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The Chicago Boys Box Set
Karen Deen - 2020
THE CHICAGO BOYS BOX SET includes:Gorgeous GynoPrivate PilotNaughty NeuroLovable Lawyer
A Life in the Day
Hunter Davies - 2017
The Co-op’s Got Bananas!
left our protagonist at the cusp of working for one of the world’s greatest newspapers –
The Sunday Times
. In this much-anticipated sequel, Hunter now looks back across five decades of successful writing to reflect on his colourful memories of the living in London during the height of the Swinging Sixties, becoming editor of Britain’s first colour weekend supplement The Sunday Times magazine; where he befriended the Beatles; and reporting on (and partying with) some of the biggest names in television, film and theatre of the day. As time moved on into the 1970s, '80s and '90s, Hunter encountered the likes of Sir Michael Caine, George Best, Melvyn Bragg, Joan Bakewell, Sir Sean Connery, Cilla Black, Paul Gascoigne, and Wayne Rooney to name a few. Hunter brings the story full circle to reflect on his years spent with the love of his life – the bestselling writer Margaret Forster, who sadly passed away in February 2016. This will not only be a colourful and enjoyable memoir of what it was like to be at the epicentre of Britain’s artistic heart, but also an emotional, heart-felt tribute to family, friends and colleagues. For those captivated by
The Co-op’s Got Bananas!,
this sequel is a must read.
Red Velvet
Linnea May
Too rough, too demanding, too proficient.But she doesn't know that.So why should I stay away?Lila doesn’t want another nice guy. She’s tired of being the good girl. She wants something new - someone to push her boundaries. She wants me.Naive and curious, she looks at me with that voiceless yearning in her eyes, piercing and pulling until I can no longer resist.Oh, little girl, be careful what you wish for. You will submit to me, you will bend to my will and cry beautiful tears for me. My belt will bite your skin until it blossoms in all shades of red, my restraints will cut into your wrists just like my command will carve into your soul. But you’re not ready for it, are you? Your past keeps reaching out to you, still holding a firm grip on the girl who is trying to break free. You need a resolve - and you need it soon. Before I break every last part of you.
The Six
Mark Alpert - 2015
Virtual reality games are Adam's only escape from his wheelchair. In his alternate world, he can defeat anyone. Running, jumping, scoring touchdowns: Adam is always the hero.Then an artificial intelligence program, Sigma, hacks into Adam's game. Created by Adam's computer-genius father, Sigma has gone rogue, threatening Adam's life-and world domination. Their one chance to stop Sigma is using technology Adam's dad developed to digitally preserve the mind of his dying son.Along with a select group of other terminally ill teens, Adam becomes one of the Six who have forfeited their bodies to inhabit weaponized robots. But with time running short, the Six must learn to manipulate their new mechanical forms and work together to train for epic combat...before Sigma destroys humanity.
Werebears of New Hampshire Box Set
Kim Fox - 2015
The hot, werebear, shifter series with over 200 five star reviews! Includes: Part 1: Bearly Breathing (The Beginning) Part 2: Bearly In Control (Edwin and Grace) Part 3: Bearly Interested (Sidney and Angie) Part 4: Bearly In Time (Connor and Rebecca) Full of comedy, action, suspense and lots of hot sex! Part 1: Bearly Breathing BBW, Rebecca Sanderson, has dragged her two friends on a weekend kayaking excursion through the New Hampshire mountains to help her get over her ex-fiancée. But the three girls will find more than just kayaking when they meet their three sexy, werebear guides. Werebear, Connor Jacoby, is trying really hard to make his new kayaking business succeed. But it's hard when one of your employees phases into a bear in front of your customers and the other charges for autographs because he thinks he's famous since he once played two games in the NFL before getting kicked out. Connor already has his hands full and it's about to get worse when his two incompetent employees bond to the two hot girls they are paired with. But there's nothing he can say because his bear bonds with the beautiful Rebecca. The three 'couples' get separated in a freak flash flood and they must survive the wilderness, but harder than that, they must survive each other for the night. Adult only BBW bear shifter romance. Part 2: Bearly In Control (Edwin and Grace) Bear shifter, Edwin, was abandoned by his parents as a child and has lived most of his life in his bear form, roaming around the mountains of New Hampshire. He's never been good with people and lacks even the most basic social skills to function in