5/28/2023 0 Comments The sun does shine![]() ![]() Hinton’s book is not just another tragic incident that puts an innocent Black man in prison to capture the brutality of racism and injustice, but it is a story of “Belief. Have you ever read a book where the foreword narrates the gist of the entire story ahead, but instead of putting it aside, you become even more keen to immerse yourself in it? This is what Anthony Ray Hinton’s chronicle, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, entails as he hopefully waits for justice and freedom in the span of thirty years for a crime which he did not even commit. Book: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin, New York: St. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan, badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity. ![]() The Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows Audiobook Summary How to get celebrity voices with text to speech.Everything you need to know about text to speech on TikTok.Alternatives to Google Cloud Text to Speech.Text to speech tools to address ADHD challenges.How text to speech helps an Individualized Education Program.Text to speech for Disabled Students Allowance.AI Voice Over Convert your content into a voice over and download it as an. ![]() Voice Over Studio Create human-quality voice over for all your content.How To Win Friends And Influence People.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Audio.Audiobooks Provide a large catalog of audiobooks with high-quality narration.Mac app Listen everywhere on your computer.Android app Listen on the go on your Android device.iPhone & iPad app Listen on the go on your Apple devices.Chrome extension Listen to Google docs, web articles, Gmail, Twitter, and more.Online Listen and organize your files in your browser.Text-to-speech Listen to docs, articles, PDFs, email – anything you usually read. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Trina robbins wonder woman![]() ![]() Pretty In Ink among other works written by Trina Robbins, at The Most Amazing Collectables Show. ![]() 1980 Trina Robbins with Bill Woggon, the artist and creator of Katy Keene comics. Trina Robbins comments on DC Comics’ the New 52 Wonder Woman near the end. Article contentĬheck out this podcast of the extended interview. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. For now, I’m happy she is writing for graphic novels and comics, especially since her publication is very positive for woman and girls. However, I optimistically hope that Trina will draw again. As a visual artist myself, I can understand her feelings and her testimony was painful to hear. Her explanation was complicated but it could be compiled in a few words: “No one wanted me” (as a cartoonist). ![]() “Why no more art from Trina Robbins?” I asked during the 45-minute interview. 1986 The Legend of Wonder Woman #1 artwork by Trina Robbins 1986 The Legend of Wonder Woman #1 artwork by Trina Robbins I loved Trina’s simple and technical drawing style - her depiction of the Golden Age Wonder Woman reflected the style of H.G Peter, the comic’s original artist. Trina signed all four of my 1986 The Legend of Wonder Woman comics and graciously acceded to my request to dedicate one to my twin sister. ![]() The next issue of Sunrise presented by Vancouver Sun will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Savage season joe r lansdale![]() ![]() To Hap and Leonard, something dont smell right. Before she disappeared, Florida was digging up some dirt behind the mysterious jailhouse death of a legendary bluesmans son, who was in possession of some priceless merchandise. In this rollicking, rollercoaster ride of a novel, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take a break from their day jobs to search for Florida Grange, Leonards drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Haps former lover, who has vanished in the Klan-infested East Texas town of Grovetown. Full of savage humor, heart-stopping suspense, and a cast of characters so tough they could chew the bumper off a pickup truck, The Two Bear Mambo is classic country noir. ![]() Book Synopsis The basis for the third season of the new Sundance TV series Hap and Leonard coming Spring 2018. Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the investigating the good ol boy cops cant-or wont-do themselves. About the Book Florida Grange, Leonards gorgeous lawyer and Haps former lover, has vanished while in pursuit of the real story behind a jailhouse death. ![]() ![]() ![]() Â Meanwhile in London, Molly has married George Darling and is raising three children: Wendy, Michael, and John. Since then, nobody on the island has grown a day older, and the Lost Boys continue their friendship with the Mollusk tribe, and their rivalry with Captain Hook. The year is 1901-it's been twenty-three years since Peter and the Lost Boys returned from Rundoon. Bone-crushing waves eventually land our characters on Mollusk Island - where the action really heats up.Peter and the Starcatchers is brimming with richly developed characters, from the scary but somehow familiar Black Stache and the ferocious Mister Grin to the sweet but sophisticated Molly and the fearless Peter. ![]() Towering seas and a violent storm are the backdrop for battles at sea. ![]() Aboard the Never Land is a trunk that holds a magical substance with the power to change the fate of the world - just a sprinkle and wounds heal just a dusting and people can fly. This riveting adventure takes listeners on a journey from a harsh orphanage in old England to a treacherous sea in a decrepit old tub. Barrie's beloved Peter Pan.In an evocative and fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island, an orphan boy named Peter and his mysterious new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil. ![]() Best-selling authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have turned back the clock and revealed a wonderful story that precedes J. