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Winter soldier ed brubaker7/8/2023 ![]() Nick Pepper, Amazon Studios’ Head of US SVOD TV Development and Series – Wholly Owned, and his lieutenant Matt King, Head of Tentpole, Genre and Universe Development of Wholly Owned Content, are believed to have championed bringing in Criminal for development. ![]() A rep for Amazon Studios declined comment. I hear a writers room for the potential series is up and running. ![]() EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is finalizing deals for Criminal, a TV adaptation of Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips’ bestselling crime comic book series, sources tell Deadline.ĭetails are scarce, but the project - written by Brubaker, who serves as executive producer and showrunner - is described as an interlocking universe of crime stories based on his award-winning comics. ![]()
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The wives of henry oades book review7/8/2023 ![]() Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most in need-and least likely to pay. ![]() From the Back Cover Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Patience Murphy, a midwife struggling against disease, poverty, and prejudice-and her own haunting past-is a strong and endearing character that fans of the books of Ami McKay and Diane Chamberlain will take into their hearts, as she courageously attempts to bring new light, and life, into an otherwise cruel world. In The Midwife of Hope River, first-time novelist Patricia Harmon transports us to poverty stricken Appalachia during the Great Depression years of the 1930s and introduces us to a truly unforgettable heroine. ![]() Book Synopsis A remarkable new voice in American fiction enchants readers with a moving and uplifting novel that celebrates the miracle of life. ![]() About the Book A debut novel featuring Patience Murphy, an Appalachian midwife in the 1930s struggling against disease, poverty, prejudices, and her own haunting past to bring new light and life into an otherwise cruel world. ![]()
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Politics and poetics aristotle7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() 1–2), and then specifically discusses the household (οἶκος : oikos) (I. ![]() He begins with the relationship between the city and man (I. Aristotle comes to this conclusion because he believes the public life is far more virtuous than the private and because men are "political animals". ![]() The highest form of community is the polis. In the first book, Aristotle discusses the city (πόλις : polis) or "political community" (κοινωνία πολιτική : koinōnía politikē) as opposed to other types of communities and partnerships such as the household (οἶκος : oikos) and village. Politics spans the Bekker sections 1252a to 1342b. Citations of this work, as with the rest of the works of Aristotle, are often made by referring to the Bekker section numbers. The title of Politics literally means "the things concerning the πόλις : polis", and is the origin of the modern English word politics.Īristotle's Politics is divided into eight books, which are each further divided into chapters. The end of the Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise-or perhaps connected lectures-dealing with the "philosophy of human affairs". Politics ( Greek: Πολιτικά, Politiká) is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. Aristotle's comparative politics and theory, grounded in virtue ethics and natural philosophy ![]()
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Carian cole tied7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ** Tied can be read as a single book, and has a happy ending But can we overcome the horrible twisted past that ties us together? Together we can have love, happiness, and a closeness that once felt impossible to have. I think he's the only one who can break through mine, too. ![]() ![]() And I want nothing more than to be the one to break through his walls. I ache to hear his voice and see him smile. He saved my life that day he found me and killed my captor with his bare hands. He's as lost in society as I am scarred just as much on the inside as the outside. Tyler Grace is haunted by his tragic past and he's sentenced himself to a lifetime of solitude in the woods. I had no idea my savior would come in the form of a scarred recluse, covered in tattoos, who can't-or won't-speak a word.īut the moment our eyes met I knew he was the one. For eleven years I clung to my childhood fairytale books, waiting for the prince I hoped would someday save me and carry me off to a happily ever after. My childhood and innocence were stolen when I was kidnapped at five years old. Tied (All Torn Up, #2) by Carian Coleīuy on Amazon*, Buy on B&N, Buy on Book Depository ![]()
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Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() He is beloved by authors and editors alike – not to mention his followers on social media – for playfully, brilliantly deconstructing the English language. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help.Īs copy chief of Random House, Dreyer has upheld the standards of the legendary publisher for more than two decades. ![]() ![]() We all write, all the time: books, blogs, tweets, emails, emails, emails – and we all want to write better. Wise, funny, no-nonsense, stylish and brilliantly practical.’ RACHEL JOYCEĪn indispensable, New York Times-bestselling guide to the craft of writing from Random House’s long-time copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus. For those who care about words – and for those who don’t – Dreyer’s English is the book we have all been waiting for. ‘An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer’s English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly.’ ELIZABETH STROUT ![]()
