![]() Karter is used to his life revolving around work, but when he decides he wants someone to share it with, he falls for someone his mother would never approve of: hilarious, quirky Dreamy, who has goals of her own.but also isn't a wealthy, upper-crust socialite. Instead of attending movie premieres, however, he prefers spending his time helping the less fortunate, backing start-up companies and investing in cutting edge ideas. ![]() Growing up with a father who is an A-list actor and a socialite mother, venture capitalist Karter Redford lives in the world of the rich and famous. ![]() Who cares if he has the social grace of the Duke of Sussex and the suaveness of Idris Elba? No distractions allowed. When she catches the attention of her boss's potential investor, Dreamy has to remind herself to focus on her career goals so she can be her own boss. So what if she lives in a seedy part of Los Angeles in a house that's one earthquake away from crumbling, or works an unfulfilling secretarial job while struggling to finish her bachelor's degree? All Dreamy needs to do is win the lottery, which she's been entering in as a weekly tradition with her grandfather. ![]() This is the mantra that will get Dreamy Daniels through each day until she makes it big. "A woman learns the hard way about mixing business with pleasure in this hilarious new romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Sharon C. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (Yes, the audience probably knows the sword is Excalibur, but they're just going to call it "The Sword of Power" the entire time for a bit of mystique.) Unfortunately, much of the excitement in the first season - especially a major reveal in the finale - relies on a familiarity with the lore in the audience. After her entire tribe is brutally murdered by the Red Paladins (pretty much just the Faith Militant from Game of Thrones), she is sent to save her people by delivering a precious sword to the infamous Merlin (Gustaf Skarsgård). Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler's Cursed, based on the pair's original novel, follows Nimue (Langford), a young Fey sorceress, on a tragic mission of destiny. That is, if it didn't rely so heavily on poorly executed winks and nudges to the original mythos. By centering this new story on the ever-mysterious Lady of the Lake, Cursed could have been the next great female-centric fantasy adventure, adding something fresh to a vast mystical canon. Play When done well, Arthurian stories have found a place in all genres, between the animated The Sword in the Stone, the comedic musical gem Spamalot, and the BBC’s beloved coming-of-age saga Merlin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner of the Massachusetts Children's Book Award " classic coming-of-age book." - Philadelphia Daily NewsĪ New York Herald Tribune Best Teenage BookĪ Chicago Tribune Book World Spring Book Festival Honor Book "Taut with tension, filled with drama." - The Chicago Tribune " The Outsiders transformed young-adult fiction from a genre mostly about prom queens, football players and high school crushes to one that portrayed a darker, truer world." - The New York Times Hinton's classic story of a boy who finds himself on the outskirts of regular society remains as powerful today as it was the day it was first published. The Outsiders is a dramatic and enduring work of fiction that laid the groundwork for the YA genre. At least he knows what to expect-until the night someone takes things too far. And he knows that he can count on his friends-true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on “greasers” like Ponyboy. ![]() ![]() He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. Over 50 years of an iconic classic! This international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie is a heroic story of friendship and belonging. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Authors and critics have expressed their concern about the future of the literary novel. Through language and grammar, the to and fro of sound and silence as Hélène Cixous thinks of it, and in a digressive and circumambulatory manner, this paper probes ‘what to look at’ and ‘how to think’.ĭuring the last decade, the question of the end of the novel has been given new urgency. It begins with the tongue and a drawing of a mother in ICU as referenced in the novel-cum-memoir Bite Your Tongue and ends with photographs of a father's body the day before he dies, which forms part of a ‘mer-mer’ or memoir-in-progress. ‘Parsing an Ethics of Seeing’ posits and presents possible approaches where the form of writing is in keeping with subject matter, in this case, an interrogation of absence and presence as poetic response in concert with what Roland Barthes calls ‘that-has-been’. ![]() In particular, it examines a way of expressing this thinking in terms of grammar and method (syntax, vocabulary, drawing, inventory, cartography), and how the structure or genre of the work emerges from, or out of the act of writing, both critically and creatively. This paper considers the nexus between creative and critical thinking in the making of original work as it relates to what Susan Sontag calls ‘an ethics of seeing’. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s set in the early 60s, in a shabby, crumbling stage school in Covent Garden, full of terrifyingly precocious child actors and inept, downtrodden teachers, all presided over by the infamous Frieda “Freddie” Wentworth. Less so now perhaps, but a book that consistently makes me laugh is Penelope Fitzgerald’s At Freddie’s, a comic masterpiece from 1982 that really should be better known. Books were prized for being shocking or funny or, even better, both, and the promise that a book would make the reader “laugh out loud” seemed entirely plausible. There was Adrian Mole, of course, and Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Monty Python books, Woody Allen’s Without Feathers, Geoffrey Willans’s How to Be Topp, Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall. So many of my early reading memories involve hysterical laughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() To begin our discussion of Purgatorio, we begin by introducing the importance