I love to read, write, paint (walls and paper). I love strong heroines, despise whiny sidekicks, and adore a good story about a triumphant underdog. I’m Jacqueline Garlick, author of young adult and new adult fiction. Determined to follow the thief and recover the machine, she ventures into the deepest, darkest, most dangerous part of her twisted world. But Eyelet’s late father’s most prized invention, the Illuminator, has been missing since the day of the mysterious flash-a day that saw the sun wiped out over Brethren forever.Īlone and on the run, she finds the Illuminator-only to witness a young man hauling it away. After her mother is accused and executed for a crime that she didn’t commit, the now-orphaned Eyelet has no choice but to track down the machine-her last hope for a cure. She’s hidden her secret affliction all of her life-a life that would be in danger if superstitious townspeople ever guessed the truth. Seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth is no stranger to living in the dark. Even in a land of eternal twilight, secrets can’t stay hidden forever.
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And with the continued presence of the Iraqi secret service in the city, Dewar can only conclude that they are waiting for someone else to finish the job.Īnd then smallpox breaks out on the Muirhouse Estate, one of the poorest and most densely populated areas in Edinburgh. Nobody links these incidents until Adam Dewar, investigating the movement of smallpox virus fragments between UK research institutes, stumbles on the horrific possibility that the student had been under pressure from the Iraqis to reconstruct the virus. But why are the Iraqis inoculating their population against a disease which has been wiped out for twenty years?Ī young Iraqi student at the Institute of Molecular Science in Edinburgh, Scotland kills himself for no apparent reason. He is picked up by a British patrol and found to have suffered a rare reaction to the smallpox vaccine. A half-dead man crashes his car at the Iraqi border. If you go forward one or one and a half years and count the number of AI IPO companies, China will actually be ahead. So overall, I think both countries have done well. We're seeing lots of great breakthroughs in healthcare. That same product could be extended to laboratory research, and, essentially, start to replace much of the work that laboratory technicians do. It has developed a robotic machine that can do Covid tests 100 times faster than without the machine because it's 24-7 with everything in parallel. It turns out that the laboratory is a great place for robotics.Īn example of one of the portfolio companies we’ve invested in is a company called MegaRobo. And that has led to AI-based drug discovery, protein folding, intelligent AI-based radiology, AI for social distancing, and the use of robotics in laboratories. That's kind of emergent and is beyond my predictions in “AI Superpowers” because Covid really accelerated a lot of that. Both countries have done a lot in AI for healthcare. Naturally, each will apply AI to areas that it's strong in. is stronger in enterprise software, and China is stronger in manufacturing. China has accelerated its robotics and manufacturing. is stronger in fundamental research, enterprise software and enterprise AI. Lee: Both countries have continued to become the “AI Superpowers” that I predicted, leading the world by far. Unwilling to let her heart distract her, she accepts help from a band of Unseelie misfits with their own secret agenda. Brie's only choice is to pose as a potential bride for Prince Ronan, and she soon finds herself falling for him. Gaining unfettered access to the Seelie court is easier said than done. But when her sister is sold to the sadistic king of the Unseelie court to pay a debt, she'll do whatever it takes to get her back-including making a deal with the king himself to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court. Cruel Prince meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this sexy, action-packed fantasy about a girl who is caught between two treacherous faerie courts and their dangerously seductive princes.īrie hates the Fae and refuses to have anything to do with them, even if that means starving on the street. When she showed up several nights later to meet him, she was stunned to see me standing there - with an offer I hoped she wouldn’t refuse.Ī DEEP BEAUTIFUL BITTERSWEET JOURNEY OF FRIENDS (Ironic, considering the circumstances.)Įventually, she set up a date to meet Gentleman Nine at a hotel. But she considered me off-limits - and she thought I was a man-whore. She opened up to him, confessing, among other things, her physical attraction to her friend - me. Every emotion imaginable ran through me: protectiveness, jealousy - curiosity.Īmber had chosen Gentleman Number Nine and sent him a message. Afraid to date and get her heart broken again, she was looking for sex with no strings. She’d hesitantly contacted a male escort company. One night, I opened her computer to find the shock of my life. Still reeling from her breakup, she’d sworn off men. When my job sent me to Boston for a three-month contract position, Amber let me stay in her spare room. Through it all and across the miles, she and I casually stayed in touch. They were together for years - before he broke her heart. I went off to college, and he got the girl. I kept it inside because Rory and I made a pact that our friend, Amber, was off-limits. She was the beauty.ĭeep down, I only ever wanted her. Growing up, the three of us were friends. From New York Times best-selling author Penelope Ward comes a new, sexy standalone novel. On Wednesday, January 11, Ulrich will give a lecture entitled "Women's Activism in Early Utah" at the Salt Lake City Public Library.On Tuesday, January 10, Ulrich will speak at Benchmark Books, 3269 S Main St in Salt Lake City, at 6:00 p.m. For several years, I co-authored a column in Exponent II with Emma Lou, a well-know and much published poet and essayist. This book features personal essays and poems, mostly written in the 1970s and 1980s. