![]() ![]() ![]() A corpsea murder victimhas gone missing during the middle of an investigation, and no one has any clue where it went. Even with my eyes, it’s going to take some digging to get to the truth. I've investigated some pretty strange cases in my life, but I have to say this is a first. This case is complicated and strange, and absolutely nothing is as it seems at first glance. ![]() It’s a four hour drive outside of Nashville, to a place famous for being haunted, so none of us are particularly eager to go.Īnd then we arrive on scene and I see who we’re dealing with and I want nothing more than to turn around and go right back to Nashville. Psy is called in to clear the investigative team, make sure they’re not an accomplice. 6x9 Paperback of Jons Spooky Corpse Conundrum, Book 3 of Jons Mysteries. A corpse-a murder victim-has gone missing during the middle of an investigation, and no one has any clue where it went. I’ve investigated some pretty strange cases in my life, but I have to say this is a first. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And in my humble opinion, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs actually seems to combine two European folklore traditions, the legend of the Land of Cockaigne, the so-called Schlaraffenland, a utopian land of milk and honey, where residents do not have to work and where food is not only readily available, but where fish, already cooked, swim in the rivers, and the houses are made of gingerbread and candies, and indeed the many folklore stories presenting uncontrollable cooking and food (often with magic pots that continue cooking porridge etc. While Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is of course first and foremost simply a fun romp, both Judi Barret’s narrative and Ron Barrett’s accompanying artwork also manage to convey rather vividly how food can become a rather massive problem when it is uncontrollable or uncontrolled. ![]() ![]() Thoreau is now a canonical American literary figure, studied in every high school for his lyrical masterpiece, Walden. One especially committed opponent was a writer from Massachusetts called Henry David Thoreau. Polk was a popular president, admired by many for his gung-ho manner, but a sizeable minority of the citizenry disliked him intensely. To complete the picture, Polk was a vigorous defender of slavery, who dismissed the arguments of abolitionists as naive and sentimental. Within a year of his inauguration, he had declared full-scale war on Mexico because of squabbles over the Texan border, and was soon rattling his saber at Britain over the ownership of Oregon. ![]() Polk – a forceful, aggressive political outsider intent on strengthening his country and asserting its pre-eminence in front of other world powers, especially Mexico and Great Britain. ![]() ![]() In March 1845, the United States acquired a new president – James K. ![]() ![]() Although Georgie’s drop-dead gorgeous, she’s also everything Andrew resents: the type of girl who inherited her penthouse instead of earning it. ![]() Teasing him is the most fun Georgie’s had in years-and the fuel for all her naughtiest daydreams.Ĭelebrity divorce attorney Andrew Mulroney doesn’t have much time for women, especially spoiled tabloid princesses who spend more time on Page Six than at an actual job. Though Georgie would never admit it, the highlights of her week are the mornings when she comes home at the same time as her uptight, workaholic neighbor is leaving to hit the gym and put in a long day at the office. Pampered heiress Georgianna Watkins has a party-girl image to maintain, but all the shopping and clubbing is starting to feel a little bit hollow-and a whole lot lonely. ![]() Sparks fly between a misunderstood New York socialite and a cynical divorce lawyer in this lively standalone rom-com from the USA Today bestselling author of Blurred Lines and Love Story. ![]() ![]() The letters he wrote in response helped form the basis of his Thoughts on Government, which appeared as a pamphlet in Philadelphia and, months later, in Boston. This question weighed on William Hooper (1742–1790) and John Penn (1740–1788), Continental Congress delegates from North Carolina, when they asked Adams to share his thoughts. How best to account for people’s capacity for vice when constructing governments designed to protect individuals’ rights and promote their virtue? His understanding of human nature made him wary that people might use government to promote their own interests at the expense of others and bolster their own power to the detriment of others. ![]() Like Thomas Paine’s Common Sense or Abigail Adams’s startling suggestion that members of Congress “remember the ladies,” John Adams’s Thoughts on Government revealed an optimistic sense of possibility.īut Adams was not optimistic about all things. ![]() ![]() The first half of 1776-a no man’s land between inclusion in the British empire and American independence-provided a fertile environment for the cultivation of new ideas as well as the grafting of traditional practices to new circumstances. