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Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Michelle Andelman, Regal Literary. So when Bria meets Rowan, devoted backpacker and dive instructor, and his outspoken sister. 2012) and fell in love, with the book, the writing, the characters, and travelling. Bria’s charged relationship with Rowan and the vast emotional and physical territory Hubbard covers make for an evocative and romantic read. Middle-aged tourists are hardly the key to self-rediscovery. I read Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc. The sincerity of Bria’s narration is balanced by a healthy dose of sarcasm, and her journaling and delicate, skillful pencil drawings contribute to the novel’s strong sense of place. From Guatemala, Rowan and Bria make their way to a Belizean island where they stay in hostels, get on each other’s nerves, and skirt conversations about their pasts: both are angry at themselves and focused on changing themselves. Upon arriving in Guatemala, she is disappointed by the tame, touristy group, and when a handsome stranger named Rowan and his half-sister, Starling, invite her to travel with them, she jumps at the opportunity. ![]() When 18-year-old Bria Sandoval is dumped, her art school plans fall through, and her two best friends renege on their summer travel plans, Bria signs up for a “Global Vagabond” tour in Central America. Hubbard’s second novel, following Like Mandarin, is rich with the unexpected joys and tribulations of new experiences. ![]()
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Johnny got his gun by dalton trumbo5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1938, he published one of the most famous anti-war novels ever written, Johnny Got His Gun. Before Trumbo appeared before the committee and invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination and protested the bullying technique of the committee, he had been a successful screenwriter in Hollywood, though his greatest screenplays would come later. ![]() Among them was Dalton Trumbo, easily the biggest name and arguably the greatest talent among the ten. When the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) turned its attention to Hollywood in the late 40s (to generate lots of publicity and boost their own popularity in America’s Heartland by going after an easy target-Hollywood leftists-let me be clear, the left in Hollywood was never any threat to America the greater threat was intimidation of those exercising their right to free speech and association), there were 10 men, popularly known as the Hollywood Ten, who boldly stood on their constitutional rights and refused to play the committee’s game. Before going any further, I must confess that Dalton Trumbo is one of my heroes. ![]()
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The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The Forgetting is an utterly absorbing read from start to finish. As the anarchy of the Forgetting approaches, Nadia and Gray must stop an unseen enemy that threatens both their city and their own existence - before the people can forget the truth. But when Nadia begins to use her memories to solve the mysteries of Canaan, she discovers truths about herself and Gray, the handsome glassblower, that will change her world forever. ![]() Because she is the only person in Canaan who has never forgotten. In Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows exactly who hasn’t written the truth. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person’s memories - of parents, children, love, life, and self - are lost. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. ![]()
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In the book the giver5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Then, after a sexually charged dream involving Fiona that forms Jonas's first Stirrings, his parents give him the pills that will suppress these Stirrings.Īt the Ceremony, Jonas sits through the Naming at the Ceremony of One, which Gabriel will miss because the Nurturers have decided to give him an extra year of care before deciding whether to assign him a family unit or to release him. ![]() The next day, he joins Asher and Fiona at the House of the Old, where Larissa tells him about Roberto's release ceremony, after which Roberto will go Elsewhere. ![]() Lily decides that she will begin volunteering hours at the Nurturing Center after she turns Nine, and Jonas recalls a strange incident where he saw an apple suddenly change before returning to the same nondescript shade as his shirt. Jonas's father brings home a newchild who needs extra care, and they call him Gabriel, although Father is not yet supposed to know the child's name. ![]() They remind him that his life will change after the Ceremony, but they reassure him that the Committee of Elders has been watching him closely and will give him an appropriate Assignment. That night, at the nightly sharing of feelings, after his sister, father, and mother discuss their emotions, his parents comfort him about his worries. Jonas begins The Giver feeling uneasy about the upcoming Ceremony of Twelve, where he will receive the Assignment that determines his vocation for the rest of his working life. ![]()
