Author: Chryssa Lyss
Publisher: Cerdik Publications Sdn Bhd
ISBN: 9789837021723
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Author: Alberta L. Richardson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483682943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Called dumb and stupid by family and others because of his severe impediment of speech, 14 year old Jeremy Fisher of Chestnut Grove becomes a run-away, vowing never to return. Hearing the message of JONAH AND THE WHALE, Jeremy is haunted by a voice. Learning about Un-forgiveness and Forgiveness, he realizes he must return home, but surprising things happen. Well kept secrets are revealed. Framed by his brother, and arrested, Jeremy spends time in jail before agreeing with the haunting voice that he really is in a whales belly! Jonah prayed his way out of his whales belly. It takes Forgiveness, and Prayer to lead Jeremy out of his whales belly.

Author: Andy Stanton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1836430485
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more… ‘Something profound and utterly brilliant is going on… hilarious.’ THE TIMES Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical quagmire from which there is no return? A threat to all our jobs, as we keep hearing on the news? Bestselling children’s author Andy Stanton has made a career out of writing differently – from the unconventional ‘hero’ of his bestselling Mr Gum series to his penchant for absurdist plots, his children’s books are anything but formulaic. When a friend introduces him to ChatGPT, the new large language chatbot, Andy is as sceptical as he is curious. Can this jumble of algorithms really mimic the spontaneity of human thought? Could it one day replace human authors like him for good? And are we soon to be ruled over by despotic robot overlords? He decides there’s only one thing for it – he must test this bot’s capabilities. Eventually, he settles on a prompt that will push the algorithm to its creative limits: ‘tell me a story about a blue whale with a tiny penis.’ Chaos ensues. What follows is a surprising and illuminating battle between Andy and ChatGPT that maybe, just maybe, might help us all understand AI a little bit better. Join Andy and his beleaguered AI lackey on a rollicking metafictional journey through the art of storytelling. Presenting his prompts and the AI-generated narrative alongside extensive commentary, Stanton provides a startling paean to the art of a good story and boundless human creativity. Hopeful and hilarious, Benny the Blue Whale provides a joyfully anarchic meditation on AI, literature and why we write. *** A WATERSTONES AND NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF 2023 ‘There’s no book like it. Scholarly, childish, fascinating and hilarious – one of our funniest writers dissects what it takes to build a story and what that tells us about being human. It’ll really make you think, if you can stop laughing.’ Chris Addison, co-creator of BREEDERS ‘Entertaining and alarmingly relevant, provocative and philosophically satisfying, it’s ultimately a profoundly human text.’ OBSERVER ‘A magnificent experiment by a perfect fool – deep and shallow and stupid and clever – the perfect use of AI (Andy Intelligence).’ Robin Ince, author of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING INTERESTED ‘Benny the Blue Whale is many things. It’s a fascinating discourse on the nature of language and storytelling. It’s a philosophical treatise on the possibilities of artificial intelligence. It’s a receptacle for obscenely hilarious jokes... A brilliant and beautiful cyborg: part human brain, part computational muscle. It’s a post-post-modern work of genius.’ Anthony McGowan, Carnegie Medal-winning author of LARK

Author: Deb Lamb
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1665752912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Mykee Dylan finds herself far away from her life in competitive cheer. At nearly fourteen years old, she meets a family she never knew existed and finds herself in a realm of kingdoms, chaos, adventure, and romance. Mykee struggles to balance the tides of the world she has grown to know and love as a cheerleader with the discovery of a hidden realm, revealing family secrets of royal aquatic lineage. Join Mykee as she navigates through every flip, twist, and turn this book series has to offer and explore Oceanna World Emerald Tides.

Author: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316458740
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: The New York Times * NPR * Vogue * Gay Times * Artforum * “Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force.” –Maggie Nelson "Atherton Lin has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-esque range for discussing gay sex.” –New York Times Book Review As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what’s being lost in this indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration of queer history. Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression—whatever your scene, whoever you’re seeking. But in urban centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: What was the gay bar? How have they shaped him? And could this spell the end of gay identity as we know it? In Gay Bar, the author embarks upon a transatlantic tour of the hangouts that marked his life, with each club, pub, and dive revealing itself to be a palimpsest of queer history. In prose as exuberant as a hit of poppers and dazzling as a disco ball, he time-travels from Hollywood nights in the 1970s to a warren of cruising tunnels built beneath London in the 1770s; from chichi bars in the aftermath of AIDS to today’s fluid queer spaces; through glory holes, into Crisco-slicked dungeons and down San Francisco alleys. He charts police raids and riots, posing and passing out—and a chance encounter one restless night that would change his life forever. The journey that emerges is a stylish and nuanced inquiry into the connection between place and identity—a tale of liberation, but one that invites us to go beyond the simplified Stonewall mythology and enter lesser-known battlefields in the struggle to carve out a territory. Elegiac, randy, and sparkling with wry wit, Gay Bar is at once a serious critical inquiry, a love story and an epic night out to remember.

Author: HERMAN MELVILLE
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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A literary classic that wasn't recognized for its merits until decades after its publication, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick tells the tale of a whaling ship and its crew, who are carried progressively further out to sea by the fiery Captain Ahab. Obsessed with killing the massive whale, which had previously bitten off Ahab's leg, the seasoned seafarer steers his ship to confront the creature, while the rest of the shipmates, including the young narrator, Ishmael, and the harpoon expert, Queequeg, must contend with their increasingly dire journey. The book invariably lands on any short list of the greatest American novels. COLLAPSE

Author: Geralyn Dawson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671027948
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Contains the stories : Blue Moon, Castaway, Ruined, Buried Treasure and Swept Away.

Author: Mariah Stewart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781476733326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125

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A romantic summertime short story from New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart, now available as a standalone eBook! A successful oceanside chef meets the man of her dreams—a P.I. with secrets of his own—at a vacation spot packed with memories for them both.

Author: herman melville
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 742

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Languages : en
Pages : 544

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