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![]() An independent woman, Kim takes matters into her own hands when she decides that her stalker is Kyle Stannard, a former male model disfigured by a terrible accident. ![]() Though she confides in her partner, Chris, his home in Devon is far from her work in Cheltenham, and not just in terms of distance. Several unsolicited packages contain objects, like a mirror, that remind Kim of her own scars, emotional and otherwise. Kim wants others to make peace with their physical beings the way she feels she has, but that sense of peace is put into question when it becomes clear that someone has taken an unpleasantly intense interest in her. A childhood accident that left her face scarred attracted Kim to her specialty as an adult: working with young women with eating disorders. ![]() Though she’s a clinical psychologist focused on helping people feel sane, Kim Slade fears she may be losing her mind. A stalking victim is convinced that she’s the only one who can catch the perp-even when the police wonder if she’s doing the stalking. ![]() ![]() ![]() But… as the wedding planning continues, and the two of them are forced to work together, they discover that they might just be good with one another.Jace might think that Dinky is too impulsive to consider a “forever” together, but he’s about to get a lesson in real spontaneity… They’re total opposites, and definitely not good for each other. No hardship at all… until Dinky meets her handsome co-planner, the groom’s Best Man.Jace Cunningham is everything that artistic Dinky isn’t: stable, responsible, uptight, and mouth-wateringly gorgeous. ![]() Luckily, this isn’t a big deal, because a) Dinky is able to fit her entire life-including her pet hedgehog-into her beat-up sedan, and b) her sister lives at a beautiful tourist-destination ranch. When she offers to help plan her older sister’s wedding, Dinky Redfern knows that she’ll have to pack up everything and move to Idaho temporarily. ![]() ![]() And as always, one wrong move and they’re dead (whether at the hands of their opponents, a teammate, or Waller herself). Trekking through a jungle teeming with militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn, the Squad is on a search-and-destroy mission with only Colonel Rick Flag on the ground to make them behave…and Amanda Waller’s government techies in their ears, tracking their every movement. ![]() Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Today’s do-or-die assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and everyone’s favorite psycho, Harley Quinn. Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out-even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. ![]() Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. Starring: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Peter Capaldi, David Dastmalchian, Daniela Melchior, Michael Rooker, Alice Braga, Pete Davidson, Nathan Fillion, Sean Gunn, Flula Borg, Mayling Ng, Sylvester Stallone, and Viola Davis ![]() ![]() It can stretch and tangle, but never can it break." The reader discovers how that red thread has knotted and entangled three generations of Leong women: matriarch Lin her daughter-in-law, Amy and Amy's daughter, Theresa. The ancient Chinese proverb featured in Diamond Head is the invisible red string that "connects destined lovers, despite time or place or circumstance. There is a formula to these books, which includes headstrong women who often make the wrong choice, a liberal sprinkling of allusions to ancient Chinese proverbs, and flashbacks to a pre-communist China rife with superstition, tradition, and betrayal. Add to the list Cecily Wong's debut novel, Diamond Head. Recent examples of books with these covers are Amy Tan's The Valley of Amazement, Lisa See's Dreams of Joy, and Jennifer Cody Epstein's The Painter from Shanghai. One step removed from the bodice-ripper, the genre could be called a cheongsam-ripper (for the traditional one-piece dress), inevitably featuring family secrets, thwarted love, and girls sold into concubinage or prostitution. And a close-up of a woman that does not show her whole face but usually includes lush lips and/or a high-standing mandarin collar means a multigenerational saga of a family of Chinese women. ![]() A chesty woman swooning in the arms of a muscular man signals a bodice-ripper. ![]() If there is a gun sight on it, it's a thriller. Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() My most recent is Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime. I've written a few books, both popular-level and textbook-level. I also wrote a personal narrative as part of applying for a Guggenheim fellowship. ![]() You can see the transcript or the audio version. ![]() See my research page or annotated publications for more details.