![]() ![]() And when the truth comes into focus, neither is prepared for the secrets the other is hiding. Nor can he escape the truth of who he is, and the fact that he’s in love with his out-and-proud travel companion.Īdmitting what he wants could hurt his mother’s conservative political career. But with every click of his shutter and every sprinkle of ash, Justin can’t resist Landry’s pull. Eventually he’ll have to return home and join his mother’s Senate campaign. And there’s no one Justin would rather share the experience with more than Landry.īut Justin knows he can’t escape forever. Climbing into the Winnebago his father left him, they set out across America in search of the sites his father had captured through the lens of his Nikon.Īs an aspiring photographer, Justin can think of no better way to honor his father’s memory than to scatter his ashes at the sites he held sacred. With his college graduation gown expertly pitched into the trash, Justin Akron is ready for the road trip he planned with his best friend Landry- and ready for one last summer of escape from his mother’s controlling grip. ![]() ![]() From the author of Make it Count comes the first novel in the In Focus series… ![]()
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![]() This is where scouts should come in, Lewis argued. In this same chapter, however, he points out that a basketball player who looks great numbers-wise may have a marijuana habit that threatens his performance, and a top college prospect's surprisingly terrible season may be explained by a spiteful relationship with his coach. ![]() Brad Pitt as Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane consults with Jonah Hill as his assistant Peter Brand in the 2011 film "Moneyball."Īs Lewis explains in the first chapter of "The Undoing Project," scouts simply doing their jobs can get in the way of an analytics approach taken by the front office. ![]() ![]() We are left with the conclusion that women need to be assertive about what they want and shouldn't settle for anything less. Written in 1966, this novel by one of Brazil's most celebrated authors, Jorge Amado, shows his empathy with a woman's lot in life by examining the imbalance between the sexes. ![]() She struggles with her conscience as Vadinho makes clear he wants her to cheat on Teodoro. ![]() Teodoro is well-meaning but essentially dull and no match for the shy but passionate Flor.įlor ambles along in her comfortable but tedious existence but her life is turned upside down when the gods conjure up the one thing she craves: her dead husband. At the prompting of her mother Rozkilda (Montserrat Gili, who is also executive producer), she remarries a tall, dark and balding local doctor Teodoro (James G Bellorini). Mark O'Thomas's adaptation of Jorge Amado's novel tells the story of the young Dona Flor (played by Mariana Whitehouse) whose philandering first husband Vadinho (Luciano Gatti) dies of a heart attack, leaving her a heartbroken widow. You can have both, but only if one of them is dead. ![]() Literature presents us women with an infernal dilemma: should we go for a sensible, well-off man with no sex appeal or a red-hot Casanova who has a sideline as a layabout philanderer? (For some reason men are usually consigned to one category or the other, with little scope for manoeuvre).ĭona Flor and her Two Husbands presents a novel solution. ![]() ![]() He is the Founder Chairman of Nexus of Good: an initiative towards recognising positive action and providing inspiration to society to replicate them. Noteworthy among them were being nominated as one of the Policy Change Agents by The Economic Times during 2010, 2012, 20, and being selected as one of the 35 Action Heroes in India Today’s 35th Annual Edition. ![]() He won the Director’s Gold Medal for the best Officer Trainee at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration amongst the officers of his batch.įor 38 years, he attempted to ‘make things happen’ as a civil servant. He started his career in the Indian Police Service but joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) a year later, in 1981. ![]() He was also awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal for being the Best All-Round Student. ![]() Born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Anil Swarup earned his Master’s Degree in 1978 in Political Science from Allahabad University. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the best McKinley fashion, the fantasy realm is evoked in thorough and telling detail, with the energy of the narrative lending excitement to descriptions of even the most stylized rituals. Mirasol and the new Master are drawn to each other, even though she suspects their union is prohibited, and their smoldering attraction-plus the gorgeously evoked magic and the escalating threat that Willowlands will be usurped-gives this tale its sizzle. ![]() delirious as a child with a bad fever.” Hope flickers when the former Master’s brother returns and assumes the role but because he is now an Elemental priest of Fire, he may not be able to perform the duties. She is keenly aware of the suffering brought on by the misrule of its former Master: “ Willowlands was restless, hurt and unhappy. Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares que son necesarias para permitirte comprar, mejorar tus experiencias de compra y proporcionar nuestros servicios, según se detalla en nuestro Aviso de cookies. ![]() Humble beekeeper Mirasol has been chosen to take on the key ceremonial role of Chalice, the woman charged with maintaining the province’s well-being by communicating with the (sentient) land. A captivating tale, from bestselling and award-winning author, that reveals the healing power of duty and honour, love and honey. Chalice by Robin McKinley () : Amazon.es: Libros. Fans and new readers alike will greedily devour McKinley’s latest, a high fantasy as perfectly shaped and eloquently told as Beauty ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Until she was a teenager, Ann Maria Weems lived in the mid-1800s near the author's home in Maryland. A white man risks his life for Ann, cuts her hair short, dresses her like a boy, and launches her on her journey on the Underground Railroad to Canada, her family, and finally to freedom. Separated from her family by her master and shipped off as a housemaid, Ann learns something about independence and about love before the opportunity for escape arrives. To Ann, her teasing brothers, her older sister, and her protective and loving parents are everything. Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders-but she has something that many plantation slaves don't have. ![]() ![]() Is her strong desire for Drantos reason enough to endure danger coming from all sides? Or should Dusti cut and run the first chance she gets?Īuthor Note: VLG stands for Vampires, Lycans, Gargoyles…and breeds in between. Even if that means walking away from everything he knows to keep her at his side. But when that threat turns out to be mostly human women, clueless of their lineage, plans change-especially after Drantos gets a taste of Dusti’s blood. VampLycans Drantos and Kraven were sent to eliminate a threat to their clan. Drantos, the man Dusti can’t stop lusting after, is one of the most dangerous of all. Turns out Vampires, Lycans, and Gargoyles do exist-and they’ve been crossbreeding to form two hybrid races. She’d be grateful…if they hadn’t turned out to be delusional kidnappers, who believe Dusti’s grandfather is some monstrous half-breed creature bent on murder. For Dusti Dawson, it’s just the beginning…ĭusti and her sister Batina survived the crash, thanks to a couple of brothers who are equal parts menacing and muscled. ![]() For most, a plane crash means the end of life. ![]() ![]() Fortunately, what Isaacson is able to convey of Leonardo’s personality is enthralling the genius is both undeniably intriguing and refreshingly fallible. But while he has made great use of the footprints his subject left behind, much about Leonardo’s inner-self and relationships remain opaque and mysterious. Isaacson does a commendable job assembling as complete a narrative of Leonardo’s life as may be possible given that five centuries have passed since his death. These provide the prospective biographer (or enthusiastic scholar) with with enough food for thought to last a lifetime. In addition to his paintings, more than 7,000 pages of his notebooks survive – filled with a remarkable assortment of drawings, sketches, notes, doodles and calculations. ![]() Leonardo may be best known for painting the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper but his interests were wide-ranging: from anatomy and architecture to fluid mechanics, geometry and music. ![]() “Leonardo da Vinci” is Walter Isaacson’s best-selling 2017 biography of the 15th century’s preeminent polymath and quintessential “Renaissance Man.” Isaacson is an author, journalist and professor at Tulane University who has also written biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Henry Kissinger. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you think Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music bears a similarity with Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, there's a chance you might grant this comparison some weight, but surely not otherwise. ![]() I've seen a number of reviews comparing Heller's novel with Cormac McCarthy's 2006 classic The Road. ![]() This rather thoughtless inconsistency is not the only problem with The Dog Stars, but it does serve as a kind of leitmotif for the novel's irksomeness. I'd been wading all afternoon and the current was cold where it pushed up against my knees and thighs but my feet were long numb with that kind of dead warmth. It is rather jarring, therefore, a hundred pages further in, to find the narrator paddling around in a brook so cold it numbs his circulation: Some time later, we learn that the reason the trout died out is because the waters of the mountain streams they once swam in have become too warm for them. Brookies, rainbows, browns, cutthroats, cutbows, every one. If I ever woke up crying in the middle of a dream, and I'm not saying I did, it's because the trout are gone, every one. Shortly after The Dog Stars opens, we find the novel's hero, the abruptly named Hig, mourning the eternal passing of the humble trout: ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse, and several spin-off titles ( B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. ![]() Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. ![]() |