![]() ![]() The company was founded by Elizabeth Holmes, a charismatic young entrepreneur who became an overnight sensation and earned billions of dollars in investment capital and media attention.īut as Carreyrou reveals, Theranos' technology never worked as advertised, and its claims were based on a web of lies and deception. ![]() The book tells the story of Theranos, a Silicon Valley startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing with a technology that could perform hundreds of tests using just a single drop of blood. "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou is a riveting account of one of the most spectacular corporate frauds in recent history. Chapter 1 Insightful Book Review and Summary of Bad Blood ![]()
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The legend first appeared in Christopher Morley's 1939 novel Kitty Foyle. ![]() ![]() The Baby Train, or simply Baby Train, is an urban legend told in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. For the movement of orphans to the west in the late 19th century, see Orphan Train. ![]() ![]() ![]() Renée graduated from The New School, where she studied Creative Writing and earned a certificate in Drama Therapy. : Some Places More Than Others (9781526613684) by Watson, Renée and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. She has facilitated poetry and theatre workshops with young girls coping with sexual and physical abuse, children who have witnessed violence, children coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and children who relocated to New York City after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. One of Renée’s passions is using the arts to help youth cope with trauma. : Some Places More Than Others (9781681191089) by Watson, Renée and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. She also facilitates professional development workshops for teachers and artists. ![]() ![]() Renée has worked in public schools and community organizations as an artist in residence for several years, teaching poetry, fiction, and theater in Oregon, Louisiana, and New York City. When Renée is not writing and performing, she is teaching. Her poetry and articles have been published in Rethinking Schools, Theatre of the Mind and With Hearts Ablaze. Renée’s one woman show, Roses are Red, Women are Blue, debuted at New York City's Lincoln Center at a showcase for emerging artists. Her middle grade novel, What Momma Left Me debuted as the New Voice for 2010 in middle grade fiction by The Independent Children's Booksellers Association. Renée Watson is the author of the children’s picture book, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen (Random House, June 2010), which was featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. ![]() ![]() ![]() “You may not admit it aloud, but I know you will read this book and wonder how your lover would taste sautéed with shallots and mushrooms and deglazed with a little red wine.” The novel’s narrator, Dorothy Daniels, would probably be delighted to hear this, tapping her fingers together in her cell at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where she eats barely edible mush and tells us her story. She also cooks them straight-up gourmet: A lover’s liver is turned into pâté and spread on Tuscan toast.) The book made me.hungry? How? Maybe I have some soul-searching to do. ![]() (We’re talking about a pair of braised butt cheeks-”roast rump”-here and a skinned tongue there, not like the whole bod. The premise is: An esteemed old-school restaurant critic loves to kill the men she sleeps with. A place where sex and food entwine so grossly and explicitly that it makes you laugh, scream, and need a drink as stiff as this innuendo. ![]() Summers’ new novel, A Certain Hunger, went to the place we, Bon Appétit, and I, writer lady, never go. That was the moment I realized Chelsea G. It was the “semeny chowder” that did it for me. ![]() ![]() A tease acts out her ultimate fantasy with a group of guys. What happens when your deepest fantasy - the one you crave most - comes true?Ī busy lawyer longs to be disciplined by her crush. ![]() And it’s just the beginning.Ĭan she dive in and live out her fantasies?Ĭan she let the past go and learn to trust?Īnd when no one’s who they seem - good twin, bad twin, or shy honors student - will her heart tell a different story? ![]() She figures she’ll test the waters, but that night pulls her into the steamiest deep end imaginable. Right before graduation, Brendan breaks the silence to invite Di for a swim. And Ian - well, it’s easier to look the other way and pretend she doesn’t see his smirk. Now, Di can barely handle a hello to Brendan. Ian, the "bad twin," leaves a mess of pranks, collisions, girls, and attitude behind.Īs kids, the O'Brian twins were practically Diana's brothers. Brendan, the "good twin," attracts everyone with easygoing friendliness. No one suspects the dirty fantasies running through her mind.īrendan and Ian O'Brian, the hot twins next door, are home from UConn for the summer: gorgeous, athletic, basking in popularity. No one suspects the sexy lingerie hiding under her vintage dresses. ![]() She was a good girl, she was a bad girl.who knew what the truth really was.