![]() Bird’s father does not speak much of Margaret, other than proclaiming she held unpatriotic ideas. ![]() His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left the family when he was nine years old. We meet twelve-year-old Bird who lives with his father at a university. And despite everything that happens and is discussed, that is the key. Still, at the heart of the story is the relationship between mother and son. ![]() Devastating loss of jobs, protests turned violent and overall unease and a fearful mentality approach to day-to-day life. While there’s no impact from a pandemic in this version of the U.S., there’s economic and political turmoil. While her other novels are set in a present day format, Our Missing Hearts is technically dystopian fiction, but yet, the world doesn’t feel so dissimilar to our current reality. It’s so readable and everlasting-her words truly stay with you for a long time. ![]() Her stories have this precise quality to draw you in with sophisticated writing and vivid details. I quite enjoyed Celeste Ng’s previous novel, Little Fires Everywhere, and the Hulu series as well. This novel was one of my most-anticipated of the year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When you increase a load parameter, keep system resources unchanged, how is performance affected?.Describing load: requests per second, read/write radio, active users, cache hit rate,…. ![]() Scalability describes a system’s ability to cope with increased load.Allow quick recovery rollback strategy.Automate testing: unit test, integration test, end-to-end test.Decouple the places where people make the most mistake.Enforce good design, good practice and training.Human errors: design error, configuration error,….There’s no quick solution other than thorough testing, measuring, monitoring, analyzing.Software faults: bug, out of shared resources, unresponsive service, cascading failure,….As long as we can restore a backup onto a new machine quickly, the downtime is not fatal.Add redundancy to individual hardware components to reduce the failure rate. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Out of the Wild Night, Balliett is trying something completely new– a ghost story, told by a ghost, that takes place on Nantucket, where a greedy real estate investor is buying up historic houses and gutting them to replace the original interiors with modern, updated ones, much to the consternation of some local children and, apparently, some very unhappy ghosts. Surely she couldn’t be speaking of a book by Blue Balliett? I picked this one up when a colleague told me she was unable to get more than 20 pages in. ![]() Since her first book, Chasing Vermeer, was published, a number of other children’s books that require the characters to solve puzzles and codes have come out, but hers remained an outstanding and unique voice, although her narratives have gotten more difficult to navigate, and some books have been better than others. Typically she writes what I would describe as puzzle-box mysteries– they have many complex and seemingly unrelated pieces that have to be pulled into place at the right time by their child protagonists to solve a crime that involves a literary or artistic work of some kind. ![]() Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobookīlue Balliett is a gifted writer with a lyrical voice and quirky tone to her books. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book most succeeds in its rich historical context, underscoring Rickey's outsize influence in a new vanguard of "great Black talents" that shook up the hallowed white halls of baseball. A worthy addition to the sports collection, like almost any book by this author." - Booklist "A solid and comprehensive take on the life and career of Rickey Henderson. Bryant's book shows how he got there, and the hits he had to take along the way." - San Francisco Chronicle " lays out the player's coming-of-age in the cauldron of racism, athletic talent, and Black self-expression that was 1960s Oakland Henderson's once-in-a-generation gifts and his role on the nine teams-notably the Oakland A's and the New York Yankees-for whom he played over his 25-year career. Henderson ultimately had the last laugh: Today he's seen as an all-time great. Bryant does some of his best work along the fault line of race and culture, an area he covers well in most of his writing. "Seldom does a sports biography - especially a page-turner - so comprehensively explain the forces that made an icon the way they are." - Sports Illustrated "Bryant's vivid and extensive account, written with access to Henderson and his wife, Pamela, shines a light on this unique and charismatic legend." - Washington Post "Thanks to Howard Bryant's new biography, we can peel back a few of those inscrutable layers and find the man beneath the swagger. ![]() ![]() ![]() Share and post topics and start conversations with Jeffrey and people like you. Get first access to Jeffrey’s videos, behind the scenes clips, and more. See exclusive images from backstage, day-to-day life, and more. Listen to never-heard-before talks and tips to help you sleep or support you throughout the day. Receive direct phone calls or text messages with a loving phrase or self-esteem tip of the day.Ĭonnect with Jeffrey and get on-the-spot inspiration.