![]() ![]() ![]() However, Becker soon discovers that Tankado gave the ring away just before his death. ![]() The ring is suspected to have the code that unlocks Digital Fortress. When Tankado does indeed die in Seville, of what appears to be a heart attack, Strathmore asks Susan's fiancé David Becker to travel to Seville and recover a ring that Tankado was wearing when he died. The agency is determined to stop Digital Fortress from becoming a threat to national security. If the NSA doesn't reveal TRANSLTR to the public, Tankado intends to auction the code's algorithm on his website and have his partner, "North Dakota", release it for free if he dies, essentially holding the NSA hostage. She discovers that it was written by Ensei Tankado, a former NSA employee who became displeased with the NSA's intrusion into people's private lives. When the United States National Security Agency's code-breaking supercomputer TRANSLTR encounters a revolutionary new code, Digital Fortress, that it cannot break, Commander Trevor Strathmore calls in head cryptographer Susan Fletcher to crack it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Like Camus, Martin is a philosopher and a fiction writer he teaches at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and is perhaps best known for his 2009 novel, How to Sell. “The last time I tried to kill myself,” he confesses, “was in my basement with a dog leash.” Compare that with Clancy Martin, whose new book, How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind, starts with a blunt account of the most recent of the author’s many suicide attempts. Of course, there is no indication that Camus ever considered taking his own life his essay represents an extended thought experiment, addressing the conundrum of how to exist meaningfully in an absurd universe. Let’s stop playing, Camus seems to be insisting, and get real about what matters. ![]() ![]() “T here is but one truly serious philosophical problem,” Albert Camus begins his 1942 essay, “The Myth of Sisyphus,” “and that is suicide.” It’s a statement to which I’ve long found myself attracted, for both its philosophical rigor (deciding to live, after all, is the ultimate existentialist commitment) and its willful posture of provocation. For support and resources, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or text 741741 for the Crisis Text Line. If you are in danger of acting on suicidal thoughts, call 911. If you are having thoughts of suicide, please know that you are not alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lincoln is a huge state mental institution, a good place for Forest to make some money to pay for college. Not that Forest, an 18-year-old foster kid who works the graveyard shift at Lincoln Hospital, knew this when she applied for the job. It is a crossways, a place where the dead and the living can find no peace. ![]() ![]() “ Never, Kentucky is not your average scenic small town. Insanity by Susan Vaught is a YA Horror novel of a psychiatric hospital with a history of turning those who inhabit their walls insane, and the group of teenagers who come together in an attempt to stop the next murder from happening. ![]() ![]() Cecily von Ziegesar, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gossip Girl series April Lindner executes the cool trick of being stubbornly loyal to the well-loved original while creating something totally new and captivating." "Well-written and faithful to the original, Lindner's story imbues Jane with the requisite innocence, stubbornness, and darkness of Brontë's protagonist.A fresh and addictive adaptation." Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series "I couldn't put Jane down! Whether you love literature, romance, thrillers, or anything in between, you'll get swept up in Jane all the way to its scrumptious, satisfying end." ![]() "A fascinating, fantastical story line of secrets and star-crossed love.Set against a vivid, well-drawn, contemporary world, this is a compelling adaptation of an ageless romance." ![]() ![]() Though the setting and revolutionary backdrop are inherently dramatic, Min’s account of an epic friendship is curiously low-key, with some sections reading more like a treatment than a narrative. ![]() As the 1949 revolution looms, Pearl flees China, and Willow’s husband becomes Mao’s right-hand man, leading to a fateful showdown with Madam Mao when Willow refuses to denounce her lifelong friend. While a changing China swirls around them, their friendship is tested as they both fall in love with the same poet. In this ambitious new novel, Anchee Min brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who is now hailed in China as a modern heroine. Under threat from hostilities toward foreigners, Pearl departs for the safety of Shanghai, and, later, to America for college, but she returns for her wedding to find that Willow is the satisfied founder of a newspaper and a very unhappy wife. A lifelong friendship begins in Chin-kiang when Willow meets Pearl, whose missionary father converts Willow’s educated but impoverished father. Buck now she offers a thin sketch of the Nobel laureate’s life from the point of view of fictional Willow Yee, a fiercely loyal friend. ![]() As a girl in Maoist China, Min ( Red Azalea ![]() ![]() On discovering that teachers in training found his videos an invaluable window into actual classrooms and what exemplary teaching looks like in action, he created a separate channel where teachers can share their expertise.Eddie is well known across Australia as an advocate for teachers and the importance of teaching. ![]() 'WooTube' now has over 1 million subscribers around the world. This became a valuable mechanism for students to direct their own learning at a pace that suited them. ![]() His is an inspiring story of empathy, generosity, mentorship, personal connection, and overcoming adversity.In 2012 Eddie began to film his classroom