![]() ![]() Writing in a style as accessible as Terry McMillan ( Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back ), yet with the literary touches of Toni Morrison ( Beloved, Song of Solomon ), McKinney Whetstone's Tumbling is the "warm and wonderful" (Nikki Giovanni), beautiful and uplifting story of Noon and Herbie and their tight-knit Philadelphia neighborhood in the 1940s and 50s. Tumbling is an accomplished novel, with sharply drawn characters, exuberant prose, plenty of period detail and a wise, forgiving outlook on family life." - Los Angeles Times Book Review The beloved bestselling debut novel that launched the luminous career of Diane McKinney Whetstone, critically acclaimed author of Tempest Rising, Blues Dancing, Leaving Cecil Street, and Trading Dreams at Midnight. McKinney-Whetstone captures the formidable struggle to protect both a community and a family." - New York Times Book Review "Warm and intimate. The story moves forth on the power of Ms. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, Lori has to decide if she can finally stand up for what she believes in. When the authorities start asking questions, Lori realises that finding her voice might have got her into a world of trouble. And, unknowingly ignites a powerful movement. And, Lori is suddenly thrust into his unfamiliar and exhilarating world of water polo, parties and stargazing.Īs Lori's old anxieties begin to resurface, she has to find a new artistic release. Jo Watson is the bestselling author of over nine romantic comedies that were originally published on Wattpad and have now been translated into six different languages. But, after a chance connection, Lori finds herself hanging out with Jake, the most popular (and hottest) guy at school. Lori realises that her new school, Bay Water High, isn't made for girls like her. A story of body-positivity and self-love, perfect for fans of Dumplin' and The Upside of Unrequited.Īfter her parents' divorce, city girl Lori Palmer has been dragged across the country to start a new life without her dad. A brand-new novel by bestselling author of Burning Moon, Jo Watson. ![]() ![]() ![]() While you wait, check out our ultimate Matrix recap to get up to speed on the franchise. The Matrix Resurrections arrives this December 22 to theaters and HBO Max in the US. The Matrix 4, AKA The Matrix Resurrections, also stars Christina Ricci, Jada Pinkett Smith, Lambert Wilson, and Daniel Bernhardt. Morpheus isn't exempt from that." He reiterated: "This is definitely a different iteration of the character." She has abandoned not only familiar settings, like New York City and the upstate idyll portrayed in her first two novels, The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, but North Americaand the 20th centuryaltogether. There's a lot in our story that's about growth, defining your own path. Readers introduced to Groff through Fates may find her fourth novel, Matrix (Riverhead, Sept. ![]() "This character is on a journey of self-discovery. In Matrix, Groff imagines her way into the life and lore of Marie.In Groffs version of events, cast out from the court by her sometimes-lover Eleanor of Acquitaine, seventeen-year-old Marie. ![]() "I play a character who's definitely aware of the history of the Matrix the history of Morpheus," the actor said recently. "So we'd sorted the dates and then she sort of changed her mind." He added: "They're pushing on ahead without me."Īnother Matrix actor who isn't returning is Laurence Fishburne – instead, Abdul-Mateen is playing the character, or at least a version of him. It takes the scraps we know of the real-life poet Marie de. "I was in touch with Lana Wachowski, but in the end she decided that the dates weren't going to work," he said back in 2020. Lauren Groff’s Matrix, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Vox Book Club’s October pick, embodies that fantasy once again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Submissions of artwork should either credit the artist, or link directly to the artist's site.ĭo not ask for pirated material. Submissions of video clips or screengrabs must include the name of the movie or TV show. Submissions of comic panels must include the title (and preferably issue #) in the title. Excerpts, clips, and artwork must be sourced Please see Reddit's policies on spam and self-promotion for more details.Ĥ. You may not post links to websites, blogs, or channels that you're affiliated with unless you are an active member of the community. "It's perfectly fine to be a redditor with a website, it's not okay to be a website with a reddit account." This is not a sub for advertisement. ![]() Posts with the explicit intention to push an agenda or political belief will be removed at moderator's discretion. 