7/8/2023 0 Comments Hana lauren oliver![]() ![]() Her journey from teenage runaway to prisoner of the state is a taut, gripping narrative that expands the Delirium world and illuminates events-and Lena-through a new point of view. ![]() Lena's mother, Annabel, has always been a mystery-a ghost from Lena's past-until now. Set during the tumultuous summer before Lena and Hana are supposed to be cured, this story is a poignant and revealing look at a moment when the girls' paths diverge and their futures are altered forever. Hana is told through the perspective of Lena's best friend, Hana Tate. This collection also includes an excerpt from Requiem, the final novel in Oliver's New York Times bestselling series. Originally published as digital novellas, Hana, Annabel, and Raven each center around a fascinating and complex character who adds important information to the series and gives it greater depth. ![]() Description: For the first time, Lauren Oliver's short stories about characters in the Delirium world appear in print. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Wiseguy de nicholas pileggi![]() ![]() The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news although Roger Friedman of Showbiz 411 had details on the project last month. Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hillthe working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that to be a wiseguy was to own the world, who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s lifehas been hailed as the best book ever written on organized crime. Irwin Winkler, a producer on “Rocky” and “Goodfellas,” will serve as a producer on “Wise Guys.” ![]() He’s re-teaming with Scorsese on Apple’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” a Western crime drama about the 1920 Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation. Conway (Academy Award winner Robert De Niro) in this searing, epic crime drama based on the chilling true-life best seller Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi. Along with “Goodfellas,” the actor made a name for himself in crime dramas like “The Godfather Part II,” “Mean Streets” and “Casino.” His more recent credits include “Joker” and Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” which used extensive digital technology to de-age De Niro and his co-stars Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. Nicholas Pileggi, the co-writer of Martin Scorsese’s crime epic “Goodfellas,” which starred De Niro, is penning the screenplay for “Wise Guys.” (“Goodfellas” is based on Pileggi’s 1985 book “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family,” though it’s unrelated to Levinson’s film.)įor De Niro, “Wise Guys” is a return to the genre that turned him into a star. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The strange library haruki![]() ![]() Yet, in that novel I found a beautiful tale that was mysterious and moving, if not quite as surreal or witty as Murakami’s earlier endeavors. I picked up Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage with some uncertainty after having read a review here at PopMatters. True, Kafka on the Shore seemed to lack affect, and when IQ84 started to feel more like a test of endurance than a literary sojourn, I put it down. Like many, I first fell in love with Murakami’s work when reading novels such as Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and I can remember embarrassing myself more than once laughing out loud while reading A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance in the coffee shop of my local bookstore. Besides, in the case of Haruki Murakami, I hardly felt like I needed an introduction. I like to come to terms with a book’s themes and techniques on my own, without someone else pointing the way. For better or for worse, I rarely bother reading the publisher’s introduction that sometimes accompanies a review copy of a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Team Boss, Jim Salemi seconds the apparel style and said, “In the off season I started my mission to expert marksmanship alongside Melanie who has been using sharp shooting techniques to work on her reaction times. First and foremost is the collection of leopard print gun holsters and secondly their multi pocket leather gun toting vests. ![]() Steady’s main goal in 2023 is promote their vast lines of apparel. Steady Eddie’s also carry’s ammo, shooting range supplies, and the finest bandana face coverings in the world for that easy get away”. We want to be able to promote our vast inventory ranging from Water Pistols to Uzi’s. We are looking to expand into new markets and with Melanie and her team we can accomplish just that. Decapitono states, “Teaming up with the Salemi’s for 2023 really was a no brainer. Steady Eddie’s based in the small-town Los Ybanez, Texas and owned by Edwardo Decapitono. Buffalo, NY – Melanie Salemi and her Buffalo, NY based Pro Modified team have sealed the deal with ‘Steady Eddie’s Gun Shop and Emporium’. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Aristocrats by Stella Tillyard![]() ![]() Divided into themed chapters: Beginnings and Marriages Town Life Country Life Travel and Endings, Aristocrats is gorgeously illustrated with informatively captioned paintings, photos of artefacts and stills from the television series. Stella Tillyard's completely new text (the series Aristocrats is based on her highly acclaimed book of the same name), breathes intelligence and accessibility. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs Colour Plates Black & White Plates From the cover: “Alive with the details of upper-class life in the 1700s, and sparkling with extracts from the letters of Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox and their offspring, Aristocrats: The Illustrated Companion to the Television Series takes the reader on a Grand Tour of their 18th-century experience. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Dustwrapper a little rubbed at the edges with a stain on the reverse at the foot of the upper panel. ![]() Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1750-1832 - Stella TillyardLondon: Chatto & Windus, 1994, Hardback in Dust Wrapper.Ĭondition: Good+ - in Good+ Dustwrapper. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Abbi glines jax and sadie![]() When I first got introduced to the world of the Kindle, I was amazed at how many new authors and books had been opened up to me. Relationships never work in his world and as badly as he wants Sadie, he believes she deserves more.īut by the end of the summer, Jax discovers he can't breathe without Sadie. Everything about Sadie fascinates Jax, but he fights his attraction. ![]() If Sadie hadn't spent her life raising her mother and taking care of the house she might have been normal enough to be excited about working for a rock star.Įven though Sadie isn't impressed by Jax's fame, he is drawn to her. When the family arrives at their summer getaway, Sadie is suprised to learn that the owner of the house is Jax Stone, one of the hottest teen rockers in the world. ![]() With her single mothers increasing pregnancy and refusal to work, Sadie has to take over her mother's job as a domestic servant for one of the wealthy summer families on a nearby island. ![]() Sadie White's job isn't going to be on the beach life-guarding or working at rental booths like most kids her age. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Tracy Tam by Krystalyn Drown![]() ![]() For several long minutes, the shield quivered, but it held. Branches and dry leaves blasted against it. Baseball sized rocks hammered their shield. The fireballs rushed through the forest, ripping it to shreds. ![]() On the other side, time seemed frozen, but then it popped into fast forward. ![]() Jared plugged his ears and closed his eyes, Chris rested on the ground with his back against the sleigh, but Tracy crouched behind the sleigh and watched it all.īalls of fire rocketed from the bag and punched through the time wall, shattering it into a billion pieces. For extra protection, Chris wiggled his fingers and put up his own wall of magic on the other side of the sleigh, shielding them and the reindeer. Tracy, Jared, and Chris dove for cover behind the sleigh. The contents inside turned red with fury. The bag pulsed as the magic inside it heated up and expanded. If it sizzled a plastic bag, she didn't want to see what it did to a boy. That was why she didn't want Jared touching it. Streaks of lightning scattered along the wall's surface away from the bag. The plastic bag stuck to the wall, sparking and hissing like a sparkler on the Fourth of July. ![]() ![]() Gladwell examines the press play in basketball matches and demonstrates how Davids how beat Goliaths by being more determined, willing to do the hard work and thinking differently. “the powerful and strong are not always what they seem” “There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there are a set that have to do with the absence of material resources.” Knowing how to identify that weakness to your advantage is how you become David. Gladwell proposes that what gives a giant its strength can also be its greatest weakness. But as you read on you find it is also a basketball team, an education model, impressionist painting, the ability to read, experiencing the death of a parent before the age of 15, power to name a few. Giants can be such things as a disability, misfortune or oppression. ![]() Gladwell opens with a re-telling of the classic story of David and Goliath and then goes onto to explain all of the historical inaccuracies in the tale and how this has shaped our understanding of what it takes to beat a giant. ![]() ![]() Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Spartacus by Ben Kane![]() Jealous of his attachment to Ariadne, a Dionysian priestess, the Thracian king betrays Spartacus to the Romans who take him, along with Ariadne, into captivity and to the school of gladiators at Capua.Īgainst the background of the unbelievable brutality of gladiatorial life, Spartacus and Crixus the Gaul plan the audacious overthrow of their Roman masters. Now bestselling historical novelist Ben Kane returns to the source material and presents a lively and compelling new vision of the man who was Spartacus - Roman army auxillary, slave, gladiator and ultimately the leader of an army of slaves who nearly brought Rome to its knees.īen Kane's brilliant novel begins in the Thracian village to which Spartacus has returned after escaping from life as an auxiliary in the Roman army. Long the stuff of legends, Spartacus is known to most modern readers through the classic Kubrick film version of Howard Fast's novel. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments American diplomacy kennan![]() He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. ![]() OL1365762W Page_number_confidence 90.31 Pages 198 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20191120191718 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 661 Scandate 20191119040052 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780226431475 Tts_version 3. George Frost Kennan (Febru March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. American diplomacy, 1900-1950 Boxid IA1698120 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 02:13:24 Associated-names Kennan, George F. ![]() |