![]() ![]() ![]() While I’m contractually bound to not repeat the approximately 80 highlights I made while reading, I can assure you that it is filled with ‘Bot’s trademark sarcastic thoughts on humans, slow thought processes, and complicated facial expressions. No, I mean Murderbot is back in a solid novella. No, I don’t mean the vaccine, although that’s pretty amazing. Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans!Ī standalone adventure in the New York Times and USA Today-bestselling, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning series!Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Ģ021 is looking to be a pretty special year. When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people-who knew?) If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall. Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it's "one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I've ever read") Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today. The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn't admit it!) is back in Fugitive Telemetry! ![]()
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![]() He condemns total hardcore denial, but also claims that Auschwitz wasn't an extermination camp at least from 1943 on and the well-documented gas vans didn't exist. Now it's a drunken ex-denier who kinda saw the light, but is still an asshole towards both sides. His shtick had always been being a Jewish denier. ![]() He moderated his historical views considerably, coming to the conclusion that extermination camps did exist. He tells about this event and many others in his "tell all" book. He reinvented himself as a Republican event organizer in Hollywood and there was a moderately large scandal when his cover got blown up. Short intro: Cole used to be a hardcore Holocaust denier in the early 1990s, shot a comical video about Auschwitz which became a hit among the deniers (the deceptions of this video are fully exposed here). ![]() A post on David Stein/Cole's book Republican Party Animal, or rather on the historical appendix to it in which he explains his views on the Holocaust. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tom is a Colorado Rockies fan, and in his free time, he enjoys biking and spending time outdoors. Roche Memorial Baseball Training Facility. He is a founding board member of Salida del Sol Academy and an honorary lifetime member of the University Schools Board of Governors. Away from work, Tom is a member of the City of Greeley Police Department Chief’s Advisory Committee and participates in Pittsburg State University’s School of Construction Leadership Council. Tom and his wife Faith have raised three sons – Patrick, A.J., and Thomas – and now enjoy spending time with their grandchildren. His professional affiliations include Associated Builders & Contractors, International Council of Shopping Centers, and Retail Contractors Association. Griffin Roche-Tilden, son of James Tilden, kisses his mother Katie Roche during a ceremony in memory of James Tilden at the Rainbow Chimes International School for Early Education in Huntington. Additionally, he formulates plans and policies to achieve corporate objectives and fulfills Roche’s commitment to its employees, clients, and communities. ![]() As the CEO, Tom’s primary role is to provide leadership and overall direction for the company. Tom Roche is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Roche Constructors. ![]() ![]() ILLUSTRATIONS–What do you remember about the illustrations? Were they colorful or monotone? Very detailed or line drawings? Did they fill the page or just accompany the text? Do they remind you of any specific illustrator or artist’s style?. ![]() ![]() Do you remember character names or where the story took place? Were there anthropomorphized animals in the story? Do you think the person reading the story to you may have “improvised” a bit?
