![]() ![]() Grooms vividly evokes these stirring events, as well as Walter’s cruel experiences at the receiving end of police brutality the boy’s cathartic transformation during a particularly brutal assault is especially persuasive. Meanwhile, civil rights marches, boycotts, and protests gather force. Her frustrated husband Carl finds solace in area bars. It seems Clara has adopted a fatalist’s stance toward her cancer-driven, Walter suspects, by her memory of her own father’s senseless death years ago on trumped-up charges of raping a white woman. As children, Walter and his sister Josie share as their most pressing concern the declining health of their mother Clara, who refuses to seek medical assistance. Flashing back, Grooms, an award-winning short-story writer, poet, and essayist, does a lovely job of sketching such timeless aspects of Walter’s and his friend Lamar’s boyhood as their search for specimens to examine under Lamar’s microscope, even as he nails the details of institutionalized racism in the 1960s. Composing a letter to their families turns his thoughts to his turbulent youth in Birmingham, Alabama. Walter Burke trudges toward a village in Vietnam and watches a pair of friends die in a firefight. ![]() An engaging though loosely woven debut about an African-American boy who experiences the death of his mother-and the words of Martin Luther King-in the same year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It combines many of the best elements of some of my favourite movies of all time, like "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Synecdoche, New York" and "The Tree of Life" in its themes of humanity and existentialism, as if all the best aspects of these movies were all rolled into one perfect television series. The show captures all of these themes masterfully in its existentialist representation of humanity and its characters. The show focuses on so many deep and personal themes that I love to find in great works of art, including life, death, depression, anxiety, love, family, meaning and existence. The series across its three amazing seasons, focuses on two main characters: Kevin Garvey (played by Justin Theroux) and Nora Durst (played by Carrie Coon), as they struggle to keep their personal lives together while facing existential devastation at their losses and the world around them. The Leftovers is a deep and profound series focusing on a global cataclysmic tragedy where 2% of the world's entire population vanish without a trace, leaving the rest of the world in complete and utter devastation. I love existentialist works of art that meditate issues such as life and death, and The Leftovers is no exception. I may have a huge love for other shows such as The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Fargo and Twin Peaks, but with great works of art, I look for intellectual and philosophical depth and stimulation to keep myself thinking. ![]() In my opinion, HBO's "The Leftovers" is the greatest television series ever created. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rumors swirl in the village about the abbey's previous owners, about ghosts and curses, and an enigmatic manuscript at the center of it all. And she senses something else in the library too, a presence that seems to have a will of its own. Despite cryptic warnings from the staff, Ivy feels irresistibly drawn to its dusty shelves, where familiar works mingle with strange, esoteric texts. But there is a treasure waiting behind locked doors: a magnificent library. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. In post – World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets. "Weaves a spell of darkness that's mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love." - New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches ![]() ![]() * Includes a miscellany of facts including magic spells, rituals, potions, recipes, celebrations, traditions, and much more. * Meet mythic witches, modern witches, sacred goddess witches, even demon witches, male and female witches, witches from all over the globe. As with Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells, this book's focus will be cross-cultural and will span the centuries right up to the present day and popular culture. Wicca will be discussed, but the focus will not to limited to Wicca. ![]() Contents: * Judika Illes explores the history, folklore, spirituality, and mythology of witchcraft. ![]() ![]() This is the definitive celebration and exploration of all facets of witchcraft, serving as a complete reference book but also as a source of entertainment and general interest. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was present when slavery was declared no more. ![]() July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. ![]() 'A marvel of luminous storytelling' Financial Times A Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel of the last days of slavery in Jamaica, for those who loved Homegoing, The Underground Railroad, or the film 12 Years a Slave. Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell. ![]() ![]() ![]() This guide refers to the Macmillan ebook edition and contains discussion of suicide. In 2002, it was adapted into an eponymous Oscar-winning film starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Julianne Moore. In 1999, The Hours won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. As the historical Woolf did, Cunningham explores themes of marginalized sexual orientations, mental illness, suicide, and existential crisis. ![]() Dalloway and Clarissa Vaughan, a 52-year-old publisher in 1990s New York City who yearns for a relationship like Woolf and her husband had. ![]() Dalloway over the course of one June day in each of their lives: a fictional Virginia Woolf in the suburbs of London as she starts her novel in 1923 a housewife Laura Brown in 1949 Los Angeles who escapes her unhappy life by reading Mrs. The story follows three different women, in three different decades, affected by Mrs. Mimicking Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness narrative style, Cunningham re-situates her characters and themes within a modern context, making them his own. Dalloway (of which the working title was “The Hours”). It is an homage to Virginia Woolf’s 1923 novel Mrs. The Hours is a 1998 novel by the American author Michael Cunningham. ![]() ![]() ![]() She wrestles with moral issues at an extreme level: obviously, the cruel discipline and mutilation that orogenes are subjected to violate all standards of decency, and not only is it evil, it’s simply the height of idiocy to exterminate the only people capable of calming a constantly tumultuous landscape. Jemisin continues to break the heart with her sensitive, cleareyed depictions of a beyond-dysfunctional family and the extraordinarily destructive force that is prejudice. Threaded throughout is the story of the stone eater Hoa, who explains his origins from several millennia earlier and how his own struggle to gain his freedom led to the Earth losing the Moon in the first place. Meanwhile, her estranged daughter, Nassun, has her own plan to take the Gate for herself and use it to destroy the humans who have responded viciously to the earth shaking and earth-quelling powers of her orogene brethren. Slowly turning to stone as a result of her contact with the Obelisk Gate, Essun nevertheless must repeat that contact to magically grab the long-lost Moon, assuaging the anger of the Earth and ending the devastating Seasons that rock the planet. ![]() Jemisin concludes her Broken Earth trilogy ( The Obelisk Gate, 2016, etc.), about a vengeful Earth whose tectonic instability can be controlled by the despised and feared orogenes. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Even though Duras’ novel was written in 1953, the way she portrays the complexities of these relationships is very modern and universal,” said Berdugo, who is participating in the MIA Market in Rome. “‘Azuro’ is a sensual and suspenseful film dealing with love, friendship, and the attraction, temptations and difficulties that couples face,” said Berdugo, an industry veteran who previously presided over the banner Roissy Films for more than 15 years before selling to EuropaCorp in 2008. ![]() ![]() The cast is headlined by Valerie Donzelli, the helmer-actor of “Declaration of War,” Nuno Lopez (“An Easy Girl”), Florence Loiret-Caille (“The Bureau”), Thomas Scimeca, Maya Sansa and Laetitia Dosch.Ĭité Films, a film company founded in 1997 and run by Berdugo, is co-producing and handling international sales on “Azuro.” ![]() ![]() ![]() According to publisher's records, 940 copies were thus blocked, a larger number than had previously been thought (though still a tiny proportion of the 82,000 copies of the first edition printed). The decision to cease stamping a golden gun was purely economical." - Gilbert (Ian Fleming Bibliography). the original estimate allowed for just four and a half square inches of foil-stamping. "According to the publisher's book production files. A decision was made, very early in the process, that to block the whole print run with such a large expanse of foil, would be financially prohibitive. All Fleming's previous novels have a decorated front board, and it was the publisher's intention to do the same with this book. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, with just the slightest wear to a couple of corners. First edition, first state binding with the publisher's golden gun embossed on the front panel, in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Chopping. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() more t was also about Kendall's struggle between her movie star life and her normal life. ![]() Review 2: This book was A-MA-ZING!!!! (CAUTION: MAY CONTAIN MINOR SPOILERS!!!)Ok first, I want to let out a really huge *SQUEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAL*The fluff in this book was SO MUCH! EVEN BEFORE THEY BECAME A COUPLE *fangirl scream*Yes, this book does mostly revolve around Payton being gay and Kendall questioning her sexuality. Talks about friendship, support, believe in yourself, be afraid of who you are, acceptation and the list goes on goes. It's well writing, easy to read and I most important thing for me it's that the author didn't random in another subject, I mean some author put so many word in between the main story that gets sometimes boring, but this one was very pleasure to read. ![]() |