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Salman rushdie quixote![]() Instead of Don Quixote’s old nag Rocinante, Quichotte drives an old Chevy Cruze across the United States. The novel also features Sancho as his son, a modern substitute for the original squire, Sancho Panza, and Salma R (a near homonym of Salman), an opioid-addicted talk-show host who stands in for Dulcinea del Toboso, a promiscuous pig raiser who is elevated to the status of royalty and female perfection by Don Quixote. Quichotte, Rushdie’s latest novel (his 14th, short-listed for this year’s Booker Prize) features a parodic descendent of Don Quixote - Quichotte (adopted from the title of Jules Massenet’s opera Don Quichotte, first performed in 1910). It attracted 50 percent more votes than any other book, including those by Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy. In 2002, the Guardian surveyed 100 of the “world’s best authors” (including Salman Rushdie) regarding which book was the best of all time. ![]() ![]() AFTER THE BIBLE, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is said to be the best-selling book of all time, with estimated sales of 500 million copies. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments 4th captain underpants book![]() ![]() Yes, it’s primarily third-grade boy humor, like making the talking toilets throw up by stuffing them with creamed chipped beef from the school cafeteria, but it’s also quite fun. ![]() However, I found the text to have some challenging vocabulary (when reading with my Reading Buddy, Bradley, we looked up “defiantly” and “gullible” in the dictionary, and I defined “toupee”), some important concepts (we talked about the difference between one dimensional, two dimensional, and three dimensional), and even irony. ![]() The books have lots of drawings, including a few pages of George and Harold’s actual comic book, as well a “flip pages” where the action is entirely in pictures. Due to some accident that occurs in the first Captain Underpants book, their principal is occasionally hypnotized to believe he is Captain Underpants, during which time he sheds his clothes and his toupee and runs around the school in his tightie-whities with a curtain tied around his neck. ![]() George and Harold are two bright yet… precocious young men who write their own comic books about a character they call Captain Underpants. Not to the point that I feel like I need to read another one, but certainly more than I expected. You know, I almost don’t want to admit it, but I enjoyed Captain Underpants. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Gregor the overlander book 1![]() ![]() It is then that he learns the real reason for the rats' hatred of Overlanders: a mysterious prophecy written by the human colony's founder Bartholomew of Sandwich hints that an Overland "warrior" will stop an attempt by the rats to take over the underground realm once and for all. At first, Gregor wants only to return home, but when he is attacked by two rats during an escape attempt and saved by the Underlanders, he inadvertently brings the conflict between the two groups to a head. They meet several "Underlanders", among them the Regalians' crown princess Luxa, her cousin Henry, and the bats who are "bonded" to them. The two fall miles below into the Underland: a subterranean world home to humans with near-translucent skin giant sentient bats, rodents, and insects and an escalating conflict between the human city of Regalia and the rats' King Gorger. ![]() When Gregor's baby sister Boots falls through an old air duct grate in the building's basement, he dives in after her. Eleven-year-old Gregor is left home alone in his family's New York City apartment to watch his sister and grandmother. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments A cavern of black ice![]() For every thousand years, one is born with the power to free the Endlords from their prison, the Blind. Lately though he seems to be taking an unnatural amount of interest in her, and, learning of one of his machinations, she also flees. In the city of Spire Vanis, the surlord, Penthero Iss keeps his adopted daughter (or, as he calls her, his almost-daughter), Ash March, in virtual - if comfortable - house arrest. Some, though, remember that darker days than night lie ahead. and worse, he will later be held responsible for the cruelties the new chief inflicts upon the other clans, the atrocities that force them into an all-consuming war. Raif alone challenges his lies, and ends up fleeing the clan (with the help of his uncle, Angus Lok, member of a mysterious society, the Phage), breaking a sacred oath - he is now an outcast. He is now chief, and is doing everything possible to quell their suspicions. They alone know of the treachery that went on, and that a fellow survivor - Mace Blackhail - was responsible. When a hunting party for the clan Bludd is viciously attacked, Raif Sevrance and his older brother, Drey, survive. ![]() With the recent publication of A Sword From Red Ice, the third part in J.V Jones' fantasy series, Sword of Shadows (originally a trilogy, but now something much larger), I decided it was time I got around to reading this exciting series, especially after her earlier trilogy, The Book of Words. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Human compatible book![]() This new foundation would allow us to create machines that are provably deferential and provably beneficial. Such machines would be humble, altruistic, and committed to pursue our objectives, not theirs. How can we ensure they never, ever, have power over us? Russell suggests that we can rebuild AI on a new foundation, according to which machines are designed to be inherently uncertain about the human preferences they are required to satisfy. If the predicted breakthroughs occur and superhuman AI emerges, we will have created entities far more powerful than ourselves. He also spells out the ways humans are already finding to misuse AI, from lethal autonomous weapons to viral sabotage. He describes the near-term benefits we can expect, from intelligent personal assistants to vastly accelerated scientific research, and outlines the AI breakthroughs that still have to happen before we reach superhuman AI. Russell begins by exploring the idea of intelligence in humans and in machines. ![]() In this groundbreaking book, distinguished AI researcher Stuart Russell argues that this scenario can be avoided, but only if we rethink AI from the ground up. Conflict between humans and machines is seen as inevitable and its outcome all too predictable. ![]() In the popular imagination, superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just jobs and human relationships, but civilization itself. A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with increasingly intelligent machines ![]() |