![]() ![]() *Winter 2018-2019 Kids' Indie Next List Pick* Praise for Greystone Secrets #1: The Strangers The second book in the Greystone Secrets series, The Deceivers, by bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix, continues the twisty and suspenseful story of the Greystone kids and examines the power of the truth-or a lie-to alter lives, society, and even an entire reality. What if she’s gotten so used to lying she no longer knows what to believe? With everything spiraling out of control, Finn has to pretend he’s okay.Īnd for Natalie, the lies of the other world include some she wishes were actually true. ![]() Despite all her brains, Emma can’t seem to break the code. To do so, they have to go back: into the other world, where even telling the truth can be illegal.īut in such a terrifying place, Chess doubts he can ever be brave enough. ![]() Now the four kids-brave Chess, smart Emma, kind Finn, and savvy Natalie-are determined to rescue everyone. Their mother tried to fix it, but she and an ally got trapped there along with Ms. It’s a mirror image, except things are wrong. ![]() Until their mother vanished, the Greystone kids-Chess, Emma, and Finn-knew nothing about the other world.Įverything is different there. The second book in the Greystone Secrets series from the master of plot twists, Margaret Peterson Haddix-perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time and The City of Ember! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pretty much the same mutation then occurred in certain wild pulses, which stayed in the pod, as a kind of packed lunch, rather than falling to the soil to multiply.īut it took more than one or two convenient plants that were ripe for the picking to get civilisation off the ground. This accident made them dish of the day for foraging nomads, and then ideal for the first, tentative plantations by the hunters and gatherers who so casually launched human civilisation some time after the end of the last ice age. Instead of spilling their seed upon the ground, these doomed stalks kept their ears pricked, so to speak: their seed heads stayed neatly on the stem, long past ripening. Some individuals in these wild wheat ancestors had developed mutations that boded ill for their evolutionary survival. It had emmer and einkorn, species of grass with heavy seeds. So you start with stone tools and the raw materials for a Welsh rarebit and you end up with galleons, guns and measles, all of which helped 168 Spanish conquistadores in 1532 to overthrow an army of 80,000 Incas half way around the world.īut what was so special about the Fertile Crescent? ![]() ![]() ![]() Financing his own team of scientists and artists, Banks battled high seas, hailstorms, treacherous coral reefs and hostile locals to expand the world's knowledge of life on distant shores. ![]() In 1768, as a galivanting young playboy, he joined Captain James Cook's Endeavour expedition to the South Pacific. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge.įabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific discoveries in Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and the Arctic. ![]() Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery ![]() ![]() Karl, author of an exhaustive critical biography on Franz Kafka says, “Kafka is the only 20th-century literary figure whose name has entered the language in a way no other writer has.” But he is against the misuse of the term ‘Kafkaesque’. It is a world devoid of meaning or purpose other than to clear one’s name of the nebulous sense of guilt that is present in the atmosphere. In his texts, society seems to operate in a secretive manner that the individual cannot understand. An individual stands alone and at odds with society. Kafka’s world is one in which God is dead. Kafka’s works mainly expressed the absurdity of modern society, especially the impersonal nature of bureaucracy and capitalism. Franz Kafka And His Worldįranz Kafka was one of the major German-language novelists and short story writers of the twentieth century. Kafkaesque comes from the name of an author Franz Kafka. Basically, the term Kafkaesque is used to describe situations or circumstances that are illogically complex in a surreal, bizarre, or nightmarish way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For more about plasma donation, visit the plasma donation facts. The universal plasma donor has Type AB blood. The universal red cell donor has Type O negative blood. The need for O+ is high because it is the most frequently occurring blood type (37% of the population). However, the need for O negative blood is the highest because it is used most often during emergencies. Only 7% of the population are O negative. Types O negative and O positive are in high demand. Minority and diverse populations, therefore, play a critical role in meeting the constant need for blood. Type O is routinely in short supply and in high demand by hospitals – both because it is the most common blood type and because type O negative blood is the universal blood type needed for emergency transfusions and for immune deficient infants.Īpproximately 45 percent of Caucasians are type O (positive or negative), but 51 percent of African-Americans and 57 percent of Hispanics are type O. ![]() Why? O negative blood can be used in transfusions for any blood type. Universal donors are those with an O negative blood type. ![]() ![]() ![]() All of that is interrupted when Margaret receives a telegram from the War Department, summoning her to her husband’s bedside in Washington, D.C. Living by her watchwords, “Hope and keep busy,” she fills her days with humdrum charity work to keep her worries at bay. Yet even with all that weighs upon her, Margaret longs to do more-for the war effort, for the poor, for the cause of abolition, and most of all, for her daughters. Worst of all, Margaret harbors the secret that these financial hardships are largely her fault, thanks to a disastrous mistake made over a decade ago which wiped out her family’s fortune and snatched away her daughters’ chances for the education they deserve. Money is tight and every month, her husband sends less and less of his salary with no explanation. With her husband serving as an army chaplain, the comfort and security of Margaret’s four daughters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy-now rest on her shoulders alone. ![]() In 1861, war is raging in the South, but in Concord, Massachusetts, Margaret March has her own battles to fight. From the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret “Marmee” March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy domestic concerns cherished by generations of readers. ![]() |