Nine For Nine

Author : Zach Hines
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062567246

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Nine by Zach Hines Pdf

In this twisted Lauren Oliver-meets-A.S. King debut, Julian has just eight more lives to burn in order to uncover a brutal secret. In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives—and they can’t wait to use them up. The government has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade. Julian’s friends are obsessed with the idea of burning, but Julian is determined to stay on his first life for as long as he can. His mother burned too fast and inflicted a debilitating rebirth sickness on herself. Julian realizes that he’s going to have to burn at some point—especially when he becomes a target for Nicholas, the manipulative leader of the Burners, the school’s suicide club. And when Julian eventually succumbs, he uncovers suspicious gaps in the rebirth system that may explain exactly why his mother went so far down the rabbit hole years ago. Along with a group of student dissenters, Julian sets out to find answers and is soon on the verge of exposing the greatest conspiracy ever unleashed on the world.

Author : Amy Webb
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781541773745

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The Big Nine by Amy Webb Pdf

A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we -- the everyday people whose data powers AI -- aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into -- one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations -- Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple--are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain. In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI -- the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself -- is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity. Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course, and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.

Author : Anthony Boucher
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504057394

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Nine Times Nine by Anthony Boucher Pdf

Sister Ursula, a Los Angeles nun who makes a habit of sleuthing, tackles a locked room murder in this “delightful . . . original” mystery classic (The New York Times Book Review). Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O’Breen, amateur sleuth Sister Ursula, and alcoholic ex-cop Nick Noble. The guilty better say their prayers when Sister Ursula is on the case—in this acclaimed mystery novel, which remains “as expert as a fencer’s skill and as fresh as a daisy” (The New York Times Book Review). The head of the Children of Light, cloaked in his yellow robe, has placed the ancient curse of the Nine Times Nine upon Wolfe Harrigan, the famed author and debunker of cults, who naturally scoffs. The next day, Wolfe’s assistant, Matt Duncan, sees something in the window of Wolfe’s study that throws him into a panic: a man in a yellow robe. When Wolfe is found alone and dead inside the study, the police are stumped. All the windows were locked, and Wolfe’s sister, who was sitting right outside the door, claims she saw no one come out. The baffling case doesn’t add up for family friend Sister Ursula. But she’ll need a miracle if she hopes to divine the truth before the killer strikes again . . .

Author : Peter Walton
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9798886443943

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Las Lecciones de Dios by Peter Walton Pdf

El rescate de 33 mineros atrapados bajo el nivel del suelo en el desierto chileno por 69 dias en el 2010 reunio al mundo en oracion. Esto es un testimonio a la fe, la creencia y la persistencia de los mineros, las tripulaciones de rescate y el poder de Dios para llevar a cada hombre de nuevo al nivel del suelo. La parte extra de este libro detalla un rescate milagroso similar en la Mina Quecreek en Somerset, PA en julio del 2002. Este tiempo de 18 hombres, 9 de los cuales estuvieron atrapados por 3 dias y medio, con el agua que subia a un nivel donde se hallaron presionados contra el techo, tomando lo que consideraban sus ultimos suspiros.

Author : Marie Heaney
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 057117518X

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Over Nine Waves by Marie Heaney Pdf

'These legends are the action-packed stories - of ancient heroes, huge battles, attempted invasions, prophecies and spells, clashes between the underworld and the real world, abductions, love affairs and feasts - which have fascinated the Irish mind for more than 2,000 years . . . Most of them have an extraordinary, stark narrative sweep, with a marvellous sense of detail . . . Heaney writes directly and fluently . . . with great tact and skill.' Sunday Times

Author : Andrzej Stasiuk
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0151010641

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Nine by Andrzej Stasiuk Pdf

Pawel, a young businessman in debt to loan sharks, wakes up one April morning in a sea of debris, broken glass, ripped upholstery, and clothes spilling out of the wardrobe. He turns to two friends for help: Bolek, a former coal miner, now a drug dealer who lives in tasteless luxury; and Jacek, an addict, who is himself on the run through Warsaw, a washed-out city, a hostile landscape of apartment blocks, railroad stations, wild gardens, factories, and suburban wastelands.In this novel Andrzej Stasiuk portrays a generation of Poles, freed from outdated ideologies but left feeling adrift and disconnected from family, neighbors, and friends. At once existential crime fiction and a work of art, Nine establishes Stasiuk as a major voice in European literature.

Author : Alan M. Gratz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101014806

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The Brooklyn Nine by Alan M. Gratz Pdf

1845: Felix Schneider, an immigrant from Germany, cheers the New York Knickerbockers as they play Three-Out, All-Out. 1908: Walter Snider, batboy for the Brooklyn Superbas, arranges a team tryout for a black pitcher by pretending he is Cuban. 1945: Kat Snider of Brooklyn plays for the Grand Rapids Chicks in the All-American Girls Baseball League. 1981: Michael Flint fi nds himself pitching a perfect game during the Little League season at Prospect Park. And there are fi ve more Schneiders to meet. In nine innings, this novel tells the stories of nine successive Schneider kids and their connection to Brooklyn and baseball. As in all family histories and all baseball games, there is glory and heartache, triumph and sacrifi ce. And it ain?t over till it?s over.

