![]() ![]() Miranda is writing at the top of her game. Evocative descriptions of such activities as hiking and rafting contain an underlying sense of dread, and realistic characters match the tight plotting. The tension rises after Abby discovers what may be a key piece of evidence. Trey’s questions stir up the town sheriff, the local tavern’s owners, and a young man who leads ghost tours, making Abby feel even more like an outsider because she’s constantly left out of conversations and others don’t take her questions seriously. ![]() Four months later, Landon’s brother, Trey, arrives, determined to get some answers. She has never been frightened by the urban legend surrounding the disappearances, the most recent being that of journalist Landon West, who came to Cutter’s Pass to write about those who were lost without a trace before vanishing himself. Abby loves her position as manager of the upscale Passage Inn, though the mountain resort town’s permanent residents still treat her as an outsider. And that last word, no matter how profound or mundane, will vanish into silence along with the memory of Einstein and Elvis, Jesus, Buddha, Aretha and Eve, while the remaining bits of the physical. ![]() In this superb thriller from bestseller Miranda ( Such a Quiet Place), Cutter’s Pass, known as “the most dangerous town in North Carolina” because of a string of missing persons cases over the years, has been a refuge for the past decade for Abby Lovett. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Non-stop laughter, snark, and witty banter. "Delicious, sexy and wicked fun!" - New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter on Bear Meets Girl Praise for the novels of Shelly Laurenston "Non-stop laughter, snark, and witty banter." –SmexyBooks But no way can Finn have a houseful of honey badgers when he also has two brothers with no patience. The Siberian tiger shifter just can’t bear to see his fellow shifters harmed. ![]() And when she does, animal instinct tells him it'll be worth the wait. Welcome to the World of Shelly Laurenston It’s instinct that drives Finn Malone to rescue a bunch of hard battling honey badgers. Soon she'll realize how good they can be together. She may insist Bo's nothing but a pain in her delectable behind, but polar bears have patience in spades. Blayne has depths he hasn't yet begun to fathom-much as he'd like to. Blame it on her sweet sexiness-or his hunch that there's more to this little wolfdog than meets the eye. Bo knows it's good advice, but he can't leave Blayne be. Even if he has to drag her off to an isolated Maine town where the only neighbors are other bears almost as crazy as he is. ![]() Now he's shadowing her in New York-all seven-plus feet of him-determined to protect her from stalkers who want to use her in shifter dogfights. Ten years after Blayne Thorpe first encountered Bo Novikov, she still can't get the smooth-talking shifter out of her head. Like hard-muscled, shape-shifting Bo Novikov-part polar bear, part lion, pure alpha. "Shelly Laurenston's shifter books are full of oddball characters, strong females with attitude and dialogue that can have you laughing out loud." - The Philadelphia Inquirer Some men just have more to offer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He knows his situation is hopeless, and he's vowed to make the most of the handful of months he has left to him. 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You'll explore challenging concepts and practice with applications in computer vision, natural-language processing, and generative models. Written by Keras creator and Google AI researcher François Chollet, this book builds your understanding through intuitive explanations and practical examples. Behind this progress is deep learning-a combination of engineering advances, best practices, and theory that enables a wealth of previously impossible smart applications.ĭeep Learning with Python introduces the field of deep learning using the Python language and the powerful Keras library. We went from machines that couldn't beat a serious Go player, to defeating a world champion. ![]() ![]() We went from near-unusable speech and image recognition, to near-human accuracy. Machine learning has made remarkable progress in recent years. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. ![]() Deep Learning with Python introduces the field of deep learning using the Python language and the powerful Keras library. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hob, a commoner from the remote provinces, has been sent to the city to serve the Faeregines-and to spy on them. But the empress has other plans for her granddaughter, dark and dangerous plans to exploit Hazel’s talents and rekindle the Faeregine mystique. Hazel, the youngest member of the royal family, is happy to leave ruling to her sisters so that she can study her magic. Whether it’s treachery from a rival house, the demon Lirlanders, or rebel forces, many believe the Faeregines are ripe to fall. But the family’s magic has been fading, and with it their power over the empire. Impyrium follows two unlikely allies as they confront a conspiracy that will shake the world of Impyrium to its core.