6/4/2023 0 Comments Kevin hart marcus makes it big![]() In the laugh-out-loud sequel, actor and comedian Kevin Hart delivers a message about being creative, working hard, and learning that sometimes the best dreams are the ones you achieve with your friends. An invite to The Helen Show has Marcus thinking they’ll be back on top, but will nerves, unchecked ambition, and a rivalry between friends shut down this show before it even begins? ![]() Marcus needs to come up with another great idea fast. Too bad his film crew (aka friends) are too preoccupied with their MeTube channels to notice. the Doom, is a HIT! But the only thing harder than making a movie is making a SECOND one. ![]() ![]() “Everybody, grab a ticket and run for a front row seat to Marcus Makes a Movie!” -Judd Winick, New York Times bestselling author of the Hilo series From celebrity author Kevin Hart comes the laugh-out-loud highly illustrated sequel to Marcus Makes a Movie about a young boy who has big Hollywood dreams–and the hustle to make it happen. Marcus Makes It Big - by Kevin Hart 9. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is a book that will live in your heart long after you turn the last page. Survival is one thing, but love―as both will learn―is quite another.īyzantine politics, lush sexual energy, and a queer love story that is by turns sweet and sultry, Foz Meadows’ A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is an exploration of gender, identity, and self-worth. With an unknown faction willing to kill to end their new alliance, Vel and Cae have no choice but to trust each other. But while his family is ready to disown him, the Tithenai envoy has a different solution: for Vel to marry his former intended’s brother instead.Ĭaethari Aeduria always knew he might end up in a political marriage, but his sudden betrothal to a man from Ralia, where such relationships are forbidden, comes as a shock. A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears he’s ruined the diplomatic union before it can even begin. Foz Meadowss A Strange and Stubborn Enduranceis an exploration of gender, identity, and self-worth. Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry at all, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. ![]() “Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.” “Many a reader longing for a sense of homecoming in the realm of romantic fantasy will find it in A Strange and Stubborn Endurance. ![]() ![]() Weirdly, because now that I’m (chronologically) an adult, I should obviously know that parents ALWAYS know what’s going on, even if it doesn’t seem like they are paying attention. There’s this moment of realization toward the end of the book that the mothers know pretty much everything that has happened with the girls over the summer vacation, right down Rose’s new crush. ![]() We could all stand to be a little more attentive to each other. But she also pays such close attention to her surroundings. ![]() Yes, she is good at being quiet and sneaking around to catch pieces of information. Rose’s best quality, and one of the many reasons she’s such a compelling character, is her curiosity, always making observations. This spread really captures the joy of being young, of dancing to your own tune. ![]() I finished this book thinking, she’s going to be such an awesome grown-up someday. The fluid motion of Windy’s dancing just totally filled my heart for some reason. Jillian Tamaki draws such organic and emphatic movement that I feel like these characters are real. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Eleanor oliphant is just fine![]() ![]() I’m sure the training shoes don’t help.Įleanor struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. A lot of unattractive men seem to walk in such a manner, I’ve noticed. He loped off with a strange bouncy walk, springing too hard on the balls of his feet. Her work computer crashes and this is how she meets Raymond Gibbons, a down to earth kind man who smells of cooking and cigarettes. ![]() She has to wait until the Monday to find out more about him as she doesn’t have a computer at home. It’s at a works do that she falls in love from afar with the singer of a band. People talk about how weird she is behind her back. ![]() No one’s been in my flat this year apart from service professionals I’ve not voluntarily invited another human being across the threshold, except to read the meter…It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination.Īt the office where Eleanor has worked in accounts for nine years, she’s an outsider and a bit of joke. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments The power of now author![]() ![]() ![]() is particularly well structured.ĥ – Solid. A helpful and/or enlightening book that stands out by at least one aspect, e.g. contains uncommonly novel ideas and presents them in an engaging manner.Ħ – Notable. A helpful and/or enlightening book that combines two or more noteworthy strengths, e.g. presents the latest findings in a topical field and is written by a renowned expert but lacks a bit in style.ħ – Good. ![]() A helpful and/or enlightening book that has a substantial number of outstanding qualities without excelling across the board, e.g. A helpful and/or enlightening book that is extremely well rounded, has many strengths and no shortcomings worth mentioning.Ĩ – Very good. Often an instant classic and must-read for everyone.ĩ – Superb. A helpful and/or enlightening book that, in addition to meeting the highest standards in all pertinent aspects, stands out even among the best. Here's what the ratings mean:ġ0 – Brilliant. Books we rate below 5 won’t be summarized. Our rating helps you sort the titles on your reading list from solid (5) to brilliant (10). We rate each piece of content on a scale of 1–10 with regard to these two core criteria. Helpful – You’ll take-away practical advice that will help you get better at what you do. Whatever we select for our library has to excel in one or the other of these two core criteria:Įnlightening – You’ll learn things that will inform and improve your decisions. At getAbstract, we summarize books* that help people understand the world and make it better. ![]() 6/3/2023 0 Comments A thousand suns book![]() ![]() Although these characters are fictional, their political and social background stems from reality. Reading her series of tribulations, made me feel helpless in my consistent urge to somehow help her. We are introduced first to Mariam whose childhood is lost in misfortunes in her broken family. We watch both of our protagonists grow up right in front of our eyes, we see their struggle, agony and only keep wishing that it will be better for them someday. Hosseini creates a universe in the novel which fits our Mariam and Laila amidst the political unrest in Afghanistan. The novel keeps shifting brilliantly between the narratives of two women, with whom we spend an entire lifetime. Khaled Hosseini’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, first published in 2007 is one of those novels which will have you live almost a lifetime with them, only in this case, you live two at once. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now a major ITV series, Grace, starring John Simm. Enjoy more of the Brighton detective's investigations with Not Dead Enough and Dead Man's Footsteps. Although the Roy Grace novels can be read in any order, Looking Good Dead is the second gripping title in the bestselling series. But when they plan the murder of the Bryce family, it's not just revenge - it's entertainment. by Peter James RELEASE DATE: March 15, 2007. Everyday low prices and free delivery on. by James, Peter (ISBN: 9781447262497) from Amazons Book Store. Learning that Tom has made a statement to Grace's team, the killers have to act. Buy Looking Good Dead: 2 (Roy Grace) Revised ed. But this attempted act of kindness makes him the sole witness to that same vicious murder. Elsewhere in the city, when Tom Bryce finds a disc left on a train, he simply tries to do the right thing - return it to its owner. When a young woman's body is found butchered in Brighton, Roy Grace cannot help but think of his own missing wife and her unsolved fate. ![]() ![]() Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has to solve a disturbing murder whilst protecting an innocent eye witness in Looking Good Dead, by award winning crime author Peter James. When a young womans body is found butchered in Brighton, Roy Grace cannot help but think of his own missing wife and her unsolved fate. ![]() 6/3/2023 0 Comments Feldman deborah![]() ![]() However, the Netflix series only follows Feldman’s book to a point. She travels to the root of her family's suffering: Berlin, Germany.Įsty's story is based on a real one, recounted in Deborah Feldman's 2012 memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. On Unorthodox, Esty decides to leave the only life she's ever known after a year in an arranged marriage. As a result, Satmar rules are strict, and those in the community are kept from all secular education and culture. ![]() ![]() An ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism, the Satmar group was founded after World War II by Holocaust survivors who believed the Holocaust was punishment for assimilation. The four-episode series follows the character Esther "Esty" Shapiro (played by Shira Haas), a young woman growing up in the Hasidic Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, audiences witness a transformation. In honor of the awards show this Sunday, we're republishing this May 2020 piece about the true story behind the Netflix series. Unorthodox nabbed eight Emmy nominations this year, including Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a limited series for Shira Haas' portrayal of Esther Shapiro, a young woman who escapes her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and flees to Berlin. ![]() 6/3/2023 0 Comments The book written by herodotus![]() The new Egyptian king, Psammetichus, decided to find out what language was the most ancient, and the experiment he conducted involved isolating two newly born children from any language by prohibiting their caretakers from pronouncing any words in their presence as they were growing up. Many other myths are told in Book One, along with accounts from the Persian Empire where Herodotus had traveled.īook Two begins with the conquest of Egypt and a description of an experiment that exemplifies Herodotus’ writing: storytelling instead of merely recording dates and events. Herodotus interprets this well-known story in a more historical vein, eliminating elements of supernatural intervention and making his interpretation closer to history than mythology. In Book One, Herodotus describes the abduction of Helen, wife of the king of Sparta, by Paris, a Trojan prince, causing the Trojan War. It is important to understand that, for the Greeks, myths were not only a part of their religion in the modern sense but also part of their historical heritage in other words, their mythology was in some respects their history. ![]() ![]() ![]() One aspect that might surprise the reader exploring The Histories is that the author dedicates remarkable attention to describing mythological stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are also Recipes from the Seventeenth Century (all but one of them vegan and the one containing eggs easily made vegan) for: Sugared plums, Sugared orange peel, Candied angelica, Marchpane fruits, Frosted rose petals. Also included in the back is a section: Notes on London’s Plague, 1665. ![]() They nicely set up each chapter’s part of the story.Īt the end there is a glossary, which I wish had been at the front of the book, as there were a few words I hadn’t known. There was real suspense the horror really builds and definitely held my attention.Īt the beginning of every chapter, each covering a week’s time, there is a quote, most about the plague, taken from Pepy’s Diary. The narrator, using language appropriate for the era, was a good storyteller, for the most part. Reading about the human suffering was palpable and heartbreaking, and the fate of the animals, was also sad, and infuriating given the ramifications. ![]() I gradually grew to care deeply for the characters. There were particularly good descriptions of what London was like at the time (1665) and what the plague must have been like. I was particularly intrigued with the plague remedies and theories of the time. I do love plague stories, and historical fiction stories, and coming of age stories, and I’m interested in the history of medicine, and there was quite a bit of all of those in this novel. ![]() |