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On the morning of July 3, 1929, he was discovered slumped in the chair of his home office, his severed head at his feet and the floor littered with copies of The Oldest History in the World. ![]() It was the only volume Evangelist lived to complete. The first volume, self-published in 1926 and out-of-print until September, 2001, left the history at the time of Noah. He wrote it down in one of America's many "received" books, which he titled The Oldest History of the World Discovered by Occult Science in Detroit, Michigan. ![]() Two years later he began having ecstatic visions - "my own views and signs," he said, "that I see from 12 to 3 AM" - and they lasted for 20 years. ![]() Nineteen-year old Italian Benjamino Evangelista emigrated to the US in 1904 and changed his name to Benny Evangelist. For those who don't know the story, this is an article from Jeff Wells: ![]() ![]() ![]() The authors also outline a new political outlook in which a shift from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society is paramount. |a This eye-opening UK bestseller shows how one single factor-the gap between its richest and poorest members-can determine the health and well-being of a society. Dysfunctional societies - Our social inheritance - Equality and sustainability - Building the future. Community life and social relations - Mental health and drug use - Physical health and life expectancy - Obesity: wider income gaps, wider waists - Educational performance - Teenage births: recycling deprivation - Violence: gaining respect - Imprisonment and punishment - Social mobility: unequal opportunities - A better society. The end of an era - Poverty or inequality? - How inequality gets under the skin - The costs of inequality. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-342) and index. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. |a First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, 2009. The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger - Kindle edition by Wilkinson, Richard, Pickett, Kate. ![]() |a xxi, 374 pages : |b illustrations |c 21 cm |a New York : |b Bloomsbury Press, |c 2011. |a The spirit level : |b why greater equality makes societies stronger / |c Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Or should we save it for another day?” I did not meet his gaze, and I was already turned toward the door. “Are you ready to play chess?” I asked in a brisk voice. I stepped aside so I was no longer trapped between him and the window and turned around. ![]() Now I wanted to run from this room and go somewhere far away from this man who made me say things I didn’t want to say and feel things I didn’t want to feel. It had been a mistake to make myself vulnerable. I didn’t know if he felt sorry for what had happened or for asking me about it, but it didn’t matter. “I’m sorry,” Philip said in a hushed voice as he stood behind me. 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The first two novels in the series were made into telefilms in 19, both starring Andrew Stevens as Philip Kent, with the third adapted as a 1979 telefilm starring Randolph Mantooth as the son, Abraham Kent. ![]() The series was originally intended to continue until 1976, covering 200 years. The saga ends some generations later in 1890, with the death of Gideon Kent in The Americans. The first novel begins just before the American Revolution, with Frenchman Phillipe Charboneau, who travels to England and later to the New World, changing his name to Philip Kent along the way and meeting several key figures of the Revolution, including the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Joseph Warren, and others. The books feature different members of the Kent family, connecting them with historical events at the time of the American Revolution. ![]() With The Rebels, The Seekers, and The Furies, Jakes became the first author to have three books on the New York Times bestseller list in a single year, 1975. The books became best sellers, with no novel in the series selling fewer than 3.5 million copies. to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. ![]() The Kent Family Chronicles (also known as The American Bicentennial Series) is a series of eight novels by John Jakes written for Lyle Engel of Book Creations, Inc. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If this summer really and truly is the last summer, it should end the way it started-at Cousins Beach. And it can only happen back at the beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be. ![]() But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Can summer be truly summer without Cousins Beach? It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. You can read this before It’s Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.īelly finds out what comes after falling in love in this follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (soon to be a major motion picture!), Jenny Han. 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The book "traces Hitchens spiritual and intellectual development" and includes claims that Hitchens flirted with Christianity after his diagnosis with terminal cancer and stared "into the depths of eternity, teetering on the edge of belief" and "was wading into Christian waters, getting more than his feet wet". Hitchens was a strong critic of religion and a proponent of atheism. Taunton, the Executive Director of Fixed Point Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to defence of the Christian faith, claims he was a friend of the author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and social critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens. The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist is a 2016 book by American author and evangelist Larry Taunton. ![]() |