lessons for a sick student, and put them up on YouTube, on his 'WooTube' channel. YouTube sensation, Eddie has been putting the magic in maths for the past ten years, allowing students to learn in creative and practical ways, and being at the forefront of school-based integrated STEM education. Australian High School Maths teacher, education ambassador and advisor, author, TV Host and ![]() Age range 9 to 14 Aussie STEM Stars is an inspiring children's series that celebrates Australia's experts in Science, Technology, Engineering and MathematicsEddie Woo has already packed a lot into his short life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of pushing her away, I pull her closer. ![]() When my best friend dies in a motorcycle accident, the two of us are left to grieve our loss together. I should move out so I can get over her for good however, the selfish part of me can’t let go. Considering neither of them know how I feel, it’s not fair for the way I act toward them. She’s constantly on me for making messes, bringing chicks home every weekend, and being a smartass when their PDA gets on my nerves. She’s not mine and never will be, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting to push her against a wall and claim her mouth. To her singing in the shower every morning, dancing in the kitchen while she makes coffee, and doing yoga in our living room, I can’t stop thinking about her in all the wrong ways. It was easy when she lived hours away, and I didn’t have to see her every day, but then she moved in with us. I’d never be able to compete with that, so I pushed her away instead. Baby Mine (Roommate: Hunter & Lennon Duet #1) by Kennedy Fox – Free eBooks Downloadīut it didn’t matter because she chose him and he was my best friend and roommate. ![]() ![]() She grabbed one of Ryder’s arms and one of Alec’s to steady herself. My brothers flanked Branna on either side and reached out to Aideen. An abundance of love, adoration, and happiness flooded me, and I had never felt so lucky as I did just then. ![]() This was my baby, and the woman I loved more than life was bringing him or her into the world. ![]() I could feel hair, lots of hair, and a sob caught in my throat. I pressed my hands against her vagina and felt my baby’s head. Push as hard as you can one more time.”Īideen had to adjust her position until she was in a squatted position, and I was behind her, with my hands between her thighs. “I’m ready,” I said and kissed her shoulder. “Branna, help him,” Aideen pleaded, most likely fearing I’d let our baby fall. “The baby’s crownin’ so that means the head is almost out, Kane,” Branna whispered. I found myself wishing I was feeling her pain just so she would have a moment’s peace. ![]() ![]() She pushed, pushed, and pushed some more. “Push through it with everythin’ ye’ have.”įor close to thirty minutes, that was exactly what Aideen did. She was panting, sweating, and moaning as pain consumed her. She leaned her head back against my shoulder as the contraction passed for the moment, and I wasted no time to kiss her and tell her proud I was of her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We knew how to serve tea and arrange flowers and sit quietly on our flat wide feet for hours, saying absolutely nothing of substance at all. Most of us on the boat were accomplished, and were sure we would make good wives. The book begins with the guarded optimism of the brides-to-be venturing toward their linked but disparate fates: Combining epic sweep with telling detail, she recovers these women’s sacrifices, their American lives, and the memories they left behind in a narrative that is wistful, elegant, and, in the end, perhaps deliberately unsatisfying. Otsuka writes in the unusual first-person plural, interspersed with apparent quotations from historical and autobiographical sources. Often relying on outdated or otherwise deceptive photographs and letters, they left everything they knew in order to wed Japanese laborers and farmers they had never met. Her short, precise, poetic novel, nominated for the 2011 National Book Award, aims to correct this melancholy situation for one such forgotten group - the Japanese “picture brides” who journeyed to California in the early twentieth century. Julie Otsuka ’99SOA opens The Buddha in the Attic with an epigraph from the apocryphal biblical work Ecclesiasticus: “And some there be, which have no memorial who are perished, as though they had never been.” ![]() ![]() Funny, steamy and utterly UNSCRUPULOUS!!!The Manhattanites reminded me a little of Gossip Girl, the rich and famous. There is a fair share of drama, a little debauchery and a ton of fashion. a stalking ex fiancé, Taddy’s trust issues, and a seemingly cold mother. There are a few twists and turns in the story i.e. These two meet by chance at one of Warner’s 5 star resorts and as it usually goes with these types of novels, the chemistry is palpable. He is a man of integrity and knows exactly what he wants. ![]() ![]() He too has had many life experiences that cause him to give pause when it comes to matters of the heart. Warner is a handsome, widow who just happens to be a billionaire. She is also a little damaged from her past experiences, especially her childhood and that causes her to build up this. Like so many strong women, she is seen as a force to be reckoned with in business, but she does have a softer side. What I did like in this book is that there is a softer side to Taddy. I am a jean and t-shirts gal so high fashion is over my head. I have to admit that I am not a fasionista and that may be why Taddy and I did not gel well. ![]() I will admit that I have not read that book so that maybe required in order to truly enjoy this book. This is a prequel to the author’s book Undressed. Overall I liked the book, but I couldn’t connect to it. Review 1: Unscrupulous has taken me forever to read and even longer to review. ![]() |