![]() ![]() And after one kiss, she realizes that he doesn’t play fair.” Check out my more detailed thoughts below… He wants Calamity bad enough to pull out all the stops. If all goes to plan, she’ll run the former pro quarterback out of town within a month. He might have bullied her back then, but she’s not a modest teenager anymore and has learned a few plays of her own. Ĭal has been a thorn in her side since high school. The town isn’t big enough for the both of them and besides. When her archnemesis dares to show his face one Saturday morning, declaring he is moving there too, she vows to make his life a misery. ![]() It would be the perfect adventure if not for Cal Stark. When the quiet streets of small-town Montana beckon, she leaves Denver behind and moves to Calamity. “Nellie Rivera is trading traffic for tranquility. ![]()
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![]() ![]() 06:37:29.047570: W tensorflow/compiler/tf2tensorrt/utils/py_:38] TF-TRT Warning: Cannot dlopen some TensorRT libraries. 06:37:29.047559: W tensorflow/compiler/xla/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_:64] Could not load dynamic library 'libnvinfer_plugin.so.7' dlerror: libnvinfer_plugin.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 06:37:29.047458: W tensorflow/compiler/xla/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_:64] Could not load dynamic library 'libnvinfer.so.7' dlerror: libnvinfer.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This guide uses tf.keras, a high-level API to build and train models in TensorFlow. It's okay if you don't understand all the details this is a fast-paced overview of a complete TensorFlow program with the details explained as you go. This guide trains a neural network model to classify images of clothing, like sneakers and shirts. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() By turns satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, The Master and Margarita constantly surprises and entertains as the action switches back and forth between twentieth-century Moscow and first-century Jerusalem. ![]() This visit has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, an author who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate and is now in a mental hospital. In Mikhail Bulgakov's imaginative extravaganza, Satan, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. This edition is translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor, and features an introduction by Orlando Figes. The Master and Margarita Paperback Maby Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Diana Burgin (Translator), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator) 1,052 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 15.75 52 Used from 2.76 1 New from 26.29 1 Collectible from 38. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita is considered a masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Baffling crimes that hurtle superbly etched characters toward damnation and salvation. “True Confessions” greatly influenced my current series of wartime Los Angeles books.Įxplosive language. It’s a pulsating potpourri of racial invective, flamboyant street talk, cop rebop, and the wiiiiiiild American idiom at its most profane. “The Black Dahlia.” The language is explosive. Beyond yours truly, I would point readers to John Gregory Dunne’s 1977 classic, “True Confessions.” It’s the first novelized treatment of the hellish 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, a.k.a. Why mince words? My own novels, chiefly “The Black Dahlia,” “Perfidia” and my new book, “This Storm.” “Buy or die” - that’s my directive, issued to readers worldwide. ![]() What books would you recommend to someone who wants to know more about Los Angeles? Man, what a great period novel! Man, what a great depiction of 1924 Chicago! Man, what a great portrayal of two world-class psychopaths! It’s the story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, and their vile and idiotic “thrill killing” of Bobby Franks. I’ve read it six or seven times, over the years. “Compulsion,” the 1956 novel by Meyer Levin. He’s Robert Ludlum for the new millennium. The Bible, “Prayer,” by Pastor Timothy Keller, and - of late - one of the groovy Israeli hit man novels by Daniel Silva. ![]() Neither did William Faulkner, another cat I don’t dig.” The Los Angeles crime novelist, whose new book is “This Storm,” is no fan of Cormac McCarthy’s work: “McCarthy fails to employ quotation marks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now their entire kingdom is after them-and the coordinates-and not everyone wants them captured alive. When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn’t care what he’ll sacrifice to keep them. ![]() But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. But D09-one of the last remaining illegal Metals-has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him.Īna’s desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. How: A copy of this novel was provided by HarperCollins for review via Edelweiss. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is an all-too-human woman trying to balance science, love, and the family values that constitute her legacy. While her work won her two Nobel Prizes and transformed our world, it did not liberate her from the prejudices of either the male-dominated scientific community or society. Curie’s shrewd though controversial insight was that radioactivity was an atomic properly that could be used to discover new elements. THE MYTH OF MARIE CURIE–the penniless Polish immigrant who, through genius and obsessive persistence, endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world’s ills including cancer–has obscured the remarkable truth behind her discoveries. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tom is haunted by what he witnessed-and what he did-during his enlistment in World War I. ![]() Sometimes it’s good to leave the past in the past.”(pages 44-45) Do you think it is possible to leave the past in the past? What do you think of Tom’s opinion that it’s a “pity” that we’re a product of our family’s past? What does this tell you about his character? Discuss the impact of family history on Tom, Isabel, Hannah, and Frank.ĥ. ![]() When Isabel tries to get Tom to open up about his family, he responds: “I’ll tell you if you really want. Why do you think each of them is drawn to live on Janus Rock? Do you think, in the moments when we are unobserved, we are different people?Ĥ. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you’re wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind.” (page 110) Discuss the impact of living in seclusion on both Tom and Isabel. ![]() The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. “The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm-the turning of the light. Is there a particular passage or scene that stood out to you? What role does the natural world play in Tom and Isabel’s life?ģ. The novel is rich with detailed descriptions of the ocean, the sky, and the wild landscape of Janus Rock. Why do you think the author selected this title? What do you visualize when you hear or read The Light Between Oceans?Ģ. Discuss the novel’s title, The Light Between Oceans. ![]() ![]() On the other side Andrew is well aware to be in love with Thomas, but for the sake of their friendship, he has never said a word. But Thomas is really naïve, and he has never questioned Andrew’s attachment. Not that at Thomas cares much that his friend his not nobility, and they really are tight, someone could say as tight as lovers. ![]() Most of the time he is helped by his good friend Andrew, the son of a wealthy merchant. ![]() This is it for Thomas and Andrew when the novel starts Thomas is the disowned son of a duke who can barely afford a room at the University Club. But more than that, for all the novel, you are never worried for your heroes, since you are sure they are enjoying a Seasonal romance with you and they will be happy in the end. Usually, under Christmas, the romance series like Harlequin and Mills&Boon ask to their more important authors to write a Christmas story these stories are always sweet more than passionate, and they have, of course, an happily ever after. Elisa_rolle This was like one of those Victorian Christmas romances, very common if you enjoy historical romances. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Remarkable…Kate Quinn is a master at crafting an intoxicating, well-balanced blend of immersive period details and deft character work. Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC-until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness.īut when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life.īased on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper-a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son-but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. ![]() ![]() The bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. ![]() |