įor some biographical background, I did an oral history interview for the American Institute of Physics. These days my focus has shifted to more foundational questions, both in quantum mechanics (origin of probability, emergence of space and time) and statistical mechanics (entropy and the arrow of time, emergence and causation, dynamics of complexity), bringing a more philosophical dimension to my work. Most of my career has been spent doing research on cosmology, field theory, and gravitation, looking at topics such as dark matter and dark energy, modified gravity, topological defects, extra dimensions, and violations of fundamental symmetries. I'm the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy - in effect, a joint appointment between physics and philosophy - at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A sincere (and humorous) exploration of how we all feel invisible at one time or another.perfect read." - CosmoGirl "Written with deadpan wit.this is a 'Wonderful Life'-like tale." - New York Post Anticipate a well deserved cult following." - VOYA (starred review) * "Readers with a taste for black humor and satire will feast on Hurley's crisp, wise dialogue. *"Tim Burton and Edgar Allan Poe devotees will die for this fantastic, phantasmal read." -School Library Journal (starred review) Goofy, ghastly, intelligent, electrifying." -Kirkus (starred review) * " beats out witty teen-speak like a punk-band drummer, keeping the narrative fast-paced and fun yet thought-provokingly heartwarming. ![]() * Polished dark-and-deadpan humor, it's a natural fit with Gen Y, too." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) In this satirical, yet heartfelt novel, Hurley explores the invisibility we all feel at some times and the lengths we'll go to be seen. If you thought high school was a matter of life or death, wait till you see just how true that is. But being dead doesn't stop Charlotte from wanting to be popular it just makes her more creative about achieving her goal. ![]() And all because she choked on a gummy bear. Charlotte Usher feels practically invisible at school, and then one day she really is invisible. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1963, King’s grassroots organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, teamed up with local civil rights groups in nearby Birmingham to initiate a protest campaign against one of the South’s most notoriously segregated cities. He became a national celebrity following his public role during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. He married Coretta Scott, whom he met in Boston, they started a family, and he began his ministry in Montgomery, Alabama. ![]() King grew up in Georgia, the son of a well-known pastor, graduated from Morehouse College as a teenager and then studied theology in Pennsylvania before receiving a doctorate from Boston University. ( 1929-1968) was a Baptist minister and world-famous civil rights activist. INTRODUCTION King in the Birmingham city jail (University of Memphis Libraries) ![]() I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice ![]() ![]() Pictures after the release of The Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001. ![]() The Harry Potter film sequence was doing major business for Warner Bros. In the early 2000s, Pullman’s compelling books were irresistible to readers and movie studios. In all, it’s a magical tale where Lyra encounters witches, talking armored bears, and, naturally, parallel worlds, alongside adventure and gut-wrenching emotion. Her world is held in an iron grip by the far-reaching church, the Magisterium, which punishes heresy and is determined to stop whatever Lyra’s semi-estranged father, Lord Asriel, is planning as it could not only bring down the church but challenge the authority of creation itself. ![]() Lyra leaves the sleeping spires of Oxford on a dangerous quest to uncover why children are going missing, taking with her an alethiometer, which she can inexplicably read to discern the truth and divine the future. ![]() Lyra is the series’ main protagonist, along with her daemon Pantalaimon (who has not yet settled on an animal form due to their age). The skies are full of airships, and every human is accompanied by a daemon - an anthropomorphic animal symbiotically linked to a person and most commonly understood to be their soul and conscience. The first book of His Dark Materials builds Lyra’s world, one familiar but different to ours. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when she stumbles upon the knowledge that the Verdeau patriarch is the one responsible for the ruin of her own family, Lena vows to get revenge-a poison-filled quest that leads her further into this hedonistic world than she ever bargained for, forcing her to decide how much-and who-she's willing to sacrifice for payback. and trying not to fall for Jonathan’s alluring sister, Audrey. By night, Lena discovers the more sinister side of the family, as she works overtime at their lavish parties, helping to hide their self-destructive tendencies. So when she is offered a position, against all odds, working for one of Boston’s most elite families, the illustrious and secretive Verdeaus, she knows she must accept it-no matter how bizarre the interview or how vague the job description.īy day, she is assistant to the family doctor and his charge, Jonathan, the sickly, poetic, drunken heir to the family empire, who is as difficult as his illness is mysterious. ![]() ![]() Med school dropout Lena is desperate for a job, any job, to help her parents, who are approaching bankruptcy after her father was injured and laid off nearly simultaneously. and all the secrets, lies, and darkness that opulence can hide. From debut author Kit Mayquist, a propulsive and atmospheric modern Gothic with all the splendor of The Great Gatsby. ![]() |