Ĭhat directly with Jeffrey or other fans. Everything you need to feel good about being you is right here, so download now! Also, meet other people like you and join the family through hanging out in the chat-room or attending special events. ![]() ![]() Carry constant reminders of your worth and the happiness you deserve. Subscribers receive a personal premium content such as phone calls, text messages and opportunities to connect live from all over the world. The Internet can be filled with hate, but spending time with Jeffrey makes you feel better. This app is the ultimate digital destination for you to receive happy tips and loving reminders from digital star Jeffrey Marsh. ![]() ![]() Training to be a warrior-and desperately in love with her best friend, Winter’s future king-she would do anything to help Winter rise to power again. Orphaned as an infant during Winter’s defeat, Meira has lived her whole life as a refugee. Now the Winterians’ only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape, and who have been waiting for the opportunity to steal back Winter’s magic and rebuild the kingdom ever since. Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic or a monarch. ![]() ![]() A striking fantasy tale of dark magic, dangerous politics, and discovering your true self-perfect for fans of Game of Thrones, An Ember in the Ashes and A Court of Thorns and Roses. ![]() ![]() Eh bien je suis heureuse de vous confirmer que mes petits chouchous ne m’ont nullement déçue. ![]() Néanmoins, je dois tout de même vous avouer que j’avais beaucoup d’attentes les concernant. Depuis que je les avais rencontré précédemment, je trépignais d’impatience de faire plus ample connaissance avec eux. Mais revenons à nos héros, Julian & Parker. Cependant, je préfère vous prévenir, une fois que vous aurez fait connaissance avec les autres couples présents ici vous risquez de vouloir découvrir leur histoire… Ma nuit fût courte et très agitée en émotions mais cela en valait largement la peine !Īvant d’aller plus loin bien que cela soit une suite, l’histoire étant axée sur un autre couple peut être indépendant des autres. À peine l’ai-je reçue dans ma liseuse que je l’ai commencée le soir même. ![]() ![]() Après trois opus des plus attrayants, il me tardait de savoir ce que Lucy Lennox allait me réserver dans cette suite. ![]() ![]() ![]() Practical guidelines on how thoughts can influence the human psychological well-being and improve physical and even mental abilities are laid out in the book of psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. The theory of thoughts’ influence can be transferred into its active phase by the integration of theoretical knowledge and practical action together to enforce and bring into reality the individual’s wishes and expectations. Scholarly findings on the self-improvement potential of the human brain can now be used in everyday life, by ordinary people. Today, the discovery of the fact that thoughts can change the individual’s well-being and psychological feelings is the most important achievement in the field of neuroscience over the past four centuries. There was a consensus that the human brain can only deteriorate with age, but not improve. Just a few decades ago, the scientific community considered that the brain is fixed and programmed by nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, no doubt, he never would have confessed at all if he hadn't been trapped in a catch-22: he had thrived so noticably during the war that when it ended, he was quickly arrested as a Nazi collaborator. ![]() His canvases were so nearly authentic that they would almost certainly be prized among the catalogue of Vermeers if he had not confessed. During van Meegeren's heyday as a forger of Vermeers, he earned 50 million dollars, the acclamation of the world's press, and the satisfaction of swindling the Nazis. Frank Wynne's remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art world-and along the way, it reveals the collusion and ego that, even today, allow art forgery to thrive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, as Wilfred dumps her suitcase into the well with Arlette, he notices that her body has become infested with rats. Wilfred and Henry then dump the body in a dry well behind the barn. After taking Arlette to bed, Wilfred brutally slashes her throat with a butcher knife. Arlette proceeds to make crude remarks about Henry's girlfriend, Shannon Cotterie, which angers the boy enough to commit to Wilfred's plot. Wilfred resorts to manipulating his teenage son, Henry, into helping him murder Arlette.Īs part of their plot, Wilfred and a reluctant Henry get Arlette drunk. ![]() If she does so, Wilfred's property will no longer be farmable and he'll be forced to sell as well. ![]() She seeks to sell her land to a livestock company for use as a pig farm and slaughterhouse. Wilfred scorns the thought of living in a city, but Arlette is discontented with farm life and wants to move to Omaha. His wife, Arlette, owns an adjoining 100 acres willed to her by her father. In 1922, Wilfred James, a farmer in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, owns 80 acres of farmland that have been in his family for generations. 1922 is a novella by American writer Stephen King, published in his collection Full Dark, No Stars (2010). ![]() |