society. He heads to New York City to meet the family of the rich, socialite woman that he bonded with and this feral werebear really has his work cut out for him. Wealthy New Yorker, Grace Briggs, is in for a wild week. Her Senator father is announcing his run for the Presidency and her new werebear boyfriend, the one who shifts into a brown bear at the most inappropriate times, is staying in their home. She will have a difficult decision to make. Will she go with her father's choice of a boyfriend: the rich, good looking, Devon, or will she follow her heart and go with the rugged bear shifter? In Bearly Breathing we found out that these two opposites can attract. But will they be able to stay together when things get tough? Part 3: Bearly Interested (Sidney and Angie) Quantum Electrochemist and all round genius, Angie Hawkins, is about to complete a study that will make her career and land her a dream job in Switzerland. She has four days to finish the tricky experiment and everything is going on schedule until an unwelcome interruption comes barging back into her life: a polar bear shifter named Sidney. Ex NFL player, Sidney Watts, hasn't heard from the sexy redhead that he bonded with three weeks ago. So what's a bear shifter to do when his phone messages aren't returned? Why go to New York City and find her! But when Sidney arrives in the Big Apple he will have his work cut out for him because Angie only wants to focus on her career and won't give him the time of day. Luckily, Sidney is a slow learner and is oblivious to her not-too-subtle hints. Part 4: Bearly In Time (Connor and Rebecca) BBW, Rebecca Sanderson, is heartbroken. The hot bear shifter that she fell for over a magical weekend away in the mountains is a fraud. A player. A cheater.
Her Perfect Valentine Birthday Surprise
Ana E. Ross - 2011
When Sheldon Tanner, the CEO of the company calls her to his office, she has no idea he is the ‘unnamed’ man with whom she had a one-night stand, six years ago. Will Sheldon remember Elizabeth? And if he does, will sparks fly again and ignite their path to a happily ever after?
Destination: Void
Frank Herbert - 1966
An emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: to create an artificial consciousness in the Earthling's primary computer, which could guide them to their destination . . . or could destroy the human race. Frank Herbert's classic novel that begins the epic Pandora Sequence (written with Bill Ransom), which also includes The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, and The Ascension Factor.
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do
Erik J. Larson - 2021
What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren't really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don't even know where that path might be.A tech entrepreneur and pioneering research scientist working at the forefront of natural language processing, Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to show how far we are from superintelligence, and what it would take to get there. Ever since Alan Turing, AI enthusiasts have equated artificial intelligence with human intelligence. This is a profound mistake. AI works on inductive reasoning, crunching data sets to predict outcomes. But humans don't correlate data sets: we make conjectures informed by context and experience. Human intelligence is a web of best guesses, given what we know about the world. We haven't a clue how to program this kind of intuitive reasoning, known as abduction. Yet it is the heart of common sense. That's why Alexa can't understand what you are asking, and why AI can only take us so far.Larson argues that AI hype is both bad science and bad for science. A culture of invention thrives on exploring unknowns, not overselling existing methods. Inductive AI will continue to improve at narrow tasks, but if we want to make real progress, we will need to start by more fully appreciating the only true intelligence we know--our own.
She Survived: Anne
M. William Phelps - 2018
. . By the time Anne Bridges saw the gun in Jimmy Williams’s hand, it was already too late. The bad things she had heard about him—how he had drugged a woman and held her hostage—Anne now realized were true. Only now it was her turn. What began as a well-intentioned attempt to reconnect with an old friend became, for Anne, a struggle to survive. In her own words Anne shares a chilling minute-by-minute account of her ordeal—the shotgun blast that nearly ended her life, her desperate struggle to escape, and the courage that sustained her on her long road to recovery—as part of a compelling narrative by award-winning, New York Times bestselling author M. William Phelps. She is telling her story in hopes that other women will not have to go through what she endured at the hands of a violent attacker.
