The United Beaks was an Avian federation officially formed about 200 million years ago with many of its states having a digitally documented history of more than 5 billion years, which had wiped out all superintelligent mammals in the universe around 2 billion years ago and again around 800 million years ago. It was an organization with 7 levels of civilizations, 29 superpowers, 62 top-level states, 3,847 autonomous states, 3 billion species and 786 quintillion people, not an amazingly lar...

Despite her incessant flirting, Aria Firorelli is actually quite inexperienced and clueless when it comes to men. Then gorgeous Jonas Miller breezes into town and sweeps her off her feet. When passion sparks between them, they share a sizzling night before he heads back east without a word, shattering her heart.Now, after six months of radio silence, Jonas is back, living and working nearby and ready to rev things up again. Never! Aria swears. How stupid was he to leave her, and ho...

‘A comic odyssey, a crime thriller and a nuts-and-bolts account of making art. Not bad for one book!’ PAUL KELLY‘Completely marvellous! Couldn’t wipe the smile off my face. You’ll swear he wrote it just for you. Ain’t no world in which Robert effing Forster missed his calling, but, damn, the bloke was born to write books.’ TRENT DALTONIt’s 1991, and Australian singer-songwriters Mick Woods and Drew Lovelock – 'tall and skinny, rock-star-wre...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONA revelatory exploration of the relationship between music and running by one of our foremost music writers**Out the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. This is how Ben Ratliff’s runs started most days of the week for about a decade. Sometimes listening to music, not always. Then, at the beginning of the pandemic, he began taking notes about what he listened to. H...

A revelatory exploration of the relationship between music and running by one of our foremost music writersOut the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. This is how Ben Ratliff’s runs started most days of the week for about a decade—sometimes listening to music, not always. Then, at the beginning of the pandemic, he began taking notes about what he listened to. He wondered if a body in motion, his body, was helping ...

Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind “Walk This Way,” Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music.The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums, while clubs and house parties in New York City had spawned a new genre of music. At the time, though, hip hop's reach was limited, an art form largely ignored by mainstream r...

'A comic odyssey, a crime thriller and a nuts-and-bolts account of making art. Not bad for one book!' PAUL KELLYIt's 1991, and Australian singer-songwriters Mick Woods and Drew Lovelock - 'tall and skinny, rock-star-wrecked handsome' - haven't yet managed to crack the big-time. But that's soon to be the least of their problems.On tour in Central Queensland, what seems like a minor marijuana bust turns ugly, and they're incarcerated in a low-security institu...

Dear Friend,I saw a TV movie years ago when people said the television was pretty good. I had Cable for a while but I too complained there was still nothing to watch. However, a small movie I watched I remember. It was called Miguel. I watched it for about 12 minutes. And the movie was over. This book is not based on the TV movie. It is remembering the movie Miguel and how he had leukemia but he played football. It was not a sad movie. On the contrary, I bawled ou...

**Mysterious Events Plague a Greenhouse in Pennsylvania’s Amish CountryWhere Is the Hope in Grief for a Young Amish Widow?**Sylvia has been nearly paralyzed with grief and anxiety since the tragic death of her husband, father, and brother in a traffic accident. She tries to help in the family’s greenhouse while caring for her two young children, but she prefers not to have to deal with customers. Her mother’s own grief causes her to hover over her children and grandchildren...

Pike's Run, Texas, 1883In the dead of night, Maggie Nelson flees New Orleans with her five-year old daughter, Iris. Maggie can't live with her abusive husband any longer and seeks safety in the home and arms of her aunt, Aletta Williamson in Bordersville, near Pike's Run, Texas. When she arrives, surprising her dear aunt, Maggie tells her Haywood died. She is too ashamed to tell the truth about her marriage.Pete Jerkin, the town blacksmith and live...

Explore the beacon chain, Ethereum's PoS consensus, and the upcoming merge of Eth1 and Eth2, along with the challenges of scaling Ethereum, and an overview of L1 and L2 scaling solutions Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesLearn new development with Ethereum 2.0 and the planned merge of Eth1 and Eth2Build, develop, and test end-to-end Ethereum dApps using Solidity, Node.js, and Web3Setup private blockchains...

Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind “Walk This Way,” Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music.The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums, while clubs and house parties in New York City had spawned a new genre of music. At the time, though, hip hop's reach was limited, an art form largely ignored by mainstream r...