įor over three thousand years, the Faeregine dynasty has ruled Impyrium. ![]() ![]() ![]() The evaluation of current genetic analyses of ancient horse coat colors in light of the broader use of color terms in the Hebrew Bible produces translations of these terms that are as precise as possible, given current genetic evidence, and sensitive to the contours of the source and target languages. ![]() This list of genetically probable horse coat colors results from the integration of David Anthony's study of the initial domestication of horses with Arne Ludwig et al.'s genetic study of horse coat color in the ancient world. This article combines Athalya Brenner's textual analysis of the color terms in the Hebrew Bible with a list of genetically probable horse coat colors in Iron Age Israel in order to produce working translations of these terms for American audiences. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries-the source of the Indo-European languages and English-and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past. Recent genetic studies of the coat color of ancient horses prompt a new consideration of these terms in Zechariah. ![]() The color terms employed have long sparked debate about whether these horses have realistic or imaginative colors, the significance of these colors for the interpretation of Zechariah's visions, and whether technical or ordinary color terms are most appropriate for translating them today. The first and final visions of Zechariah include the Hebrew Bible's only descriptions of horses in terms of their color. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries-the source of the Indo-European languages and English-and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies…and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything. Because despite Christian’s cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she’s with him. ![]() But when a threat from her past drives her into the arms-and house-of the most dangerous man she’s ever met, she’s tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time. Between her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship. Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can’t refuse. She’s the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can’t solve. He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can’t deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him. He’ll do anything to have her…including lie.Ĭharming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman. ![]() Special edition with a beautiful shiny cover! Discover the addictive world of the Twisted series that has readers obsessed, a viral TikTok sensation! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And I hate myself, too, because I'm so fucking stupid to yell at a guard, and now I have to bow down and count on your mercy not to throw me in the brig or disappear me like all those other people who just wanted to live."* I hate you so much right now because you can shoot me for no reason at all and no one will say a word. ![]() "I can't even make a goddamn phone call to hear my boyfriend's voice without begging. ![]() Her vocabulary is limited and her dialogue, at times, is just plain insulting: These scenes are always awkward because Layla and her Jewish boyfriend, David, share no chemistry. She has a grating obsession with her boyfriend, often risking her family's safety just to sneak a few kisses with him. Speaking of characters, Layla is not a sympathetic protagonist. Internment doesn't read like a well-defined character exploring complex themes it reads like an author saying, "Open wi-ide!" and shoving food into baby's mouth. Everything is blatantly on the nose, spelled out in forceful terms for an audience of readers who, apparently, cannot be trusted to think for themselves. Delivery of ideals and themes is heavy-handed. According to Ahmed, Internment takes place ' "fifteen minutes" into America's future.'* It's a terrifying "What if?" that sees seventeen-year-old Muslim American Layla, and her family, gathered against their will and shipped to an interment camp for Muslims who have been labeled prisoners of war.īlunt is the word best-used to describe this book. A powerful premise that crumbles under weak execution. ![]() ![]() In that hour, the uranium, whose particles obey the laws of quantum mechanics, has some chance of emitting radiation that will then be picked up by the Geiger counter, which will, in turn, release the hammer and smash the vial, killing the cat by cyanide poisoning. ![]() ![]() The box is sealed, and the experiment is left to run for some set amount of time, perhaps an hour. Inside the box, there's also a kitty (and remember, this is a thought experiment that's never actually been carried out). The apparatus consists of a box with a sealed vial of cyanide, above which is suspended a hammer attached to a Geiger counter aimed at a small lump of mildly radioactive uranium. ![]() A physicist named Adam Mann attempted to provide a simple explanation of this notoriously complicated thought problem by explaining it in the following manner: this experiment asks what would happen if one builds a strange contraption. One notable example that comes to mind is the problem of Schrodinger’s cat. But even though this exercise aims to suspend the use of rational thought, it still bears a striking similarity to many philosophical and scientific exercises. ![]() |