Ingrid Bergman
Grace May Carter - 2016
In between, there were four children (including actress Isabella Rossellini), three husbands, and passionate affairs with war photographer Robert Capa, Wizard of Oz director Victor Fleming, and Spellbound co-star Gregory Peck. Over her forty-seven-year career, Ingrid Bergman performed in fifty-five movies - in five languages and seven countries - and eleven stage productions, picking up three Oscars along the way. In the words of one biographer, she was "arguably the most international star in the history of entertainment." And, without a doubt, one of the most misunderstood.
City Under the Stars
Gardner Dozois - 2020
Over two decades later, the two realized there was more to the story, and began the work of expanding it. Now, after Gardner Dozois' tragic passing, the story can be told in full.God was in his Heaven—which was fifteen miles away, due east.Far in Earth's future, in a post-utopian hell-hole, Hanson works ten solid back-breaking hours a day, shoveling endless mountains of coal, within sight of the iridescent wall that separates what’s left of humanity from their gods.One day, after a tragedy of his own making, Hanson leaves the city, not knowing what he will do, or how he will survive in the wilderness without work. He finds himself drawn to the wall, to the elusive promise of God. And when the impossible happens, he steps through, into the city beyond.The impossible was only the beginning.
The Fear Index
Robert Harris - 2011
His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions.But then in the early hours of the morning, while he lies asleep with his wife, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of their lakeside house. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him.His quest forces him to confront the deepest questions of what it is to be human. By the time night falls over Geneva, the financial markets will be in turmoil and Hoffmann's world - and ours - transformed forever.
Mr Cavell's Diamond
Kathleen McGurl - 2014
He is in possession of a large diamond, given to him in India, which he vows he will give to the woman he loves – when he finds her, that is. Jemima Brown, sixteen, good-hearted and hard-working, comes to work for him as a general maidservant. When Mr Cavell stands up for her against the unwanted attentions of some tradesmen working in his house, she sees at once that here is a man of high morals and integrity. But it is Caroline Simpson, daughter of Henry’s house-painter, who catches his eye. She may be socially his inferior, but she is good-looking, flirtatious and knows how to use her charms. She manipulates Henry into marrying her, and only the loyal Jemima knows he’s been tricked. How can Jemima fight her growing feelings for her master, maintain her morals and stay in Mr Cavell’s employment, despite her mistress’s increasingly erratic behaviour?
Her Wounded Cowboy: A Clean & Wholesome Cowboy Romance (Unforgettable Cowboys Book 3)
Danae Little - 2019
Returning to her family’s failing ranch crashes a harsh reality upon her. With the responsibility that her parents can no longer shoulder, she has to take the first position offered to her…helping the boy who broke her heart in high school.Ryder lost more than his memory during a bull riding accident. Losing his ability to walk and the headaches that come with his head injury are nothing compared to his broken heart. His emotional instability distances him from his family, including, Maci, his daughter he can’t remember.Maci dreams of having a stable family, a mom who won’t run out on her, and her dad home. Will she be able to bring Savannah and her dad together in order to make her dream come true?
Book Three of Unforgettable Cowboys, a clean and wholesome romance series with a touch of suspense.
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A Doctor's Promise: A Sweet Medical Romance (Norfolk Coastal Medical Book 1)
Katie Evergreen - 2020
Getting a job as a psychotherapist on a clinical trial, miles away from home, Edie finds herself stuck with a surgeon who has a reputation for being a brute. Can she ignore his behaviour and keep her new job? And can she keep the secret that she brought with her from home?Doctor Finlay Cooper is a renowned heart surgeon at Norfolk Coastal General, a secretive man who has earned his reputation as both the best in his field and a bully in the operating theatre. But Finn has a reason he keeps people at arm’s length, and he’s not ready to tell—until Edie walks into the hospital and he discovers he has no choice.A woman with a secret she can’t risk sharing and a job she can’t afford to lose. A man with a past to forget and a new reason to forget it. Can they work together to not only save the patients on their clinical trial, but each other too?A sweet, clean Contemporary Medical Romance. The first in the Norfolk Coastal Medical Series is destined to sweep you off your feet.