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By choosing Anne, she would lose this hedonistic lifestyle and her close relationship with her father, but would gain guidance, discipline, and the maternal figure which she had previously lacked (her mother being dead). Cécile repeatedly finds herself caught between the prospect of stability and motherly love that Anne offers, and her existing life of boundless revelry. The radical new ideas these philosophers proposed were central to Sagan’s novel and helped to shape a sexually-liberated, intelligent, and complex female protagonist: Cécile. She had been skipping school and getting stuck into French café society, where she became acquainted with the existentialist writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Francoise Sagan was 19 at the time of publishing. ![]() That is until the arrival of Anne, a highly accomplished and educated woman in her 40s who charms Cécile’s father with her beauty and intelligence. Set in the French riviera, the 17-year-old Cécile, her debauched father Raymond and his 20-something mistress Elsa enjoy a summer holiday full of hedonistic pleasures, encountering casual sex, fast cars, and heavy drinking. The whole setup was ultimately a recipe for misogynistic disaster.įrancoise Sagan’s debut novel Bonjour Tristesse made her an overnight sensation in 1950s France, where she sold over 500,000 copies within 12 months. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, including a range of voices and perspectives ended up with a more nuanced, successful product. When it comes to developing personal assistants for business people, interviewing people that aren’t in your target market flies in the face of some conventional customer-first product development ethos. Holmes also learned more about how a digital assistant should work and interact with people by talking to actual human assistants, adding a further layer of depth to the product’s design process. “There are many kinds of human expertise that are missing from most design processes.” ![]() “It became clear we had a lot to learn from people who had been using voice and speech-based technologies to interact with computers for decades,” said Holmes. Facing the daunting challenge of developing a voice-powered digital assistant, Holmes realized that voice-powered technology was not brand new to the world. When Holmes was at Microsoft, she was tasked with working on a personal digital assistant, the technology that would eventually become Microsoft Cortana. Inclusive design means better products for everyone ![]() ![]() ![]() “Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot” by Peter Crane But along the way, readers also find out many surprising facts about trees’ own capabilities, including how they communicate, protect themselves and each other, and even give back to forests after death.Īfter finishing the novel, many readers had one question for Powers: what books about trees did he read to inform this one?īelow, Powers shares his bibliography for “The Overstory” – 26 books that contain a wide range of information about trees, from how the American Chestnut disappeared to histories of radical forest activism. ![]() Richard Powers’ “The Overstory” is a fictional book about trees and a group of people who decide to defend them. ![]() Our November pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Richard Powers’ “The Overstory.” Become a member of the Now Read This book club by joining our Facebook group, or by signing up to our newsletter. ![]() ![]() “We all know what we do here,” says Alkaitis, as he sits them down to a final meeting about the “arrangement” in the 17th floor offices in the Gradia Building (in Station Eleven an Air Gradia jet held quarantined passengers who never disembarked), but some refuse to admit that they did know. From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilaratin. ![]() ![]() Mandel is brilliant at describing America’s “shadow country” of displaced persons that some of Alkaitis’s victims enter after they lose all their money, as well as the way it’s possible “to know and not know something”, as Oskar, one of the senior employees, puts it when giving his testimony in court. Read 14,039 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. But while incarcerated he’s plagued by apparitions – an expanding crowd of his dead investors. ![]() When Alkaitis is in prison (his sentence, at 170 years, is even longer than Madoff’s) he slips in and out of fantasies of a “counterlife” in which he manages to escape arrest. It’s far less apocalyptic than a pandemic, of course, but the suddenness of Alkaitis’s fall, once his Ponzi collapses, is comparable to the onset of the Georgia flu in Station Eleven, when it was “possible to comprehend the scope of the outbreak” but not to understand what it meant.Ĭharacters flit in and out, connected to each other by threads that converge and separate (the large cast can be hard to keep tabs on at times, but Mandel is skilled at multiple timelines and points of view and bringing a character back into focus). ![]() ![]() There’s Cere Junda, Cal’s Jedi Master who has grown to re-connect with the Force through and after the events of Fallen Order. There’s the heroic Jedi Cal Kestis, whose ambition and abilities make him the de facto leader of the team, both to guide the others but also to draw attention away from them in emergency. There’s a five-year gap between those games, which means that there is plenty of time to explore, and when we meet the heroes at the beginning of Battle Scars it’s clear that they’ve grown into a tight family who work extremely well together. ![]() Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars is written by Sam Maggs (in her first full-length Star Wars novel) and tells a story with the Mantis crew in-between Fallen Order and Survivor. ![]() To celebrate the release of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor this weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to take a look back at a book that released last month, one that ties in to the game quite well. ![]() |