of the theology of Purgatory. the Then of Damnation and the Now of Salvation. ![]() ![]() Cato of Utica, guardian of Purgatory, and the implications of a saved pagan for Virgilio.the one living man who tried to reach Purgatory before Dante: the Ulysses theme carried into Purgatorio 1.this is the place where all souls, preparing for blessedness, are working to become “new” again: innocent as at birth, innocent as the human race in the Garden of Eden.threads of loss are interwoven with threads of beauty to create the new fabric of Purgatorio: the quest for freedom of the will requires setting aside mortal goods, even the most beautiful and worthy.the travelers find themselves on the seashore looking out at a sapphire sea: a world of light and beauty takes the place of the “mar sì crudele” (cruel sea ) on which the poet’s ship has sailed thus far.Dante narrates his version of the “birth of Purgatory” at the end of Inferno 34, verses 112-26, where he connects the formation of the mountain of Purgatory to the fall of Lucifer.21.41-2): the rules and regulations, the “administration” of Purgatory - all are Dante’s to invent “la religïone / de la montagna” ( Purg.Dante enjoys carte blanche to invent his Purgatory: the very idea of Purgatory as a mountain is Dante’s.the theology of Purgatory: relatively unscripted compared to the theology of Hell and the theology of Paradise. ![]() ![]() Vin trains in and works with Kelsier's crew after he prevents Camon from beating her to death, and infiltrates the nobility under the guise of Valette Renoux, eventually helping to save the survivors of the skaa rebellion's army and killing Shan Elariel before fighting the Lord Ruler and killing him. The two lived on the streets and worked in the underground, until eventually coming to work in Camon's crew. She was born to Tevidian Tekiel's skaa mistress in year 1005 FE in Luthadel, and was raised by her half brother Reen after he discovered that their sister had been murdered by their mother. ![]() She later becomes known as Heir to the Survivor, the Ascendant Warrior and the Lady Mistborn, as well as taking on the alias Valette Renoux. ![]() ![]() Vin is a half- skaa Mistborn from the Final Empire on Scadrial. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is tension in this story but this is not a typical courtroom thriller and is all the better for this. As with many of the situations described, the main case is made difficult by the strongly held religious beliefs of the litigants and every reader will have a strong view as to how they see the case should be decided. ![]() Besides dealing with the mind boggling complexity of her daily work, Fiona also has to cope with the news that her husband plans to leave her for a younger woman and her understandable hurt and rage at his betrayal. Many of the situations cited are based on real life cases that most people will know and recognise and the legal arguments used to conclude them are compelling reading. This is a fascinating and realistic story following the life of Fiona, an experienced and mature female judge as she works her way through the moral maze of the family courts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Starring Sherlock Holmes, this tale is based on a real-life ghost story from West Virginia. This audio collection of five diverse and highly entertaining short stories, straight from the ingenious imagination of New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry, includes one story written exclusively for Blackstone Audio. ![]() In the wake of a devastating personal loss, Joe Ledger and his new canine partner, Ghost, go hunting for the world's deadliest assassin. Joe Ledger returns in this tale that follows the tragic conclusion of The Dragon Factory. This short thriller takes Joe Ledger into the mysterious, troubled town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania, the setting for Maberry's chilling Pine Deep Trilogy. Dropping back into the world of former Baltimore cop Joe Ledger, the Department of Military Sciences, and flesh-eating zombies, fans of the series will finally get closure on a few loose ends.īefore former Baltimore cop Joe Ledger goes up against competing geneticists looking to continue the master-race program in The Dragon Factory, he must battle another foe using human test subjects for his sinister plans. "Zero Tolerance" picks up a few weeks after the close of Patient Zero. In this prequel to Patient Zero, meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland Security task force. In this audio collection of five short stories, Jonathan Maberry fills in the blanks in his action-thriller Joe Ledger novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Robert Beaton unexpectedly inherits Chedsy Place, he feels deeply nostalgic for the world of his childhood. Some of these people may be about to break free, others will not, destined to remain in the state in which we first find them. Characters imprisoned in their own lives by the tyranny of those around them or the quirks in their own personality. Chedsy Place has elements of both of those novels, as we find ourselves in the company of some rather unpleasant people – as well as those who are lovely. In her novels The Old Man’s Birthday and Narcissa – particularly the latter – there are some wonderfully monstrous characters, complex relationships and family discord existing within a well ordered, conventional world. What I am finding with Richmal Crompton, who I am finding I very much enjoy – is that, beneath a veneer of cosy, middlebrow domesticity there lurks something rather less comfortable. ![]() Richmal Crompton of course famous for her Just William stories for children, wrote quite a number of novels for adults and this is the fifth of them that I have read. ![]() ![]() Chedsy Place was a marvellously compelling little read, unfortunately the last of the Richmal Crompton novels I had tbr, and I mustn’t buy more just at the moment (I am making an effort to manage my book buying, and so I’m attempting to not buy during January – I am waiting on a couple I ordered at the end of December, and one I have had on pre-order for months). This was my final read of 2017, I never can manage to tidy things up satisfactorily. ![]() |