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's books include A Midwife's Tale, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History and her new book A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Emma Lou Thayne, All Gods Critters Got a Place in Choir.She’s dedicated her career to telling the stories of early American women and helping modern women find their voices. 'Well-behaved women seldom make history' MaIntroduction Since Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich coined the phrase, Well-behaved women seldom make history. Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich grew up in Sugar City, Idaho, and in the late 50s, she figured she would just “get married and have children.” So it may surprise you to hear that she coined the phrase “well-behaved women seldom make history.” Ulrich is a Mormon, a feminist, a Harvard professor, and a Pulitzer Prize-winner. From admired historian-and coiner of one of feminisms most popular slogans-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make. The plotting wasn't perfect, but it was good. It's a shame, because with a better audio production this could have been fantastic. I didn't understand some of the narration choices - particularly in which characters had accents and which didn't. I really enjoyed the story on this one, but the audio production is not at the same level. Listened to Scholastic audio edition narrated by Charlie McWade. But Sage's rivals have their own agendas as well.Īs Sage moves from a rundown orphanage to Conner's sumptuous palace, layer upon layer of treachery and deceit unfold, until finally, a truth is revealed that, in the end, may very well prove more dangerous than all of the lies taken together.Īn extraordinary adventure filled with danger and action, lies and deadly truths that will have readers clinging to the edge of their seats.Īnd don't miss the highly anticipated fourth book in the series, The Captive Kingdom, coming October 2020! Read more Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword's point - he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. In a discontented kingdom, civil war is brewing. Matt Hern's voice ties this collection together, and guarantees built-in readership due to acclaim for his previous work on education, which includes Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader, Field Day: Getting Society Out of Schoool, and Deschooling Our Lives. The contributor line-up, which includes, Dan Savage, Noam Chomsky, and Grace Llewellyn ensures that this collection will be of interest not just to teens, but to adults who are interested to learn about the challenges today's radical youth face. It will resonate well with teens who are looking for peer-driven analyses of the issues that they face. The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn 5.0 Paperback (30-Year Anniversary) 23.00 Paperback 23.00 eBook 8. It chronicles the teens experiences after they left high school, and into their mid-twenties in the revised edition. This book is developed for youth, by youth. Llewellyns second book, Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Dont Go to School, provides excerpts from the journals of young people who took to heart the authors advice in The Teenage Liberation Handbook. The drive to publish this work came from frequent requests for a collection of this kind. While there are a handful of books available to help teenagers cope with different issues, such as Dan Savage's It Gets Better and Grace Llewellyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook, there is no collection that addresses such a broad array of issues-education, family, race, community, sex, drugs, relationships-central to growing up while maintaining your political identity. Again.īecause sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.Įven if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions. What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? But his latest novel, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, focuses on the side of a story that the genre rarely. A bold and irreverent YA novel that powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable, The Rest of Just Live Here is from novelist Patrick Ness, author of the Carnegie Medal- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winning A Monster Calls and the critically acclaimed Chaos Walking trilogy. Patrick Ness is no stranger to writing fantastical fiction for young adults. THE QUEER INDIE AWARDS 2022 - CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE THE LESFIC BARD AWARD 2022 - COVER DESIGN I Emily Banting is an award-winning and best-selling author of contemporary sapphic romance.īroken Beyond Repair, her first standalone novel, is the winner of Broken Beyond Repair, her first standalone novel, is the winner of THE LESFIC BARD AWARD 2022 - ROMANCE THE LESFIC BARD AWARD 2022 - COVER DESIGN THE QUEER INDIE AWARDS 2022 - CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE And a 2023 Goldie finalist in CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE LONG NOVEL THE ANN BANNON POPULAR CHOICE AWARD (Winners announced 1st July 2023) Join her Readers’ Club and receive a free sapphic novella Hit the "FOLLOW" button for notifications about offers and new releases! As an author of LGBTQ+ romance featuring sapphic main characters, I'm passionate about increasing the representation of sapphic women over forty in literature and on-screen. Emily Banting is an award-winning and best-selling author of contemporary sapphic romance. |