@leventmolla.bsky.social
Writer and Translator, Retired Industrial Engineer and Academician. Developed software and managed software projects for 45 years. Nowadays developing iOS software with SwiftUI and slowly writing historical novels.
In the Year 1799, Dejima is the only location in Japan that foreign merchants can establish trade with Japan. The second Shogun has prohibited foreigners to set foot in the Japanese islands, thus the Dutch dominate trade to Japan via a trading factory.
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Bravo Zeynep! İlk sette 3-0 geri düştükten sonra 7-6 kazanıp ikinci seti 6-0 alabilmesi inanılmaz bir başarı doğrusu. #indianwells #zeynepsönmez
04.03.2026 23:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Matthieu Zela has a strange affliction: He stopped ageing when he reached 50 years of age. Thus he has been living for more than 250 years. The book then goes into several parallel narratives of Matthieu's adventures in the various periods.
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The two ships "The Terror" and "Erebus" are stuck in the Arctic region when a sudden cold spell freezes most of the open water. The captains of the two ships do their best to try everything within their imagination to set their ships free and continue their voyage.
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Bravo Zeynep! Çok daha güçlü bir rakibe karşı, hem de ilk seti verdikten sonra müthiş bir eforla maçı aldı. #wta500 #merida #zeynepsönmez
27.02.2026 00:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The book takes its name from the 9 circles of Hell Dante Alighieri had described in his Inferno and introduces a 10th one that one of the protagonists thinks should be needed. However, this is just a very subtle theme which is not related to the underlying story.
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Doherty's books combine historical stories with crime mystery elements to provide an exciting combination to the reader.
This book reduces the mystery element to almost zero and provides a fictional account of the Crusades and the origins of the Templar Knights.
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This is the story of a wronged man, the so-called Tavern Knight of the title, who is trying to survive during the conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles II in England. Mildly gripping story with a not-so-compelling conclusion, it is somewhat readable.
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It follows the life of the author in Ireland and Americt. When the McCourt family can not make ends meet and they lose two children to poverty, due to the inability of the father to keep a job and to keep drinks out, they have to move back to Ireland.
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Complex and interesting book about North korean assassins targeting the U.S. and the Presidential Family. With the North Korean hacking event just before Christmas of 2014, it looks like another case of life imitating arts....
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Başkomser Nevzat işlenen bir cinayeti araştırırken hem polis teşkilatının içindeki başına buyruk yapılarla hem de görünürde Süryaniler ve Mor Gabriel kilisesiyle ilgili tarihi eserlerle ilgilenen şaibeli tiplerle mücadele etmesi gerekecektir.
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Azra Tekin kendi ölümüne yol açan olayları ve ölümünden sonra gözleyebildiklerini okuyucuyla paylaşıyor.
Polisiye öğeleri, Türkiye siyasetinin izdüşümleri anlatıyı bir dereceye kadar ilginç kılsa da olay örgüsü biraz zayıf kalmış.
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Expats living in Paris and deciding to travel to Pamplona to watch and get more acquainted with bullfighting are feeling the effects of the Great War and the meaninglessness of life after that cataclysm, they go in search of events that could show them what to do.
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Sage who is a young baker attending a grief group to cope with the death of her mother, very soon after the death of her father. Josef is an old man who has been very active in the neighbourhood for many years and everyone seems to have good relations with him.
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Yankı Yazgan'ın kısa gazete yazılarından oluşan kitap, 2007 yılının güncel olaylarından da bahsediyor. Belki olaylar ve işlediği psikolojik konular ilginç ama yazıların kısalığı fazla bir şey almamıza engel oluyor. Bu haliyle kitaptan zevk almadığımı söylemeliyim.
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It is the time of Constantine, the Roman Emperor, who is trying to decide how to treat the newly emerging Christian faith, and murders are being committed close to the Emperor and his mother. Claudia the detective is trying to solve the gruesome murders.
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Dance is interrogating Daniel Pell, the self-proclaimed cult leader who had killed almost all the members of a family along with women in his "Family" who would follow him bravely. He escapes, and Dance is in his trail, in a destructive search in California.
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I’ve tried the new OpenAI Codex integration in the Beta version of Xcode 6.3 and used it on an existing project. Part 2 of a series…
#Xcode #swift #swiftUI #swiftData
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I’ve tried the new OpenAI Codex integration in the Beta version of Xcode 6.3 and used it on an existing project. Part 1 of a series…
#Xcode #swift #swiftUI #swiftData
open.substack.com/pub/backtoso...
Rhyme and Sachs are trying to discover the identity and motive of a serial killer who is killing his victims by tattooing them using organic poisons. The killer seems to be obsessed with an earlier serial killer Rhyme caught, The Bone Collector.
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The continuing threat to the remaining technological advancements left after the demise of the AI AIVAS and the constant worry about whether the previously taken actions have been successful to stop the fall of Thread permanently.
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The last book of the Pellinor Saga finds Maerad and Cadvan struggling with the onslaught of an army with several elemental beings whereas Hem is looking for Maerad along with Saliman. Finally reunited, brother and sister now have to make the Treesong whole again.
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Helva is a cyborg with a human brain in a spaceship. She is one of many humans with defects and trained to become brain ships, with their feeble bodies protected and used to guide the ships across space. She is different from the others since she can sing.
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Kate is the director of the Globe in London. Visited by her Professor and provided an obscure message about a secret that is to be uncovered, she starts roaming the globe to evade a deadly killer who leaves dead bodies and burnt remains of Shakespeare folios.
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This is the complex tale of an archeologist whose son disappeared in an archeological site in Rome after he and his friends went in.
If you can survive until the very end, you will see the untangling of a complex tale and a surprise ending.
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A woman who marries a rich family but finds herself the Mistress of Pope Rodrigo Borgia; a Venetian cook who escapes from her father's house along with his recipes; and a Dwarf who is in search of a serial killer.
It is a masterful web of intertwined stories.
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Fiona Bristow is living in a small island community and operating her Dog Training business. She had been kidnapped by a serial killer but has escaped, but has paid for this when the escaped killer came back and killed her boyfriend. Then the murders start again.
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Emma Donoghue has taken a real event from 19th Century England and has created a gripping tale out of it. The background given to us is really grim. Women do not have any right to property or even custody of their children in case of a divorce.
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When Sam fires a gun he took from his father's gun rack without permission, he has a near-miss with the notorious Major Bates. He stays silent for a while, but when the town Peter Groche is wrongly accused of this misdeed he has to step up and own his deed.
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Yurt dışında eğitim gören Derya’nın annesinin kocasının hastalanması üzerine oraya gitmek için hazırlanırken keşfettiği sırlar ve anne-babasının sakladıklarını keşfetme süreci anlatılıyor.
Arka plandaki hikayeyi ve çözüm sürecini çok etkileyici bulmadım.
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