![]() ![]() This all changed in the 1960s and 1970s, when a deeper conceptual understanding of black holes developed just as new observations revealed the existence of quasars and X-ray binary star systems, whose mysterious properties could be explained by the presence of black holes. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality-a viewpoint many shared. Dive into a mind-bending exploration of the physics of black holesīlack holes, predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. ![]()
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![]() I rarely rate books as one star, but I couldn’t give this book a higher rating. I’m sad to say that I could barely finish this book. When Sophie visits her grandmother, she finally meets a bad boy, but it doesn’t go as she planned. Sophie wants to shed her good girl image and be more like her favorite romance novel character. ![]() In Little Miss Red, Sophie is a “good girl” with a boyfriend everyone in her family loves, except her. Here is my countdown of Robin Palmer’s modern fairy tales from least favorite to favorite: Once I finally read through these books, I definitely had mixed feelings on a few. The covers were cute and I was super into fairy tale retellings. I remember when I first saw these books in the stores, I was super excited. ![]() Today, I’ll be counting down four of her fairy tale inspired books. Robin Palmer has written several fairy tale inspired books as well as the Lucy B. ![]() ![]() It was great to get a retelling of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, but told from Beast’s perspective. All you have to do is have an open mind to this version of Beauty and the Beast. Valentino’s retelling of the classic Beauty and the Beast was honestly fantastic! She puts a fun twist on the classic fairy tail. So it was great to finally see Beast’s side and see how he became the Beast. When it comes to Belle and Beast all we ever stick to and see is Belle’s side of the story. This was such a great book! I love that we got to see into Beast’s life before he met Belle. ![]() Like what was is that transformed the Prince into a beast? What in the Prince’s past made him so awful? What was his life like before Belle? ![]() Valentino answers the questions we have all been wondering. This time it is the Beast’s turn to be in the spotlight. Beauty and the Beast has been told over and over again, but not this time. ![]() ![]() ![]() The upper class overwhelmingly supported the Constitution many working class colonists were more dubious. Multiple conflicting interests had a say, from creditors and debtors to city dwellers and backwoodsmen. Just as importantly, the Constitution was hardly the product of philosophical reflections by brilliant, disinterested statesmen, but rather ordinary interest group politics. And, even after the convention succeeded, the Constitution it produced almost failed to be ratified. Simply put, the Constitutional Convention almost didn't happen, and once it happened, it almost failed. & The Framers' Coup is more than a compendium of great stories, however, and the powerful arguments that feature throughout will reshape our understanding of the nation's founding. & Not only does Klarman capture the knife's-edge atmosphere of the convention, he populates his narrative with riveting and colorful stories. "Based on prodigious research and told largely through the voices of the participants, Michael Klarman's The Framers' Coup narrates how the Framers' clashing interests shaped the Constitution-and American history itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Audiobook publishers and voice actors may disagree, of course. Digital narration, meanwhile, makes it more economically feasible for small publishing houses and independent writers to enter the audiobook market, Apple says. ![]() The current model involves authors or, more often, voice actors recording books-a process that can take weeks and cost publishers thousands of dollars. ![]() "Digitally narrated titles are a valuable complement to professionally narrated audiobooks, and will help bring audio to as many books and as many people as possible," Apple says. Apple is also experimenting with nonfiction and self-development, with plans for wider availability in the future. Madison, for example, is a soprano narrating Loving From Afar by romance writer Mona Ingram, while baritone Jackson reads Alex Lyttle's fiction title From Ant to Eagle. ![]() "Apple Books digital narration brings together advanced speech synthesis technology with important work by teams of linguists, quality control specialists, and audio engineers to produce high-quality audiobooks from an ebook file," Apple says on its authors page.Īs The Guardian notes, you can find these titles on Apple Books by searching for "AI narration." The publisher description will say: "This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator."ĭigital voices are created and optimized for different genres. ![]() ![]() ![]() We do know that Enoch was the one God selected to act as an intermediary to the fallen angels, instructing him to tell them what their punishment would be for their transgressions. (It's also worth noting that Les Enluminures says Noah is the great-grandson of Enoch.)