![]() ![]() To further complicate matters, Edie then becomes tangled up in his family under the same roof, tiptoeing around wife Rebecca, who may or may not be accepting of her open marriage, and their adopted black daughter Akila. Meanwhile, she seeks affirmation and intimacy through her borderline violent affair with an older married man – Eric the archivist. After losing her demeaning job in a publishing company, she joins the gig economy and lands headfirst in a customer's cheesecake. ![]() She struggles to make ends meet and clings on to her cockroach-infested apartment. Edie is a young black woman who aspires to make art – earnestly so, as Leilani has said – but is constantly teetering on the precipice of failure. The candour of her calamitous key protagonist is endearing from the off. ![]() The specificity is astounding, even in those fleeting moments in everyday life so easy to glaze over. Her style of prose is so brutally visceral, voluble and effusive, yet the sentences are so precise. Raven Leilani's Luster is one hell of a debut novel. ![]()
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![]() Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that helped place America on the road to war. Erik Larson - Best-selling Author of Dead Wake Coming in Paperback 2/15/22 The Splendid and the Vile Available in paperback 2/15/22 On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. ![]() Full of glamour, mystery, and real-life suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, including the US president Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted. Meanwhile, an ultrasecret British intelligence unit were tracking Schwieger's U-boat.but told no one.Īs U-20 and the Lusitania made their way towards Liverpool, forces both grand and achingly small - hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret and more - converged to produce one of the great disasters of 20th-century history. But Germany was intent on changing the rules, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. He also knew that his ship - the fastest then in service - could outrun any threat. ![]() For months its submarines had brought terror to the North Atlantic.īut the Lusitania's captain, William Thomas Turner, had faith in the gentlemanly terms of warfare that had, for a century, kept civilian ships safe from attack. ![]() Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. 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Text generation, neural style transfer, and image generationĭeep Learning with Python has taught thousands of readers how to put the full capabilities of deep learning into action.Text classification and machine translation.Image classification and image segmentation. ![]() In Deep Learning with Python, Second Edition you will learn: Learn directly from the creator of Keras and master practical Python deep learning techniques that are easy to apply in the real world. ![]() Unlock the groundbreaking advances of deep learning with this extensively revised new edition of the bestselling original. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are plenty of mathematical formulas in the book explaining the arcane science of saber-metrics, but also many pages devoted to the backgrounds of other players. ![]() It is about Beane’s small budget to buy players for the next season and his decision to use baseball statistics (a field called saber-metrics) to identify players overlooked by the bigger and richer teams. It’s a multi-faceted book, exploring the life and career of Billy Beane, a former Major League player and General Manager of the Oakland A’s team. Author Michael Lewis, who also wrote The Blind Side, which became another Academy Award winning film, wrote Moneyball in 2003. However, after the film based on the novel was nominated for six Academy Awards in 2012, I thought there had to be some substance to the plot, and commenced reading.įor a book about baseball and statistics, it’s a fascinating read. It was not a general interest in American baseball that prompted me to borrow Moneyball by Michael Lewis. ![]() ![]() She worked at the Cleveland Star, moved to New York, was hired by the Daily Telegraph, and finally landed jobs at Vanity Fair and Vogue, where she was a fashion reporter. Louis, Pauline graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1918. Pauline Pfeiffer: Born in Iowa on Jand raised in St. However, during his time writing The Sun Also Rises, their marriage began to fall apart, and after Hadley discovered that Ernest was having an affair with Pauline Pfeiffer, they officially divorced in January 1927. On October 10, 1923, John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway (Bumby) was born, Ernest's first child. They were married on Septemand shortly thereafter moved to Paris. ![]() After her mother's death, Hadley visited a friend in Chicago, whereupon she met Ernest. This, plus the suicide of her father when she was 12, contributed to Hadley's severe shyness, and she sought refuge from her difficult childhood in music. She suffered a serious injury as a child when she fell out of a second-story window, putting her in the hospital for months and igniting her mother's overprotection. However, over the course of his life (1899-1961) Ernest Hemingway married four different women, each unique and interesting in her own right:Įlizabeth Hadley Richardson: Born on November 9, 1891, Hadley was raised in a rather cheerless household. Paula McLain's novel, The Paris Wife, centers on the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. ![]() ![]() Whether Jingwen and Yanghao are teasing, supporting, or bickering with each other, their relationship rings true. Frequent flashbacks to Jingwen’s younger years in his (unnamed) country of origin contribute to strong character and relationship development and to the satisfying conclusion. Written from Jingwen’s perspective, the text is augmented with humorous, often exaggerated black and blue spot and sequential paneled illustrations that offer a visual window into Jingwen’s experiences and emotions. Even if that means disobeying his mother’s rules while she’s working the night shift at a local bakery. Worried that assimilating into Australian culture means he’s forsaking his father’s memory, Jingwen latches on to the idea that if he can make all the cakes his father planned to feature on the menu of his dream bakery, Pie in the Sky, then everything will be okay. But guilt over his father’s accidental death festers. ![]() ![]() ![]() He knows life would be easier if he learned more English like his annoyingly chipper, too-loud, too-energetic little brother Yanghao. Having recently immigrated to Australia, 11-year-old Jingwen feels like he’s been dropped onto a strange planet full of gibberish-spouting aliens. ![]() ![]() Muito do trabalho de Tubb foi escrito sob pseudônimos, incluindo Gregory Kern, Carl Maddox, Alan Guthrie, Eric Storm e George Holt. ![]() Michael Moorcock escreveu: "Sua reputação de literatura de ficção científica veloz e colorida é incomparável a ninguém na Grã-Bretanha". Autor de mais de 140 romances e 230 contos e novelas, Tubb é mais conhecido por The Dumarest Saga (título coletivo dos EUA: Dumarest of Terra), uma saga épica de ficção científica ambientada em um futuro distante. Tubb ( 15 de outubro de 1919 - 10 de setembro de 2010) também conhecido como EC Tubb, e chamado de "Ted" por amigos, foi um escritor britânico de ficção científica, fantasia e romances ocidentais. ![]() ![]() Edwin Charles Tubb, mais conhecido como E.C. ![]() ![]() More and more people agree to the offer and give away more and more of their spare time, and gradually give up any activities that are not considered completely necessary and eventually lose all their emotions. One day strange men with pale skin, grey suits, and grey hats appear in town and offer people to take their spare time into an account and pay it back with interest at a later time. At the beginning of the book she leads a happy life, living in an old amphitheater on the outskirts of the city, surrounded by a community of friends who bring her food and share their problems with her. Momo takes place in an unnamed Italian town which is home to the eponymous homeless girl, who is known to be wise and has an almost supernatural ability to listen and help people come to terms with their problems. ![]() An English translation has been published in 1974 as The Grey Gentlemen, and again in 1984 as Momo. Momo is a German fantasy novel written by Michael Ende in 1973. ![]() Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth. ![]() |