ĭiana Cooper is eighteen, eager to graduate and go to Yale, and too shy to really look a boy in the eye. ![]() ![]() In 2019, Fatal Shadows became the first LGBTQ mobile game created by Moments: Choose Your Story.She is an EPIC Award winner, a four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist (twice for Gay Mystery), an Edgar nominee, and the first ever recipient of the Goodreads All-Time Favorite M/M Author award.Find other Josh Lanyon titles at Josh on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads. Read 489 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. ![]() The Adrien English series was awarded the All-Time Favorite Couple by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group. In 2016 Fatal Shadows placed #5 in Japan’s annual Boy Love novel list (the first and only title by a foreign author to place on the list). Stranger on the Shore (Harper Collins Italia) was the first M/M title to be published in print. Clever and ambitious, Special Agent Adam Darling (yeah, he’s heard all the jokes before) was on the fast track to promotion and success until his mishandling of a high profile operation left one person dead and Adam On the Beach. Her FBI thriller Fair Game was the first Male/Male title to be published by Harlequin Mondadori, then the largest romance publisher in Italy. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are still wondering how to get free PDF EPUB of book Winter Kill by Josh Lanyon. Author of nearly ninety titles of classic Male/Male fiction featuring twisty mystery, kickass adventure, and unapologetic man-on-man romance, JOSH LANYON’S work has been translated into eleven languages. PDF / EPUB File Name: WinterKill-JoshLanyon.pdf, WinterKill-JoshLanyon.epub PDF File Size: 1016 KB EPUB File Size: 564 KB PDF EPUB Winter Kill Download. ![]() ![]() ![]() An example is when the police offers a reward for a tip from the general public– they don’t want to build a relationship with the tipster, they just want that specific information.Īlso, carrots and sticks work as a fear factor– by telling people that if they don’t do something, a fearful thing will happen, people will obey. Carrots and sticks work for a one-time transaction where you’re not trying to nurture a relationship. ![]() In these examples, Sinek shows the motivation of carrot and sticks which has its place. The first part of Start With Why covers the examples of the world that doesn’t start with why. The secret lies in leading with Why you do what you do. All companies know what they do, some companies know how they do it, but only a handful of them know why they do what they do. The book describes the Golden Circle – the Why (Why you do what you do), the How (How you do what you do), and What (What you actually do). ![]() Book Title: Start With Why Author: Simon Sinek Date of Reading: December 2017 Rating: 8/10 What Is The Book About As A Whole: ![]() ![]() ![]() and Roots Soulfly's Dark Ages Obituary's Cause of Death and every album by the Elric-influenced metal band Cirith Ungol. Whelan provided covers and interior illustrations for Stephen King's The Gunslinger and The Dark Tower, the first and last of his Dark Tower books.Ĭover art by Michael Whelan has graced many music record albums including Demolition Hammer's Epidemic of Violence, The Jacksons' Victory Sepultura's Beneath the Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D. Beam Piper's Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch series and Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive. Heinlein's novels including Friday and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Ace editions of H. Lovecraft's short story collections, the DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné books, numerous DAW editions of C. His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars series, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the Del Rey editions of H. His work was a dominant force in the transition of genre book covers away from the surrealism introduced in the 1950s and 1960s back to realism. ![]() Michael Whelan is one of the most important contemporary science fiction and fantasy artists, and certainly the most popular. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Doubleday Book Club Featured Alternate Selection.Literary Guild Featured Alternate Selection.Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips? ![]() Bay’s sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. ![]() But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Yes, there are rumors that she’s having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder.Īnnabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he’s recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was why so many regular Americans were drawn to a man like Donald Trump. The question was suddenly no longer why Democrats struggled to appeal to regular Americans. ![]() And then, of course, came the 2016 presidential campaign. Then came the stories about a surge in opiate addiction among white Americans, alongside shocking reports of rising mortality rates (including by suicide) among middle-aged whites. From opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, they made the case that social breakdown among low-income whites was starting to mimic trends that had begun decades earlier among African Americans: Rates of out-of-wedlock births and male joblessness were rising sharply. Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis came out last year. Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 was published in 2012, and Robert D. Today, less privileged white Americans are considered to be in crisis, and the language of sociologists and pathologists predominates. Listen to the audio version of this article: Download the Audm app for your iPhone to listen to more titles. ![]() |