Įnoch, the story says, tried to speak on behalf of the angels and their giant children - but sadly, a lot of the texts are missing. The angels started teaching their giant offspring evil ways, and God not only imprisoned them, but subjected them to judgment and sent the flood to hit the reset button on his creations. ![]() Those children were the sons and daughters of 200 angels, and they were a race of 450-foot-tall giants. (The story also shows up in Genesis, but in less detail.) Before the Great Flood, angels and humans met and mingled pretty commonly, and the inevitable happened: children. ![]() According to the Gnostic Society Library, the Book of Enoch tells the tale of angels who are destroyed by lust. ![]() ![]() Faced with losing everything she loves, she needs the help of her farrier boyfriend, Peter, to win in Kentucky, one of the most challenging riding competitions there is. To make matters worse, Storm is behaving like the wild horse he once was. But that dream is about to turn into a nightmare.Īfter her father is arrested for a crime Casey is convinced he didn't commit, she finds herself the victim of a vicious blackmailer. When Casey Blue's victory at the Badminton Horse Trials earns her and Storm an invitation to the prestigious Kentucky Three Day Event, it is a dream come true. Faced with losing everything she loves, she needs the help. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Narrator Sean Pratt’s older voice seems an odd match for a teenager until we hear Oz’s protective nature and old-soul maturity in action. “Narrator Marguerite Gavin contrasts Emily’s fearless exterior with her fear of the dark and frustration over family secrets. But sometimes the right person is the one you least expect, and the road you fear the most is the one that leads you home. What he doesn't count on is that Emily just might turn that dream upside down. ![]() So when her father asks him to keep her safe from a rival club with a score to settle, Oz knows it's his shot at his dream. And while Emilythe gorgeous and sheltered daughter of the club's most respected memberis in town, he's gonna prove it to her. Oz wants one thing: to join the Reign of Terror. ![]() Not the club, not her secret-keeping father and not Oz, a guy with suck-me-in blue eyes who can help her understand them both. But when a reluctant visit turns into an extended summer vacation among relatives she never knew she had, one thing becomes clear: nothing is what it seems. Sure, she's curious about her biological fatherthe one who chose life in a motorcycle club, the Reign of Terror, over being a parentbut that doesn't mean she wants to be a part of his world. Seventeen-year-old Emily likes her life the way it is: doting parents, good friends, good school in a safe neighborhood. An unforgettable new series from acclaimed author Katie McGarry about taking risks, opening your heart and ending up in a place you never imagined possible ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sean Phillips, joined by his son Jacob Phillips on colors, brings a Great Depression era New York to life, as its denizens struggle to keep their heads down and just get by. RELATED: Bliss #1 Is a Surreal and Timely Urban Fantasy Adventure Plus, with literal Nazis as the antagonists, Brubaker has provided a pitch-perfect method for Max to pick himself up and face off against the ultimate foe - to find his own modicum of redemption, however he can. Readers see Max hitting his rock bottom, but he is determined as all hell not to stay there. While Brubaker is known to take the gloves off and deliver some truly heavy-handed, gritty noir, Pulp is not unrelentingly dark and grim. As his age begins to catch up with him and the insidious influence of the Third Reich begins to spread from Europe to the United States, Max tries to find the courage to channel his own six-shooting legacy and prepare to go out on his own terms.ĭrawing from his own recent brush with death, Brubaker makes Max Winter one of his most personal protagonists yet. ![]() Winters draws from his own experiences as a gunslinger in the Wild West, decades ago. Max Winter is an old writer in 1930s New York City who crafts western stories for pulp magazines to help make ends meet. ![]() ![]() In the film, the device looks uncannily similar to an iPad. An excerpt reads: "Ender doodled on his desk, drawing contour maps of mountainous islands and then telling his desk to display them in three dimensions in every angle."Įnder's interactive "desk" even detaches, and he's able to play a unique game on it as he holds the device in his lap. The "Ender's Game" battle school "desks" are powerful, and portable, computing systems. "Everybody knows that the system automatically puts on the name of the sender," one student says. " was telling his desk to keep sending a message… The message was to everyone, and it was short and to the point." That's essentially Card's description of instant messaging several years before it existed. Like the Internet, the systems described in "Ender's Game" are connected to a web of data and instant communications capabilities. "The boys who had been so trained by the computer that even when they played against each other they each tried to emulate the computer," the book reads. He and his fellow students study remote warfare through the use of high-level simulators that function like today's most immersive video games. Indeed, sophisticated computers are at the center of ace student Ender Wiggins's world. "It predicted the Internet 28 years ago." "It was a spectacular act of imagination," Ford says. "Ender's Game" author Orson Scott Card saw into the future with almost eerie accuracy. ![]() |