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The falls by joyce carol oates5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Her characters are often prototypes of the nation, and their growth from naïveté to wisdom and pain reflect aspects of the national destiny that she sees in the evolving society around her. Oates concerns herself with the formulation of the American Dream and how it has changed and even soured through the decades of American prosperity and preeminence. In many cases, her stories are crystallized versions of the types of characters and dramatic moments found in larger works over the years, the themes and stylistic approaches in the two genres maintained a parallel progression. Both forms figure centrally in her overall work. ![]() Unlike many writers who produce both long and short fiction, Oates never subordinated her stories to her novels: They represent in sum a no less considerable achievement, and Oates is by no means a novelist who sometimes writes stories, nor for that matter a storyteller who sometimes writes novels. It is difficult to separate Oates’s short fiction from her novels, for she consistently produced volumes in both genres throughout her career. ![]() The chiefly rural and small-town milieu of her earlier work expanded over the years, as did her vision of passion and violence in the United States in the twentieth century. Early in her career, she drew comparisons with such predecessors as Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner. Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is a very American writer. ![]()
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Arthur and george novel5/28/2023 ![]() This drama contains scenes which may not be suitable for all audiences. Adapted by the riveting novel by Julian Barnes and based on true events, Arthur & George is a gripping three-part drama with all the twists and turns of the finest classic crime fiction, co-starring Arsher Ali ( The Missing), Charles Edwards ( Downton Abbey), Hattie Morahan ( The Bletchley Circle), and Art Malik ( The Jewel in the Crown). Outraged by injustice to an Anglo-Indian solicitor, Doyle uses the methods of his own fictional detective to get at the truth. Martin Clunes ( Doc Martin) stars as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, in a real-life case that inspired the great author to put down his pen and turn detective. Also starring Arsher Ali, Charles Edwards, Hattie Morahan, and Art Malik. ![]() ![]() Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) stars as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, in this adaptation of Julian Barnes's thrilling novel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Hamilton served in the American Revolutionary War as senior aide-de-camp and confidant to General George Washington, the American commander-in-chief. As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was the primary author of the economic policies of the George Washington administration, especially the funding of the state debts by the Federal government, the establishment of a national bank, a system of tariffs, and friendly trade relations with Britain. ![]() Hamilton was one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the Constitution, the founder of the nation's financial system, and the founder of the first American political party. Additional information via the digital edition: nd on Founders OnlineĪ comprehensive edition of the papers of Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), one of the founders of the United States of America. ![]()
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The signature of all things gilbert5/28/2023 ![]() The Signature of All Things is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.”- Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review ![]() “ Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. Alma is a clear-minded scientist Ambrose a utopian artist-but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life. As Alma’s research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction-into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Born in 1800, Henry’s brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father’s money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. ![]() ![]() Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker-a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Sunshine is known for her power to make sad people smile and her unique sense of humor. Sunshine is my first book series and one that I am deeply proud to have created. My books make wonderful bedtime stories and are especially appropriate for children's reading circles. I usually have a small child in mind when I create a character and dedicate the book to him or her. Writing for young children in the 3-7 year age range is a special passion of mine. ![]()
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Django zorro 1 quentin tarantino5/28/2023 ![]() “We saw each other at one of those parties. “He talked to me, I think on the Oscar night when I was nominated for Pain and Glory,” said Banderas. Speaking recently with USA Today, Bandares shared that he had talked to Tarantino about the role. ![]() In 2019, the story was that Jerrod Carmichael ( The Carmichael Show) had been picked to handle the scripting duties on the project. He takes a liking to Django and hires him as his ‘bodyguard.’ The two then work on a mission to free enslaved locals.Īs early as 2014, thanks to the Sony email hack, it has been known Tarantino was interested in turning the comic into a film. There he meets an aged Diego de la Vega, the man known as Zorro. The story was set several years after the events of the film, and saw Django continuing his work as a bounty hunter in the western United States. The result was Django/Zorro which was co-published by DC’s Vertigo imprint and Dynamite Comics. It once looked as though Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained was going to be getting a sequel, but that plan now appears to be dead.įollowing the success of his 2012 film, Tarantino worked on his first-ever comic book sequel to one of his films. ![]() |