![]() ![]() Grisham fans will probably most love “Homecoming,” set in Grisham’s fictional Clanton, Mississippi, and featuring Jake Brigance, the attorney readers first met in “A Time to Kill” then again in “Sycamore Row” (2013), and “A Time For Mercy” (2020). But that’s the only thing that groups them together. Yes, they’re all about some aspect of the law - the people who practice it or the people who run afoul of it. Enter “Sparring Partners, a collection of three novellas with almost nothing in common. But like the best pitchers in Grisham’s beloved sport of baseball, sometimes you just want to throw a change-up. ![]() Since bursting on the scene with the runaway hit “A Time to Kill” in 1989, John Grisham has been one of the most reliable fiction writers alive, churning out a bestselling novel almost every year. “Sparring Partners” by John Grisham (Doubleday) This book cover image released by Doubleday shows "Sparring Partners" by John Grisham. ![]()
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![]() On the occasion of John Carter’s centenary, The Library of America invites readers to rediscover A Princess of Mars, the adventure-pulp classic that gave the world its first great interplanetary romance. He was Edgar Rice Burroughs’s favorite among his many creations and remains a favorite of lovers of science fiction and fantasy everywhere. ![]() 'A Princess of Mars' is both a romantic adventure and a. At the center of the series is the protagonist John Carter, a Confederate Captain of the American Civil War, who finds himself mysteriously transported to the planet Mars. This is the first tale in Burroughs classic Martian novel series. John Carter first appeared in 1912 in the pages of The All-Story magazine and immediately entered the dream-life of American readers young and old. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. He also wins the heart of fellow-prisoner Dejah Thoris, the alluring, red-skinned Princess of Helium, whose people he swears to defend against their grasping and ancient enemy, the city-state of Zodanga. Taken prisoner by the Tharks, a fierce nomadic tribe of sixlimbed, olive-green giants, he wins respect as a cunning and able warrior, who by grace of Mars’s weak gravity possesses the agility of a superman. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and forty-eight million miles from Earth-a castaway on the dying planet Mars. In the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious vapors. ![]() ![]() Suriname was traded for New York (then called New Amsterdam) between the British and the Dutch. So of course as our ancestors did, they persevered and very likely without realizing the strength of their doing, gave life to a new language mixed with their indigenous African languages and the languages of the captured land. Scratching the surface a bit revealed that the good ole British once colonized Suriname for about 30 years during the 17th century setting up their main office in the nation’s capital, Paramaribo, importing humans and levying English as the language of command on Suriname’s multilingual ancestors. ![]() ![]() Sranan Tongo: I became more inquisitive once I found that the mother tongue of Suriname□□ is referred to as “English-Creole” despite their national language being Dutch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jake doesn't know the half of what Marisa has created-and what she stands to lose. Who is this woman? Why does she seem to know everything about Marisa and Jake? In her quest to find out who Kate really is, Marisa might destroy everything she's worked so hard to create-her perfect romance, her perfect family, and her perfect self. To make matters worse, Kate's boundary-pushing turns into an all-out obsession-with Jake, with Marisa, and with their future child. Conceiving a baby is easier said than done, though, and Jake and Marisa's perfect relationship is put to the test through months of fertility treatments and false starts. But Marisa doesn't let it concern her, knowing that soon Kate will be gone, and it will just be her, Jake, and their future baby. ![]() Sure, Kate doesn't seem to care much about personal boundaries and can occasionally seem overly familiar with Jake. And Kate, their new lodger, is the perfect roommate-and not just because her rent payments will give them the income they need to start trying for the baby of their dreams. "Great, plain and simple" (Stanley Tucci). Parrish comes a twisty psychological suspense novel about motherhood, obsession, and just how far some will go for the perfect family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's paradise, Harvey thinks at first, but soon wonders: Why is fellow- visitor Lulu so morose? What kind of fish are those, with eyes like ``prisoners,'' lurking in the pond out back? And where is Mr. ![]() Here, too, the hero-ten-year-old Harvey Swick-encounters another world, by having his cry of boredom answered by a yellow-skinned man named Rictus who flies through Harvey's bedroom window and offers to take him to ``Holiday House.'' The boy agrees and, led through a wall of fog, finds himself in a magical place where, during each 24 hours, all four seasons pass (hot, sunny afternoons snowy winter nights, etc.) along with their holidays, including Christmas mornings that find Harvey's most cherished wishes answered beneath the tree. Barker's adult novels (Imajica, 1991, etc.) deal with the play between our world and fabulous alternate realities. Is it penance? Cockiness? A final burst of youth? Whatever the reasons, in recent years, several middle-aging horror authors have written children's books (rarely marketed as such): Whitley Strieber's Wolf of Shadows (1985) Stephen King's The Eyes of the Dragon (1987) Dean Koontz's Oddkins (1988)-and now, from Barker, a ``fable'' about a wish-granting house that may be the weakest of the lot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Polychroniou: As a scientific discipline, artificial intelligence (AI) dates back to the 1950s, but over the last couple of decades it has been making inroads into all sort of fields, including banking, insurance, auto manufacturing, music, and defense. Current work with Large Language Models (LLMs), including chatbots, provides tools for disinformation, defamation, and misleading the uninformedĬ. ![]() Both questions arise in the case of engineering AI. ![]() The potential application for such technology is indeed enormous, which is why there are already calls to regulate AI like ChatGPT.Ĭan AI outsmart humans? Does it pose public threats? Indeed, can AI become an existential threat? The world’s preeminent linguist Noam Chomsky, and one of the most esteemed public intellectuals of all time, whose intellectual stature has been compared to that of Galileo, Newton, and Descartes, tackles these nagging questions in the interview that follows.Įngineering projects can be useful, or harmful. It is a subset of machine learning and relies on what is called Large Language Models that can generate human-like responses. ChatGPT, which is dominating social media, is an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI. ![]() It is transforming every walk of life and raising in the process major ethical concerns for society and the future of humanity. Artificial intelligence (AI) is sweeping the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar" later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.Īfter graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. ![]() ![]() Like everyone else, she needs some time to readjust her thinking when George shares her secret. Kelly is amazing! We all need a cheerleader like Kelly in our lives. I loved so many of the other characters for their reactions but I feel that I have to mention two in particular. But watching George become the person she knows she is? It’s a priceless gift to watch her transformation and journey to self-acceptance. People who know her need some time to accept the idea, which feels fair. The road isn’t perfectly smooth-that would be too unrealistic. What will they think? But as she slowly starts to share her secret, she finds so much love and acceptance. George is afraid to tell anyone that she’s really a girl. I inhaled this book in just a few hours and it left me with so much joy for George, I was almost in tears. But George’s best friend Kelly has an idea…. The teacher refuses to cast a boy in the role and George is heartbroken. The only problem is that everyone sees George as a boy but George knows in her heart that she’s really a girl. Ten-year-old George loves the book, Charlotte’s Web, so when her class puts on a stage production, she is desperate to play the role of Charlotte. I will earn a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase merchandise through links on my site. I have an affiliate relationship with Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe in beautiful Asheville, NC. Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Social Issues ![]() ![]() Title: Melissa (Formerly published as George) ![]() ![]() The weight-loss company warned staffers to look for other employment …Lemonious-Craig had 23 receptions for 359 yards and three touchdowns last year for the Buffs, who had a disappointing quarterback carousel. Jenny Craig appears to be shedding more than pounds. 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In a world plagued by terrible earthquakes, the survival-obsessed populace scrapes by living in disaster-prepared city-states called comms and following the survival tips of the ancients known as stonelore. Jemisin, and the first book of The Broken Earth Trilogy. ![]() |