Memories With Maya by Clyde DeSouza5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() *update* there’s now Hololens and MagicLeap. – Wearing a See-through visor ( Vuzix makes a Digital see-thru as well as announcing an optical see-thru version) a wearer can see another person in the room. – The “camera’s” position is located and any 3D object can be locked to it – in this case the Digital Surrogate of another person – augments the live camera view at correct depth. – An iphone camera “maps” the room (in the book – Dan and Krish use a kinect like device) There is a more serious – bordering on taboo- use of this tech for a person’s digital surrogate, but mentioning it would be a major spoiler for those interested in reading about Memories with Maya. To be able to see and interact with your partner right in your living-room: The future of LDRs (long distance relationships). Think, Oculus Rift and VR on steroids – This is “Augmented Intimacy”. Augmented Intimacy via Digital Surrogates: ![]()
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City clifford simak5/22/2023 ![]() The scant knowledge that has survived is kept in monastery-like "universities" where Tom Cushing learns of the legendary "Place of Going to the Stars." On an amazing trek across what was once America, Tom and a band of misfits seek the source of the myth, only to discover an astonishing revelation at the end of their journey. But now they're threatened by the reawakened remnants of a warlike race called "Man." A Heritage of Stars: More than a thousand years have passed since humankind intentionally destroyed its treacherous technology. With the aid of Jenkins, an ageless service robot, the dogs live in harmony and peace. ![]() Granted the power of speech centuries earlier, the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human history. This volume from an icon of the Golden Age of science fiction includes: City: In this International Fantasy Award–winning novel, millennia have passed since humankind abandoned Earth, leaving their most loyal animal companions alone. ![]() Two classic novels and a short story collection from the legendary Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author in one volume. ![]() You know me well by nina lacour5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Agent: (for LaCour) Sara Crowe, Harvey Klinger (for Levithan) Bill Clegg, Clegg Agency. There are a lot of emotional switchbacks packed into a single week, but the authors, writing in alternating chapters, incisively explore the excitement and costs of change, and the importance of friends in figuring out what to keep and what to jettison. Written in alternating points of view by LaCour and Levithan, You Know Me Well is a heart-aching story of first (gay) loves, and all the messy, glorious feelings that come along with them. When Katie bumps into Mark, they become a team as Mark imagines life without Ryan, Katie imagines it with Violet, and the future looms. We Are Okay YoungAdultebookl Contemporaryebookl 3 54 19 7. ![]() Mark is at a gay bar competing in an underwear contest he wins, but the victory emboldens Ryan, the friend Mark wishes were more, to dance with an attractive guy. You Know Me Well - Nina LaCour.epub 1 11 2 5.6K The eBook Library Books by Nina LaCour NinaLaCour ebookl 1. It’s the start of Pride Week, and Katie feels like she has grown apart from her friends, and that meeting the girl she’s had a crush on forever is more than she can handle. Just because you live near San Francisco and there are other gay kids at school doesn’t mean that life is simple as LaCour ( Everything Leads to You) and Levithan ( Two Boys Kissing) know, teenage life is never simple. 587 views 6 years ago David Levithan and Nina LaCour talk about the writing process and inspiration behind their new book 'You Know Me Well' For more go to We. ![]() Gotouge koyoharu5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Later that year, he created a 46 page oneshot titled Rokkotsu-san which was published in Weekly Shonen Jump 2014 issue 39. ![]() The next year in 2014, Gotouge published his debut works in the Jump Next 2014 Vol.2 with a 45 page oneshot manga titled Monju Shirou Kyoudai. Kagarigari is a one shot vampire-slaying manga consisting of 45 pages that was released in April 2013. Gotouge participated in the 70th Jump Treasure Newcomer Manga Awards in 2013 at the age of 24, with the work Kagarigari. Not much is known about the author, besides that fact Gotouge uses a self portrait of a crocodile wearing glasses to identify with the audience and prefers to keep his himself private and a mystery. The popularity of the series has grown exponentially especially after the animation adaptation made its debut on April 6, 2019. Increasing in popularity, the manga was first serialized in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in February 2016. ![]() Koyoharu Gotouge (吾峠呼世晴), born May 5, 1989, is the author of the Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer) original manga series. ![]() The Horde by Marie Favereau5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles. ![]() It left behind a profound legacy in Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, palpable to this day.įavereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. For three hundred years, the Horde was no less a force in global development than Rome had been. In the first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau shows that the accomplishments of the Mongols extended far beyond war. The Mongols are widely known for one thing: conquest. An epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them-not just conquerors but also city builders, diplomats, and supple economic thinkers who constructed one of the most influential empires in history. ![]() Neverseen by shannon messenger5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() “Besides, this isn’t a fashion contest.” “And if it was, I’d totally win. “But why do we only have boy stuff?” “Because I’m a boy,” Fitz reminded her. ![]() “At least I get to wear my shoes,” she said, hitching up her pants to reveal purple flats with diamond-studded toes. She wore a sweatshirt three sizes too big and faded, baggy jeans. Only one of her legs reappeared, and she had to hop up and down to get the other to show up. Biana was a Vanisher, like her mother, though she was still getting used to the ability. “What is with these clothes?” Biana interrupted, appearing out of thin air next to Keefe. But she’d broken that rule enough times to know the consequences definitely weren’t worth it. She was tempted to use her telepathy to steal the information straight from his head. But having him keep secrets from her was seriously annoying. “You trust me, don’t you?” Sophie’s traitorous heart still fluttered, despite her current annoyance. ![]() ![]() ![]() | JUVENILE FICTION / Law & Crime.Ĭlassification: LCC PZ7.1.T57 Wh 2019 | DDC -dc23Ĭarmen Sandiego was always a hero to me. ![]() | JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General. ![]() Title: Who in the world is Carmen Sandiego? / adaptation by Rebecca Tinker based on the teleplay by Duane Capizzi with a foreword by Gina Rodriguez.ĭescription: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, | Series: Carmen Sandiego Identifiers: LCCN 2018020063 | ISBN 9781328495297 (paper over board) Subjects: | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Media Tie-In. The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.Ĭover illustration © 2019 by HMH IP Company Unlimited Company Copyright © 2019 by HMH IP Company Unlimited Company.Ĭarmen Sandiego and associated logos and design are trademarks of HMH IP Company Unlimited Company.Īll rights reserved. ![]() Speak laurie halse5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If the character didn’t lose hope and tried pushing forward it would’ve had a greater moral. I felt like if the character was stronger it would’ve motivated teenagers to be like the character. The author wanted teenagers to read it in order to raise awareness, but I feel like it also tried to say that throughout everything that brings you down, you will go through wild pain. ![]() As Melinda, the main character felt like an outcast, she couldn’t help but go through depression, anxiety, and loss of hope That’s where the downfall in my opinion was. Rape is a sensitive content to the author since it also happened to her when she was a teenager, and it was inspiring that she portrayed it to a story. She also succeeded with the moral of the story, it served a great importance. Anderson’s did an excellent job with making the language simple, as most teenagers would like. The book “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson had its ups and downs. ![]() Into the wilderness donati5/21/2023 ![]() And she meets a man different from any she has ever encountered - a white man dressed like a Native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his blunt honesty. ![]() It is December of 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. When Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, leaves her Aunt Merriweather’s comfortable English estate to join her father and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to teach school. ![]() Chivalry by neil gaiman sparknotes5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]()
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