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Feuds and reckless fury7/7/2023 ![]() His visions of Gypsy as a child soon brought the memories of her face flooding back to him. ![]() But Harlan’s love for the water was so infectious she even persuaded her husband, General Gavin Theron, a man who merely tolerated the coastal residence, to have a renewed appreciation for it.Īs Caraculla sat at the bow of the fishing ship, The Elenora, he gripped the wooden bench so hard his knuckles ached. The mere thought of swimming without any concern for what lurked below the water made him shudder. The child would frolic happily with her mother on the white sands and often go swimming in the surf. When Harlan’s daughter Gypsy was a child, Caraculla would watch her from the safety of the home’s stone balcony. He never understood why his friend Harlan Theron loved her coastal residence Fossix by the Sea so much. It wasn’t just because he didn’t know how to swim, but also because he had a healthy respect for the enormous sea creatures that dwelled beneath the surface. ![]() ![]() Leviathan’s castle was built on a rock plateau high above the raging sea. ![]()
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![]() In Whose Water Is It, Anyway?, renowned water justice activist Maude Barlow recounts her own education in water issues as she and her fellow grassroots water warriors woke up to the immense pressures facing water in a warming world. Today, Paris, Berlin, Bern, and Montreal are just a few of the cities that have made themselves Blue Communities. With its simple, straightforward approach, the movement has been growing around the world for a decade. "Maude Barlow is one of our planet's greatest water defenders." ? Naomi Klein, bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine The Blue Communities Project is dedicated to three primary things: that access to clean, drinkable water is a basic human right that municipal and community water will be held in public hands and that single-use plastic water bottles will not be available in public spaces. Living with a Disability or Chronic Condition.Your Library Staff Offer Their Favorites-AUDIOBOOKS.Audie Awards Winners & Finalists: 2004-2021.It's All Greek to Me No More - Great Courses and Pimsleur Audio. ![]()
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Black lamb and grey falcon book7/7/2023 ![]() Writing a five-star review full of superlatives is always difficult: for people who haven’t read it yet, there’s no way any book can live up to the kind of praise that someone who loves it wants to give out. She was made CBE in 1949, and DBE in 1959, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to British letters. Time called her "indisputably the world's number one woman writer" in 1947. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker The Meaning of Treason, later The New Meaning of Treason, a study of World War II and Communist traitors The Return of the Soldier, a modernist World War I novel and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund. She reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. ![]() ![]() She was brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she attended George Watson's Ladies College.Ī prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century. ![]() Cicely Isabel Fairfield, known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer. ![]()
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Whistlestop by john dickerson7/7/2023 ![]() At the bar at the end of a campaign day, these are the stories reporters rehash for themselves and embellish for newcomers. Whistlestop tells the human story of nervous gambits hatched in first-floor hotel rooms, failures of will before the microphone, and the cross-country crack-ups of long-planned stratagems. As Mike Murphy the political strategist put it, "Campaigns are like war without bullets." The battle of ideas has a clear end, with winners and losers, and along the way there are sharp turning points-primaries, debates, conventions, and scandals that squeeze candidates into emergency action, frantic grasping, and heroic gambles. Presidential campaigns are a contest for control of power in the most powerful country on earth. ![]() From Face the Nation moderator and Slate columnist John Dickerson come the stories behind the stories of the most memorable moments in American presidential campaign history. ![]()
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Can you keep a secret kinsella7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() I loved all her confessions when she thought the plan was going down. It was my go to book before I got caught up in all these ebooks. Kandace: Sandra, I’ve read Can Tou Keep A Secret more than 10 times. ![]() Maryse’s Book Blog: I can’t wait to read that, Sandra!!! Sandra: Can you keep a secret? That’s the name of the book!!! Such a great read and same humor as The Plan… She spills all her secrets to a stranger on a plane and he turns out to be the new CEO at her company… It was HILARIOUS One of the most often recommended books in the last week! I mean… “favorite book ever” kind of adamant. Since I read “ The Plan” I’ve been on a search for more like that (funny, but also the whole office romance thing), and not only did this book come up, those that had read it were adamant. MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’S.ALL MY REVIEWS (ALPHABETICAL BY AUTHOR). ![]() |