York Times bestseller and tik tok favorite Tessa Bailey, in which a Hollywood "It Girl" is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the advent of steam-driven analytical engines, all aspects of people’s lives are effected – from the punch cards used for their identification to the type of music they listen to. The majority of the stories take place during this new British scientific revolution – spurred by Charles Babbage’s invention of the Difference Engine, an invention that in this reality he never actually built. Years before the story takes place, political Luddites opposed new technologies, while the Industrial Radical Party embraced the new analytical machines with all their applications. In Britain, intellectual savants – backed by scientific achievement instead of breeding – have become the new aristocracy. However, I was soon swept away by the characters and their fantastic world of invention and intrigue. All I knew was that it was a classic and had something to do with steampunk. When I first delved into The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, I had no previous experience reading the work of either author. “ The book does prominently feature three of the foundational touchstones of all things steampunk: giant airships, brass computers, and kinky feminine underwear.” ~ Bruce Sterling, Afterword, The Difference Engine ![]() |