Currently she is a producer on Netflix’s popular ongoing series, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.ĭonna is also the author of four highly acclaimed historical novels from Penguin New American Library (The Turncoat, The Rebel Pirate, Mistress Firebrand, and The Dutch Girl) and four bestselling urban fantasy novels from Pocket Star (Cold Iron, Silver Skin, Stone Song, and Blade Dance), writing as DL McDermott. Her television credits include the Disney XD animated series, Tron: Uprising WGN’s Salem and Hallmark’s The Good Witch. The director of several award-winning short films, including The Night Caller, which aired on PBS and was featured on Ain’t It Cool News, Donna has been a sorority house mother, a Disney/ABC Television Writing Fellow, and a WGA Writer’s Access Project Honoree. She later earned an MFA in film production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. For a number of years she managed architecture and interpretation at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, and wrote and directed the Witch City’s most popular Halloween theater festival, Eerie Events. A native of Bergenfield, New Jersey, Donna graduated from Yale with a degree in Classics and Art History.
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Each believed the other to be something truly monstrous, but only one carries the secret that would haunt the generations to come. As Margot and Piper investigate, a cleverly woven plot unfolds-revealing the story of Sylvie and Rose, two other sisters who lived at the motel during its 1950s heyday. Suddenly, Margot and Piper are forced to relive the time that they found the suitcase that once belonged to Silvie Slater, the aunt that Amy claimed had run away to Hollywood to live out her dream of becoming Hitchcock's next blonde bombshell leading lady. Now adult, Piper and Margot have tried to forget what they found that fateful summer, but their lives are upended when Piper receives a panicked midnight call from Margot, with news of a horrific crime for which Amy stands accused. The three played there as girls until the day that their games uncovered something dark and twisted in the motel's past, something that ruined their friendship forever. Once the thriving attraction of rural Vermont, the Tower Motel now stands in disrepair, alive only in the memories of Amy, Piper, and Piper's kid sister, Margot. The latest novel from New York Times best-selling author Jennifer McMahon is an atmospheric, gripping, and suspenseful tale that probes the bond between sisters and the peril of keeping secrets. /rebates/2fThe-Night-Sister-Jennifer-McMahon2fbook2f31480960&. The main character Kara sets off on adventures and of course, takes a big. For fans searching for more books like the Magic Tree House series, Anna Staniszewski’s Once Upon a Fairy Tale series may provide some much needed magic and mystery. Their adventures take them to meet a ninja master in ancient Japan, flee a crocodile on the Amazon River, discover the cave people of the Ice Age, and blast off to the moon in the future. Jack and Annie are ready for their next adventure in the New York Times bestselling middle-grade seriesthe Magic Tree House Time-traveling brother-and-sister team Jack and Annie have to find a certain kind of foodthe fourth thing needed to save Merlin’s beloved penguin, Penny. The Magic Mirror (Once Upon a Fairy Tale 1) by Anna Staniszewski and Illustrated by Macky Pamintuan. In books 5-8, Jack and Annie's friend, Morgan le Fay, is in trouble! They must find four "M" things to free her from a spell. In books 1-4, Jack and Annie are whisked back in time to the Age of Dinosaurs, a medieval castle, ancient pyramids, and treasure-seeking pirates. But when they discover a tree house in the woods, something magical happens. Jack and his younger sister, Annie, are just regular kids. A3GYLNAQLIGR Doc // Magic Tree House 4: Pirates Treasure (Paperback) Magic Tree House 4: Pirates Treasure (Paperback) Filesize: 9.67 MB Reviews This. Yoto says: Discover the wonder of the Magic Tree House with Jack and Annie in this collection of eight audiobooks from of the best-selling series! After their parents remarry, two step-sisters, one a girl and one a wolf, develop a dangerously close bond. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirls following their tour turn into something monstrous. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates'. As urban dwellers' sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan's shadow, a city turns insomniac. In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women's experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. "Artistic and perceptive, Armfield's debut explores the ebbs and flows of human connection in lives touched by the bizarre." - Kirkusįrom White Review Short Story Prize winner Julia Armfield, a brilliant, provocative debut story collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link. One group of Unkin see themselves as Angels, and have set up a Covenant promising to reject any ancient deity looking to regain his or her past glory they are at the time of the narration getting ready for a final war. It can be reprogrammed using something called the Cant, and this is what some deities from ancient myths, called the Unkin, have done. The Vellum is a reality of which Earth is only a small part. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Pan Macmillan in August 2005 and then, in April 2006, in the USA by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House. Vellum: The Book of All Hours is a speculative fiction novel by Hal Duncan. is produced to feed animals raised in CAFOs. Nearly 50% of corn and 70% of soy grown in the U.S.In the U.S., animals on CAFOs produce an estimated 885 billion pounds of manure each year, none of which is treated or regulated by a government agency.While much discussion is devoted to methane from cows, the massive feed-crop production and manure associated with all CAFOs-cattle, pork and poultry-are significant contributors to air and water pollution as well as climate-warming emissions. Globally, animal agriculture represents 14.5% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to causing immense animal suffering, raising this many animals in these conditions does enormous environmental damage. Each CAFO may hold tens or even hundreds of thousands of animals sealed inside in extremely crowded conditions. These animals are overwhelmingly raised on what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the agriculture industry call Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). At any given moment, there are over 1.6 billion chickens, pigs, cows and other animals being raised for food across the United States, and over 10 billion farm animals are slaughtered annually. I went into this not expecting much but I kind of enjoyed it, even considering how short it was. It sounded like he hadn't had any lovers in months. He was also a workaholic so he preferred taking care of his sexual pleasure himself than casual sex. H was selective with his choice of lovers over the years after some ONS experiences in college left him dissatisfied overall. Virgin h shared some kisses with boys back in high school but didn't feel any real attachments to any of them. Lacked the humor & emotional pull of Unmasking the Billionaire. She repeatedly kept pushing H away because she was scared to be so emotionally attached to a man like her mom was who committed suicide within the last year because her BF cheated on her. This h just seemed too cold for my liking. She lacked the charm & down-to-earth likability of the h from Unmasking the Billionaire. Loved his determination that she's “it” for him & wasn't waylaid by her resistances to their developing romance since he could tell that she was mutually attracted to him.ĭidn't care for 19yo virgin receptionist h's overall standoffish-ness. Liked 31yo surgeon H's OTT obssessive-stalkery insta-love for h & his possessive-claimy “mine” with h. Straightforward writing that can say much in 50 pages. Then, six years ago, the company collapsed like a soufflé, following a Wall Street Journal exposé by the reporter John Carreyrou, who wrote that the company’s supposedly revolutionary technology-a proprietary lab machine that could run hundreds of medical tests using mere drops of blood drawn from a finger prick-was not at all what Theranos claimed it to be.Ĭarreyrou’s explosive reporting became the basis for a 2018 book, “ Bad Blood,” which tracks the rise and fall of Theranos, from Holmes’s founding of the company as a nineteen-year-old Stanford dropout through her fall from grace. It employed upward of seven hundred people and had a board of directors stacked with the likes of Henry Kissinger and James Mattis. Theranos was once valued at more than nine billion dollars. of the now defunct medical-testing tech startup Theranos, began on August 31st, three years after Holmes’s indictment on numerous counts of fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The federal trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former C.E.O. Speaking of Christopher’s anxieties, I have to share this bit that seems to me such a good example of Wynne Jones’s perspicacity: Christopher’s anxieties ring true, as does his fascination with cricket, or the way he wants to please his uncle-the one adult who takes an interest in him, or the way his conscience pricks him about not fulfilling his bargain with the goddess. Part of it is that reading her stories feels like I’m watching a play-so vivid are her characters, and the world she conjures that I’m plunged into her universe straightaway. So, I’m trying to figure out why I enjoy reading Diana Wynne Jones so much. The way to reach these worlds is through the appropriately named The Place Between, also known as The World Edge which is “like a leftover piece of world.” As gets revealed in this book, there are 12 series of worlds in the Chrestomanci series. Plus, the world building is much bigger in scope. Literally. I agree with Jenny- The Lives of Christopher Chant is waaayyy more fun than Charmed Life. It has tons more plot, and the almost constant presence of a kick-ass goddess (who seems to be Indian from the sounds of it!) forms a nice counterweight to the boy magician. There are complications as to which of Neville’s wives is to inherit. There is also Lady Tressilion’s companion who will benefit from the will. There is also a man about town infatuated with Kay (Paul Nichols). Those who are under suspicion include Neville’s two wives, K (Zoe Tapper) and Audrey (Saffron Burrows). The initial suspicion goes on to Neville but, eventually, he provides alibis. The initial focus of the film is on Neville, Greg Wise, playing tennis at Wimbledon, gentlemanly, but gruff with his second wife, making plans to invite his former wife to the family home, which is presided over by the highly critical and crotchety lady Tressilion, Eileen Atkins at her typical and best. At the opening of this film, she is in discussion with the doctor who has a theory that murders are a culmination of a process, a process towards zero. Geraldine McEwan, Greg Wise, Eileen Atkins, Julian Sands, Zoe Tapper, Paul Nichols, Saffron Burrows, Julie Graham, Tom Baker, Alan Davies.ĭirected by David Grindley (and Nicholas Winding Refn)Ī popular Miss Marple story, this film featuring Geraldine McEwan as Jane Marple, her performance is quietly sweet, gentle, even fey, always observing, always searching, formulating theories. Peter Malone's Film Reviews and Resources.Michael Fallon Books and Audio-visual Resources.Heart of Life Centre for Spiritual and Pastoral Formation.St Mary's Towers Retreat Centre, Douglas Park NSW.Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. |