Author : Gwen Strauss
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250239303

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The Nine by Gwen Strauss Pdf

"[A] narrative of unfathomable courage... Ms. Strauss does her readers—and her subjects—a worthy service by returning to this appalling history of the courage of women caught up in a time of rapacity and war." —Wall Street Journal "Utterly gripping." —Anne Sebba, author of Les Parisiennes "A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival. The story of Women’s resistance during World War II needs to be told and The Nine accomplishes this in spades." —Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of Cilka's Journey The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They were arrested by French police, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo. They were subjected to a series of French prisons and deported to Germany. The group formed along the way, meeting at different points, in prison, in transit, and at Ravensbrück. By the time they were enslaved at the labor camp in Leipzig, they were a close-knit group of friends. During the final days of the war, forced onto a death march, the nine chose their moment and made a daring escape. Drawing on incredible research, this powerful, heart-stopping narrative from Gwen Strauss is a moving tribute to the power of humanity and friendship in the darkest of times.

Author : Rachelle Dekker
Publisher : Revell
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493423200

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Nine by Rachelle Dekker Pdf

Zoe Johnson spent most of her life living in the shadows, never drawing attention to herself, never investing in people or places. But when a wide-eyed, bedraggled teenager with no memory walks into the diner where Zoe works, everything changes. Now, against her better judgment, Zoe, who has been trying to outrun her own painful memories of the past, finds herself attempting to help a girl who doesn't seem to have any past at all. The girl knows only one thing: she must reach a woman in Corpus Christi, Texas, hundreds of miles away, before the government agents who are searching for her catch up to them. Award-winning author Rachelle Dekker throws you into the middle of the action and keeps the pressure on in this page-turning story that, asks Are we who the world says we are--or can we change our story and be something more?

Author : Deborah Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Iran
ISBN : 1927485975

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Moon at Nine by Deborah Ellis Pdf

In 1988 Tehran, teenaged girls Farrin and Sadira are sentenced to death for homosexuality. Farrin prays that her wealthy family will be able to save them before it is too late. Based on a true story.-- "Publisher"

Author : Brian Haberlin,Aaron Bullock,Clayton Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1582401845

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The Nine Rings of Wu-Tang by Brian Haberlin,Aaron Bullock,Clayton Henry Pdf

Author : CM Kelly
Publisher : CM Kelly
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781962155571

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Know thy Neighbor by CM Kelly Pdf

Presenting a collection of 22 eclectic short stories chronicling my life's adventures. From Azerbaijan to Zanesville, these narratives capture the essence of: a few of my global travels, filled with quirky and unique encounters. Others delve into the cherished moments of my upbringing amidst eight siblings on a rural dirt road, with a few stories about my unapologetic pursuit of success while climbing the corporate ladder. While names and details have been blurred with time, each tale is anchored in reality, albeit with a touch of embellishment. A captivating read from start to finish.

Author : Marina Billinghurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177814070X

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The Nine Magical Butterflies by Marina Billinghurst Pdf

The Nine Magical Butterflies: A Creative Journey to Transformation Have you ever suffered from crippling fear and anxiety because the thought of an imperfect outcome was unacceptable? Do you believe that you're deserving of something more, but don't know how to begin the process of change? Is the idea of putting paintbrush to paper intimidating? Paint your way through fears, creative blocks, and personal trauma. Within the heart of happiness lies the ability to believe in yourself. In order to do that, you must trust the process, both on the page and in life. After a traumatic experience that shattered her notion of what life was supposed to look like for a mid-thirties woman, Marina Billinghurst turned to the one thing she's always been able to count on: watercolor painting, in all of its imperfections, that's where she practiced letting go. She learned to face her fears. Giving in to the transformative process, it helped her heal. This is when she painted The 9 Magical Butterflies. This symbolic representation of change is what Marina wants to share with you. A non-scientific approach to art therapy as a way of exploring emotions, no artistic talent required! It's simply about you, your brush, and what flows through it. Imperfect art is such only if we believe it to be so, and moving past that block can help free you in other aspects of life. It's in the creating; the magic of the paint going from wet to dry, that transformation lies. Allowing that process to happen organically is the key. It was for Marina, and she hopes it can be for you, too.

Author : Nora Raleigh Baskin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781442485075

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Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin Pdf

Includes a reading group guide with discussion questions.

Author : Peter David,Michael Jan Friedman,Robert Greenberger
Publisher : Pocket Books/Star Trek
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Bajor (Imaginary place)
ISBN : 0671538179

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Wrath of the Prophets by Peter David,Michael Jan Friedman,Robert Greenberger Pdf

Science fiction roman.