![]() ![]() When another body is found, Mariana’s obsession with proving Fosca’s guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But why would the professor target one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, and her journey to the underworld? And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. ![]() Title/Author: The Maidens by Alex MichaelidesĮdward Fosca is a murderer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Praise for her writing should not go unsung. Esther’s rebellion against prescribed societal norms for women, refusing marriage, and having ambitions in her career as a writer, has earned Plath praise as a feminist and subsequently The Bell Jar as a “feminist document.” Her writing throughout the novel does not shy away from the sordid details of tough subjects such as suicide, sexual assault, and severe treatments for mental illness, such as shock treatments. The characterization of Esther is often seen as revolutionary for the time. ![]() Esther’s experiences, both at the internship and throughout the novel as she struggles with manic depressive disorder, closely parallel those of Plath’s own life. Originally published in 1963 under a pseudonym, Victoria Lucas, Plath’s novel has taken its place among the ranks of great literature.Ĭonsidered autobiographical by most, The Bell Jar follows Esther Greenwood as she descends into a bout of mental illness after an internship in New York. Perhaps Plath’s most famous piece of work, and only novel, is The Bell Jar. Her memory lies in this fact, along with the unfortunate circumstances of her life and, ultimately, her death. Sylvia Plath is often lauded as one of the great American poets. ![]() ![]() Sam Beckett and Admiral Al Calavicci embark on an experiment in time travel called Project Quantum Leap and. ![]() "He viewed it as inappropriate, he personally felt it had gone too far and distanced himself from the situation. 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James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. ![]() Though James's work as a medievalist is still highly regarded, he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), and of Eton College (1918–36). Montague Rhodes James OM FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re likable women facing fears of coming out, making themselves vulnerable, and sorting out whether a shared future is possible when each partner has a robust and demanding life of her own. These aren’t aloof, spoiled, condescending superstars. 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Collecting DARK REIGN: FANTASTIC FOUR #1-5, FANTASTIC FOUR #570-588, FF #1-5 and material from DARK REIGN: THE CABAL #1. Grieving, the surviving members of the Fantastic Four dissolve the team – but from its ashes rises the Future Foundation! Guest-starring Spider-Man, Dr. But when Nathaniel Richards returns, Galactus rises and a new Annihilation Wave threatens to invade from the Negative Zone, tragedy suddenly strikes. ![]() Fantastic assembles a band of genius youngsters. Fantastic decides to solve everything! As the team contends with Norman Osborn's Dark Reign, an older Franklin arrives from the future with an ominous warning! And as the Fantastic Four fight the War of the Four Cities, Mr. Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman revamps and redefines Marvel's First Family in a sweeping and epic saga across time, space and reality! And it all begins when Mr. Fantastic Four By Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Vol 1 – November 2021, 800 pagesīy Sean Chen, Dale Eaglesham, Neil Edwards, Steve Epting, Nick Dragotta, Barry Kitson, Jonathan Hickman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather to a more efficient use of model parameters. ![]() Inception V3, the performance gains are not due to increased capacity but Since the Xception architecture has the same number of parameters as Larger image classification dataset comprising 350 million images and 17,000Ĭlasses. Inception V3 was designed for), and significantly outperforms Inception V3 on a Xception, slightly outperforms Inception V3 on the ImageNet dataset (which A year of developing Keras, using Keras, and getting feedback from thousands of users has taught us a lot. It has made tremendous progress since, both on the development front, and as a community. ![]() This observation leads us to propose a novel deep convolutional neural networkĪrchitecture inspired by Inception, where Inception modules have been replaced Keras was initially released a year ago, late March 2015. In this light, a depthwise separable convolution canīe understood as an Inception module with a maximally large number of towers. Networks as being an intermediate step in-between regular convolution and theĭepthwise separable convolution operation (a depthwise convolution followed byĪ pointwise convolution). Download a PDF of the paper titled Xception: Deep Learning with Depthwise Separable Convolutions, by Fran\cois Chollet Download PDF Abstract: We present an interpretation of Inception modules in convolutional neural ![]() ![]() ![]() Between fighting off a rampaging goat named King Arthur, a spider that just won't die, and a prima donna bunkmate named Victoria Radamoskovich, there's no time left for Chloe to learn cake decorating. ![]() She decides to make the best of it: she'll learn cake decorating and earn money when she gets home, frosting cupcakes at a local shop. An entertaining and lighthearted choice perfect for summer readers looking for breezy titles to take to the beach (or summer camp). There is no way eleven-year old Chloe is going into the sixth grade riding her old pink bicycle But before she can earn money for a new bike, she's shipped off to career camp. Well, they obviously never had to ride a baby bike to the first day of middle school. ![]() ![]() Someone once told me that money can't buy a girl happiness. Chloe McCorkle is willing to do anything in order to avoid having to ride her hot pink. Taryn Souders 4.3 4 Ratings 7.99 7.99 Publisher Description 2021 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Juvenile Mystery From award-winning author Taryn Souders comes a charming, southern middle grade mystery perfect for fans of Stranger Thingsand the Masterminds series. Join eleven year old Chloe McCorkle on her trip to summer Camp Minnehaha in this action-packed, laugh-out-loud book perfect for middle schoolers and kids ages 9 to 12. ![]() ![]() ![]() In later life he became very interested in spiritualism.Ĭonan Doyle died of a heart attack on 7 July 1930. Conan Doyle also twice ran unsuccessfully for parliament. These included a pamphlet justifying Britain's involvement in the Boer War, for which he was knighted and histories of the Boer War and World War One, in which his son, brother and two of his nephews were killed. In addition, Conan Doyle wrote a number of other novels, including 'The Lost World' and various non-fictional works. A public outcry later made him resurrect Holmes. Its success encouraged Conan Doyle to write more stories involving Holmes but, in 1893, Conan Doyle killed off Holmes, hoping to concentrate on more serious writing. Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in 'A Study of Scarlet', published in 'Beeton's Christmas Annual' in 1887. He then settled in Portsmouth on the English south coast and divided his time between medicine and writing. He worked as a surgeon on a whaling boat and also as a medical officer on a steamer travelling between Liverpool and West Africa. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. © Conan Doyle is most famous as the inventor of Sherlock Holmes, but he had a varied career as a writer, journalist and public figure.Īrthur Conan Doyle was born on in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was the first collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories Conan Doyle published in book form, following the popular. Portrait of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, c.1925 ![]() ![]() ![]() The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Readers who want to avoid flat, stereotyped characters should end here. Although the angels thwart Jake in a trite battle of forces, an open ending leaves room for his return. The second half finally brings tension when manipulative transfer student Jake Thorn begins recruiting classmates to the dark side. But how can she help succumbing to adolescence when the prom is only months away, she has a burning curiosity about human love and Xavier Woods, the hottest guy at her private high school, asks her out? The first half of this longwinded, repetitious novel with Catholic overtones explains the differences between angel and mortal lives and sets up Bethany’s obsessive, abstinent relationship with Xavier, which begs for Twilight comparisons. ![]() ![]() ![]() On her first trip to Earth, Bethany is only supposed to observe human behavior, not to befriend any of them. Since the Dark Forces started targeting the sleepy beachside town of Venus Cove, angel Bethany Church, 17 in mortal years, and her siblings Ivy and archangel Gabriel have been sent to restore order. ![]() |