![]() ![]() She doesn’t need a six-foot-five, motorcycle-riding, square-jawed, hazel-eyed man-beast shadowing her every move. Sacrifice her privacy to an overprotective bodyguard? No thanks. And that attempted mugging in her parking garage might not have been a random attack.īut she’s totally got this. Sure, she’s living with the threat of a potential sex scandal thanks to her lying ex. My shield.”Ĭameron Whitbury-billionaire aerospace mogul-can engineer her way out of any problem. I wanted to feel like I didn’t have to be brave for a few hours. “I wanted this man’s arms around me, cocooning me in safety. To my fellow lady bosses, Lucy, Kathryn, and Pippa. Any resemblance to actual people, places, or events is purely coincidental or fictionalized.Įdited by Elayne Morgan of Serenity Editing Services ![]() ![]() Any names, characters, places, or incidents are products of the author’s imagination and used in a fictitious manner. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. ![]()
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This changes everything capitalism7/4/2023 ![]() is particularly well structured.ĥ – Solid. ![]() A helpful and/or enlightening book that stands out by at least one aspect, e.g. contains uncommonly novel ideas and presents them in an engaging manner.Ħ – Notable. A helpful and/or enlightening book that combines two or more noteworthy strengths, e.g. presents the latest findings in a topical field and is written by a renowned expert but lacks a bit in style.ħ – Good. A helpful and/or enlightening book that has a substantial number of outstanding qualities without excelling across the board, e.g. A helpful and/or enlightening book that is extremely well rounded, has many strengths and no shortcomings worth mentioning.Ĩ – Very good. Often an instant classic and must-read for everyone.ĩ – Superb. A helpful and/or enlightening book that, in addition to meeting the highest standards in all pertinent aspects, stands out even among the best. ![]() Here's what the ratings mean:ġ0 – Brilliant. Books we rate below 5 won’t be summarized. ![]() ![]() Our rating helps you sort the titles on your reading list from solid (5) to brilliant (10). We rate each piece of content on a scale of 1–10 with regard to these two core criteria. Helpful – You’ll take-away practical advice that will help you get better at what you do. Whatever we select for our library has to excel in one or the other of these two core criteria:Įnlightening – You’ll learn things that will inform and improve your decisions. At getAbstract, we summarize books* that help people understand the world and make it better. ![]() The Sixth Man by David Baldacci7/3/2023 ![]() It’s seared into Atlee Pine’s memory: the kidnapper’s chilling rhyme as he chose between six-year-old Atlee and her twin sister, Mercy. The Sixth Man is followed by the sixth and final book in the thrilling series, King and Maxwell. by David Baldacci Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. ![]() Could this increasingly deadly case be the one that leaves the duo permanently parted? On the way to the meeting, King and Maxwell discover his dead body.Īs King and Maxwell dig into Roy's past, the more they are bombarded with obstacles, half-truths and dead ends that make filtering the facts from fiction nearly impossible.Ī rush of terrifying events unfold that will push King and Maxwell to the limit. Roy's lawyer - and King's former mentor - calls on the pair of former Secret Service agents to look into the case. ![]() The government's uniquely talented, top-tier intelligence analyst, Edgar Roy, is arrested for mass murder and locked away in a psychiatric unit. The Sixth Man King and Maxwell, Book 5 By: David Baldacci Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins 4.3 out of 5 stars 4.3. ![]() ![]() The fifth book in the heart-stopping King and Maxwell series, The Sixth Man by David Baldacci will keep pulses racing as Sean King and Michelle Maxwell face their next great challenge. David Baldacci signed first edition book Sixth Man Now Available Choose from over 50000 books from the premier collectible book site David Baldacci Book. ![]() The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() You, cousins, are the children of the ones who stayed. & the borders cut sloppily as beginner’s cloth. She avoids accusation, taking an observatory perspective, giving all credit to the Eritreans who stayed, she being one of the Eritreans who left.īetter. ![]() Girmay quickly dives into the recent history of Eritrea. Girmay begins with an introduction, “elelegy,” a word conjured up from the English elegy and the ululation sounds, elelelele, made in Eritrea and other parts of North and East Africa. The title of the collection-taken from the plural of the Latin word mare, meaning “sea,”-was used by early astronomers to refer to the dark, flat surfaces of the moon they believed were filled with water, a landscape as forbidding and alien as the Atlantic was during the five centuries of the West African slave trade, and as the Mediterranean and other seas are today for migrants and refugees. Thus Aracelis Girmay’s new poetry collection, The Black Maria-a haunting, blistering, vital examination of the African diaspora from 15th-century slave ships to Neil deGrasse Tyson-is a book of memories and seas. The brutal Middle Passage across the Atlantic is one of the most painful chapters in the history of forced African American migration. ![]() Red Azalea by Anchee Min7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Many times, friends betray each other and even Anchee betrays her favorite teacher. ![]() In many relationships within the novel, dysfunction from paranoia and suspicion has taken its toll. ![]() She never forgets this and it sets the tone for paranoia in the book, since it constitutes the first time her allegiance to Mao has caused something so serious to happen. When Anchee participates in the public shaming of her favorite teacher, she willingly participates, but this leaves her aware of the fact that, in the future, perhaps someone will lie about her the way she has lied here. Anchee must learn the hard way that success in Maoist China is not success worth having. She seeks the approval of the state by her religious allegiance to Mao, but most of all, she seeks her own approval and fails to gain it, because she knows she is not being successful. She seeks the approval of others with her school grades. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĪnchee is seeking approval in almost every arena of the novel. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached7/3/2023 ![]() Thank you for allowing me to review this beautiful graphic novel.īaby Zeina, who knew nothing about the Lebanese Civil War, was gently tossed into the middle of it when she was born in 1981. I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Lerner Publishing Group, Graphic Universe and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. It's really great and I'd like to see more graphic work by this author. I love young Zeina's wavy hair, and the map with fish where water should be. It's black and white with clean lines and beautiful patterns. ![]() Life in a warzone isn't much fun and that's mostly the feeling you get here.īut the artwork is stunning, and really why anyone should read this. Along the way, the family got to do normal family kinds of things. She talks about living in what the school thought was the neutral zone, so they had to be driven out of their neighborhood to a bus stop. Then again, she was just a child, so perhaps my expectations were a bit high. ![]() The art is fantastic, but I kind of wanted something more. 'I Remember Beirut' by Zeina Abirached is her memoir of growing up in Beirut during the Christian and Muslim war in the 1980s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, making the ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth the heir presumptive. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female head of state in history.Įlizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and was head of state of 15 realms at the time of her death. Speech on her 21st birthday in Cape Town, South AfricaĮlizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. ![]() Ready player one by ernest cline7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I first showed up there was a copy of it, a dog-eared copy of my paperback right next to his copy of the script. What was amazing is that Steven gave all the different departments copies of my book, and he was always referencing my book on the set. At the recent press day for the film in Los Angeles, we spoke with Cline about Spielberg’s film, where he thinks the technology of virtual reality is taking us, and his plans for a second novel set in the Ready Player One universe. The movie sets out to both celebrate that decade’s entertainment while also cautioning against the dangers of disconnecting oneself from the real world entirely. Seven years later, Cline’s novel has been brought to life on the screen by Steven Spielberg, a director whose own films were such a powerful part of the cultural iconography that permeates Cline’s novel (and now the movie, for which Cline co-wrote the screenplay with Zak Penn). Set in a dystopian future where people lead virtual second lives inside a giant simulated reality known as the Oasis, the book touched on the coming advances in virtual reality, our growing reliance on and addiction to the Internet, our endless fascination with video games and a generational obsession with the touchstones and icons of ‘80s pop culture, from the movies to the games to the music. In 2011, a screenwriter named Ernest Cline published his first novel, Ready Player One. ![]() A trial of sorcerers7/2/2023 ![]() Readers should begin with A Trial of Sorcerers before reading A Hunt of Shadows. The only way to kill a legendary champion, will be to become one herself.Įxperience Eira’s adventure in the A Trial of Sorcerers series by USA Today bestselling author Elise Kova today, for readers who enjoy young adult, epic fantasy, filled with sorcery, deep friendships, forbidden romance, and tales of faraway lands.Ī Hunt of Shadows takes place after the events of A Trial of Sorcerers. She’ll have to love deeper and fight fiercer than ever before. The woman she was won’t be enough to turn the tides churning against her from long before she was born. When Eira is captured by her enemies, it’s not only her life, but the lives of her friends, and the man she loves most, at stake. And Eira finds herself tangled in the dangerous web of the undercity of Risen where the mysterious Court of Shadows and lethal Pillars battle for the fate of the kingdom.īut vengeance has a price. ![]() ![]() She’s off to a land she’s only dreamed about. The second book in A Trial of Sorcerers is filled with forbidden magic, shadowy intrigue, heart-pounding action, and slow-burn romance.Įira is now a champion of the Solaris Empire. ![]() The Singularity by Mark Rodseth7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() langchain: A custom package that provides a set of tools for building natural language models.In this code, it is used to build the user interface for the vehicle recommendation engine. streamlit: Streamlit is a Python library used to create web applications quickly.The app was developed using Python and some notable libraries include: The idea here is to allow the user free reign to tell the chatbot what they are after in their own personal style, and use the magic of a GPT model to turn that into something useable by downstream search APIs. Vehicle recommendation engines often require users to explicitly set their preferences which are then used to find matching vehicles. Step1: User writes their preferences into a chat prompt. ![]() The conversation flow goes as follows with interactions between the user, the Chatbot, GPT (or LLM of your choice), and the vehicle search engine. The results are enriched with informative details about each car and justification as to why it was recommended. The app we’re going to unpack is a used-car recommendation Chatbot that returns a list of recommended vehicles based on what you (informally) state your preferences are. (PS Using cats plus generative AI is not entirely original, I must confess, as is evidenced by. I’ve added a cute story map with a cat (yep, CatGPT) into this post to try make it stand out from the rest. In case you’ve run out of AI based content to read, here is another one for your list. ![]() Cat Used Car Salesmen courtesy of MidJourney ![]() |