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Where dreams descend series6/26/2023 ![]() The Magician: Demarco, the brooding judge with a dark past he can no longer hide The Master: Jack, the enigmatic keeper of the club, and more than one lie told The Star: Kallia, a powerful showgirl out to prove she’s the best no matter the cost In a city covered in ice and ruin, a group of magicians face off in a daring game of magical feats to find the next headliner of the Conquering Circus, only to find themselves under the threat of an unseen danger striking behind the scenes.Īs each act becomes more and more risky and the number of missing magicians piles up, three are forced to reckon with their secrets before the darkness comes for them next. ![]() Fans of Caraval and The Night Circus will be delighted!” – Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn ![]() “Vibrant imagery, jaw-dropping set pieces, sizzling romantic tension, and unstoppable heroine Kallia bring this ambitious debut novel to spectacular life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Though he was not of direct royal birth he was still part of the family. The English witans chose Harold "who had carried most of the burden of government for the past ten years" (p. The reason behind the battle was a dispute over who was the rightful king of England after Edward's death early in the year. ![]() The book begins and ends with a look at a small village and the inhabitant's way of life to show the enormous change that took place in the span of one fateful year. This unique and unbiased view is a key tool in understanding how and why the events came to be. The author looks at the events leading up to and after the battle in the eyes of all parties involved and the people affected. In the historical novel 1066, David Howarth analyses the events of the Battle of Hastings by examining the events of the year. ![]()
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The heart of redness by zakes mda6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Although he spent his early childhood in Soweto (where he knew political figures such as Walter and Albertina Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela) he had to finish his education in Lesotho where his father went into exile since 1963. It is, arguably, the first great novel of the new South Africa - a triumph of imaginative and historical writing. Zakes Mda is the pen name of Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, a novelist, poet and playwright. ![]() The Heart of Redness is a seamless weave of history, myth, and realist fiction. One hundred fifty years later, the two groups' decendants are at odds over plans to build a vast casino and tourist resort in the village, and Camugu is soon drawn into their heritage and their future - and into a bizarre love triangle as well. The failed prophecy split the Xhosa into Believers and Unbelievers, dividing brother from brother, wife from husband, with devastating consequences. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops, promising that once they did so the spirits of their ancestors would rise and drive the occupying English into the ocean. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy, he follows his "famous lust" to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. The result is a novel of great scope and deep human feeling, of passion and reconciliation.Īs the novel opens Camugu, who left for America during apartheid, has returned to Johannesburg. ![]() In The Heart of Redness - shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize - Zakes Mda sets a story of South African village life against a notorious episode from the country's past. ![]() A startling novel by the leading writer of the new South Africa ![]()
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Bloodline jess lourey book review6/25/2023 ![]() She’s forced to move to a strange town to live with a mother she barely knows. She’s unexpectedly lost her father, the man who’s been raising her for years. Your protagonist Frankie Jubilee relocates from Pasadena to rural Minnesota at age 14 following the death of her father. Jess took time out from her busy launch schedule recently to speak with me about the emotional landscape of teenage life, our shared interest in Minnesota, and her knack for building menace into scenes. When a bullying gang of girls invites Frankie to The Game, she accepts, determined to find out what’s really going on in paranoia-prone Litani. ![]() From the start, Frankie senses something uneasy going on in the small town. In the summer of 1984, fourteen-year-old Frankie Jubilee, the protagonist of this gripping story, is shuttled off to Litani, Minnesota, to live with her estranged mother, a county prosecutor she barely knows. Litani, the newest release from acclaimed crime novelist Jess Lourey, explores the darkness at the heart of the rural Midwest in a novel inspired by a chilling true crime. ![]()
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Collected shakespeare6/25/2023 ![]() The attractive covers are embossed with colourful foils and the books have many special details including decorative endpapers, gilded edges, and ribbon markers. This volume also features Shakespeare's complete poetry, including the sonnets. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare collects all 37 of the immortal Bard's comedies, tragedies, and historical plays in a beautiful edition. ![]() ![]() Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear - lovers of literature will immediately recognise these as signature works of William Shakespeare, whose plays still rank as the greatest dramas ever produced in the English language four centuries after they were written. ![]()
