![]() ![]() The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal spent eighteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and appeared on hit bestseller lists in over a dozen countries. It was adapted into the hit motion picture 21. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, which spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The genre he’s created – cinematic and unique true stories of young geniuses battling their way through the grey area between right and wrong, and succeeding at all costs – includes the wildly successful Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. The reigning cowboy of narrative non-fiction with a writing career spanning nineteen years, Mezrich has authored twenty books – major international and New York Times bestsellers, with well over six million copies sold. Watch here or at the embedded video below. ![]() Mezrich will discuss what it's like having your book adapted by Aaron Sorkin, his research process, and more with Coolidge Director of Special Programming Mark Anastasio. National Center for Jewish Film Annual Festivalīestselling author Ben Mezrich joins us on Tuesday, June 16 at 8pm EST for a livestreamed discussion of The Social Network, which was adapted from his book The Accidental Billionaires. ![]()
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![]() ![]() November 2011: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi.November 2010: Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick.May 2015: The Game of Love & Death by Martha Brockenbrough.May 2013: The Hero’s Guide to Storming the Castle by Christopher Healy.May 2012: Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin.May 2010: Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley.March 2015: My Secret Guide to Paris by Lisa Schroeder.March 2011: The Body Finder series by Kimberly Derting.March 2010: The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg.June 2014: The Stepsister’s Tale by Tracy Barrett.July 2014: Brazen by Katherine Longshore.July 2013: The Watchers Series by Veronica Wolff.July 2012: Innocent Darkness by Suzanne Lazear.July 2011: The Revenant by Sonia Gensler.July 2010: The Naughty List by Suzanne Young.February 2015: I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios.February 2013: The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd.February 2012: A Beautiful Evil by Kelly Keaton.February 2011: Prom & Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg. ![]()
![]() ![]() In the second half of the 19th century, San Francisco established itself as America’s primary literary center west of the East Coast, due in large part to author Bret Harte and his literary journal The Overland Monthly. Though set during the Great Depression, Cannery Row is predominantly a lighthearted novel focusing on the camaraderie among the denizens of the district. Doc is beloved by his neighbors for his generosity and wisdom, so much so that the bums decide to throw him a party. In a neighborhood populated by quirky characters, the Row’s most unusual inhabitant is Doc, a marine biologist who runs a laboratory that sells sea creatures and other animals for scientific and educational use. In this district the reader finds the local grocery store run by a Chinese immigrant, a bordello operated by friendly prostitutes, and a vacant lot and unused building inhabited by bums and squatters. The title refers to a waterfront neighborhood in Monterey, California known for its sardine canneries. John Steinbeck’s novel Cannery Row was originally published in 1945. ![]() ![]() They have loved and appreciated the character depiction by Kylie Scott. Each one of them has been widely appreciated by the audience worldwide. Every novel of this series has succeeded in finding a place on the bookshelves of the fans of contemporary romance. Kylie Scott has set the stories in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Portland, Oregon. Some of the important characters mentioned in the series include Evelyn Thomas, Mal Ericson, Anne Rollins, Jimmy Ferris, Lena Morrissey, Lizzy Rollins, Ben Nicholson, Martha Nicholson, Sam Knowles, Ziggy Thayer, Mae Cooper, David Ferris, and a few others. Each novel of this series follows the life story of a different band member and how they go on to meet their lovers. She has shown hoe the rock-star lifestyles of the gorgeous band members get upended by the ladies who make them fall in love with them and steal their hearts. In this series, Kylie Scott has described the lives of the band members of the well-known band called Stage Dive. She started writing the series in 2013 and came up with the release of the first volume in the same year. ![]() It is written by a NY Times and the USA Today bestselling Australian writer named Kylie Scott. ![]() The Stage Dive series is an excellent series of adult fiction, romance, contemporary, chick-lit, humor, erotica, and new adult stories. ![]() ![]() Ramachandran invented mirror therapy which is now used to treat amputees with phantom limb pain and also to help restore motor control in stroke victims with weakened limbs. ![]() After early work on human vision, Ramachandran turned to work on wider aspects of neurology including phantom limbs and phantom pain. Most of his research has been in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics. Ramachandran is a distinguished professor in UCSD's Department of Psychology, where he is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition.Īfter earning a medical degree in India, Ramachandran studied experimental neuroscience at Cambridge, obtaining his PhD there in 1978. He is known for his wide-ranging experiments and theories in behavioral neurology, including the invention of the mirror box. ![]() Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (born 10 August 1951) is an Indian-American neuroscientist. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was such a good exploration of pent up emotions and the consequences of not talking. I loved the way it explored that pressure and the burden it put on people, Alex’s journey through protective denial and how it all spiralled into messy emotions at the end. And society “forgets” and buries it every time. Some just leave, form communes, or explore the stars. Set in 1950s and 1960s America, when the world becomes too limiting for women, they transform. WHEN WOMEN WERE DRAGONS is a book about identity and struggling to be you in a world that has rigid definitions. This book is one of those that is just so incredible I’m lost for words. ![]() ![]() Writing the review for WHEN WOMEN WERE DRAGONS is going to be one of the hard ones to write. It’s taboo to speak of, even more so than her crush on Sonja, her schoolmate.įorced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of dragons: a mother more protective than ever a father growing increasingly distant the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed and a new “sister” obsessed with dragons far beyond propriety. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex’s beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn’t know. But this version of 1950s America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes, this takes them to dangerous places. Time Travel technology allows Oxford historians of the future to travel back in time for research. ![]() If you’ve read my posts before, you know I am a sucker for a good time travel book. Set in an English town outside London, Years of Wonder focuses on Anna as her community deals with death, superstition, and paranoia, all while she falls in love. Years of Wonder: A Novel of the Plague by pulitzer prize winning Geraldine Brooksīrooks is best known for her novel March, but she also wrote a novel set during the plague. This was the first book on the Plague I read and I still think it’s a nice intro. This is still an academic nonfiction text, but a lot more accessible (and short!) if those Cohn books are overwhelming (or just not your cup of tea). In The Wake of the Plague by Norman Cantor ![]() ![]() ![]() You get to use the Sages power while in a dungeon but you can only keep it if you complete it. There are 6 "main" dungeons that you will need to complete to awaken all of the Sages but they are more like expanded Divine Beasts with a elemental theme. People are even datamining the game so be prepared for many spoilers. No point in me updating this thread anymore since in the hours to come, there will be a ton of information being shared. Invites were then disabled and a Tortoise Admin on the discord stated that they are uploading the leak to various filesharing websites.Ĭan confirm that the game is now out in the wild and can be played via Emulation or CFW Switch judging by the fact that people are even streaming it. About 1000 people were watching the stream. Invites were shared to this Discord server to the point the stream crashed. ![]() ![]() One of them posted a 15 Second video clip of the beginning area a few hours before this post was made.Ībout 20 minutes before this post was made, someone on discord SOMEHOW had dumped the XCI from the physical cart and was streaming it on Discord. One or more people had the physical game cart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reared on a cocktail of love and bottles of fat-enriched milk, Leo soon became an affectionate, rambunctious and adored member of the fmaily. Yet nothing prepared the Krugers for their greatest adventure of all, the raising of an orphaned prince, a lion cub who, when they found him, was only a few days old and on the verge of death. And one terrible day, a lion attacked Kobus in the bush and nearly killed him. They soon became accustomed to living with the unexpected: the sneaky hyenas who stole blankets and cooking pots, the sinister-looking pythons that slithered into the house, and the usually placid elephants who grew foul-tempered in the violent heat of the summer. Kobie recounts their enchanting adventures and extraordinary experiences in this vast reserve - a place where, bathed in golden sunlight, hippos basked in the glittering waters of the Letaba River, storks and herons perched along the shoreline, and fruit bats hung in the sausage trees.īut as the Krugers settled in, they discovered that not all was peace and harmony. Yet, for Kobie and her family, the seventeen years spent in this spectacularly beautiful park proved to be the most magical - and occasionally the most hair-raising - of their lives. When Kobie Krüger, her game-ranger husband and their three young daughters moved to one of the most isolated corners of the world - a remote ranger station in the Mahlangeni region of South Africa's vast Kruger National Park - she might have worried that she would become engulfed with loneliness and boredom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both are focused on those involved, get very personal and lots of feelings etc. This is book 2 which I thought was even better than book 1, Better Than People. Could go on listening forever as they continued and grew older. Is this what it feels like to have a home-and someone to share it with?īest Laid Plans was great. ![]() And the more time he spends with Charlie, the more he can see himself falling asleep in Charlie's arms…and waking up in them. But the longer he stays in Garnet Run, the more he can see himself belonging there. He isn't used to people wanting to put things back together-not the crumbling house he just inherited, not his future and certainly not him. Rye Janssen has spent his life breaking things. When the man comes in for the fifth time in a week, Charlie can't resist intervening. When a stranger with epic tattoos and a glare to match starts coming into Matheson's Hardware, buying things seemingly at random and lugging them off in a car so beat-up Charlie feels bad for it, his instinct is to help. ![]() He took care of the cat he found in the woods…so now he has a cat. He took care of his father's hardware store, building it into something known several towns over. When his parents died two days before his eighteenth birthday, he took care of his younger brother, even though that meant putting his own dreams on hold. A man who's been moving his whole life finally finds a reason to stay put.Ĭharlie Matheson has spent his life taking care of things. ![]() |