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The bridge to terabithia novel6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Although he acts harshly towards her in their initial contact, believing he doesn’t need any more girls in his life, they become quick friends. While running one morning, Jess is approached by a girl from a family who had recently moved in. It helps him train to be the fastest kid in the fifth grade. Both make him feel free from all the troubles that are hurled towards him every day. Jess can only escape through two things - drawing and running. This leaves Jess at the mercy of his mother and four sisters. His father works through most days, and when he’s not working, he’s resting so that he can go back to work. It follows Jess, a boy about to enter fifth grade, and his struggles living in a house full of women. The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson may be kept in the children’s section of the NASH Library, but everyone can read and appreciate its message all the same. She proceeded to guide me over to the children’s section, where I quickly found it. Wienand because I was sure we had the book in the library. I spent 5 minutes scanning the shelves for Katherine Paterson’s name, but all I could find were all those Maximum Ride books by James Patterson. ![]() So, when April finally rolled around, I headed to the library in search of this month’s book. I remember watching the movie probably about a decade ago, and it always struck a chord with me. When I saw The Bridge to Terabithia on lists of banned books, I figured I had to read it. ![]()
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The shape of water book camilleri6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Large passages of the text are just dialogue between two characters, with only a large section of description at the beginning and the end of the exchange. It is quite easy to see the similarities because, as we talked about at the book club, he novel was very script like. ![]() The TV series is fairly true to the books, the episode based on ‘The shape of water’ only added a small subplot about Montalbano’s father, but other than this was virtually the same. The novels have been called the most successful series in Italy, thanks in no small part to the television adaptation. Our first book was ‘The shape of water’ by Andrea Camilleri, it is the first of 23 detective novels in the inspector Montalbano series and an intriguing mystery. ![]() We had a riveting discussion with a lot of different views shared on what happened in the novel. On the 11 th of November we had our first meeting. ![]()
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Think and grow6/24/2023 ![]() Hill writes that Edwin Barnes, a man who had an immense desire to partner and work with the famous inventor, Thomas Edison. ![]() ![]() In this first chapter, Hill demonstrates the power of your thought and how it has the power to shape your life. And today, we will talk about the summary of these 13 principles from the book for those who do not have the time to go through the book but want to benefit from the amazing principles shared by Hill. There are 13 principles shared by Napoleon Hill in the book. ![]() Not only did this book become the best-seller in personal development books of all time, the book also went on to inspire many other successful people including Tony Robbins, John Maxwell, Brian Tracy, Bob Proctor, and many others, and is highly recommended by them. And the result was this book, Think and Grow Rich. When he received the assignment to interview Andrew Carnegie, one the richest and influential men at that time, Carnegie challenged Hill to interview other wealthy and successful people to discover a simple formula for success. Napoleon Hill was known for his principles to improving one’s life. ![]() Chapter 15: How to Outwit the Six Ghosts of Fear.Chapter 11: The Mystery of Sex Transmutation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The 12 central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity her old friend, Shirley, is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's funding-deprived schools Carole, one of Shirley's former students, is a successful investment banker Carole's mother, Bummi, works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter's lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, Girl, Woman, Other paints a vivid portrait of the state of post-Brexit Britain, as well as looking back to the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of black British women. ![]()
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The land of stories the wishing spell6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2021, in an Entertainment Weekly interview, Colfer confirmed that the film had been cancelled as well as that he was searching for another home for the series. Later on, the pandemic had began which further delayed production of the movie. ĭisney later bought the rights to 20th Century Fox along with all its subsidiaries which put the movie on hold for quite a while. ![]() In 2017, Chris Colfer announced that there would be a film adaptation of the first book in his The Land of Stories series in production at 20th Century Fox. Read reviews and buy The Land of Stories: the Wishing Spell ( Land of Stories) (Paperback) - by Chris Colfer at Target. In the past, more specifically 2015, Colfer had hinted that he wanted unknown actors for the parts of Alex and Conner Bailey, however a cast was never formed in 2017 or in later years. The Wishing Spell is a cancelled live-action adaption of The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell formerly in production at 20th Century Fox and 21 Laps Entertainment.Ĭhris Colfer was set to not only write the script adapting the first book in The New York Times bestselling series, The Land of Stories, but he was also set to make his directorial debut with the project. ![]() |