![]() ![]() She’s a 19th century forerunner of Willa Cather-in love with the land and second to no man in strength and self-reliance. After inheriting a farm from parents who died young, her headstrong sense of undaunted pride and resolve amazes the men in the neighboring villages. ![]() The setting is the lime green valleys of Dorset in the 1870s, where Bathsheba Everdene is a woman ahead of her time. It rises head and shoulders above most of what we’ve been seeing lately. Still, its virtues are many and this filmed version of Hardy’s fourth novel is well worth seeing. Marred by casting mistakes and reduced to an outline of the Hardy novel, this study of a beautiful woman torn between the love of three men but unable to choose only one fails to capture both the vision of country life and the canvas of British geography so vividly detailed by Mr. Starring: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts and Michael Sheenįortunately, somber Danish director Thomas Vinterberg doesn’t even try to embellish or improve it. ![]()
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![]() Agent - Jed Mattes, 175 West 73rd St., New York, NY. Hobbies and other interests: Sailing, skiing, hiking, reading, movies. Education: University of Michigan, B.A., 1966 Wheelock College, M.A., 1977. Knight (a photographer and filmmaker), children: Maxwell, Meribah. ![]() ![]() Swann) Personalīorn June 24, 1944, in Indianapolis, IN daughter of Marven (a wine bottler) and Hortense (a social worker) Lasky married Christopher G. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stacey wishes he could help by getting work and chafes at his parents’ reservations about him doing so. ![]() Papa begins to worry they will not be able to afford the tax on their cotton. The Depression is difficult for all farmers, sharecroppers and landowners alike. Granger arranged for her firing for suspicious reasons, teaches a school-after-school for the kids. ![]() She and her siblings also go to church and school. is convicted and sentenced to death by the all-white jury.Ĭassie spends time reading to her elderly neighbor Mrs. was led into the robbery by the two white Simms brothers but did not murder the shopkeeper. Jamison, attempt to show the jury the truth–that T.J. They witness T.J.’s noble white lawyer, Mr. Cassie and her brothers and friends attend the trial even though their parents did not want them to. has been arrested for robbing and murdering a white shopkeeper. Avery, a friend of her teenage brother Stacey T.J. When the novel begins, Cassie and her family spend time with their friends and neighbors. Granger, the wealthy white owner whose land abuts theirs, is always endeavoring to take it from them. The family owns their land, which they inherited from their grandfather, but Mr. Cassie Logan, an African American girl in the sixth grade, narrates the story of her family and extended kin and friends in Depression-era Mississippi. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are crossover appearances by a number of Marvel universe characters beyond the "Black Panther" series. ![]() With prose and a storyline aimed at a younger audience, the narrative arc is true to the spirit of the original comics. When one of those closest to the princess becomes a victim, Shuri must draw on all of her training, her innate abilities, her courage, and her faith in the power of friendship to rescue the girls and put things right. It alerts her to an upcoming technology conclave that she wants to attend with her brother, but soon it is warning her of serious problems in the world beyond Wakanda: Young girls with STEM talents are being abducted. Though training takes up most of the royal teen's time, she still keeps a watchful eye on any threats to Wakanda from the outside world using her multi-point digital surveillance system, Panther Reconnaissance Operative Watch Lattice (PROWL). Gr 3-7-Shuri, Wakanda's tech-genius princess and King T'Challa's pesky little sister, is back in this second title in the "Black Panther" series. ![]() By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th ![]() ![]() Pink can not think just how gorgeous and also wonderful Ellie is. ![]() Drake Hart and also his companion Daniel pinkoski (aka Pink) can not believe their good luck.ĭrake can not believe how lovely the brief curvy as well as plainspoken lady Zoey is. ![]() Ellie hires a bodyguard company to shield her sibling. The issue begins when Zoey begins getting harmful letters as well as seems being tracked. Zoey is the brains, as well as Ellie her lovely sibling is the adhesive that makes them work well together. Her sis has been a design since she was 7 years old stunning by many guys’s standards. Zoey’s a computer coding Super star, she’s a bit autistic. ![]() This publication like all of us Alexa Riley books is stunning tender and really loving. ![]() ![]() ![]() For behind the appearances of the once-grand lady and the once-humble man are two people who share an understanding of what true honor means, and how only with it can one find love. If at first Gil and Abigail seem to embody what the other most despises, each will soon discover how wrong first impressions can be. ![]() Gil has come to help his friend and junior officer recover, and he doesn't take lightly to being condescended to-secretly because of his own humble beginnings. He is Gilbert Bennington, the lieutenant colonel and superior officer who has escorted her wounded brother, Harry, home from the wars with Napoleon. Someone to Trust by Mary Balogh: 9780399586101 : Books During a rare white Christmas at Brambledean Court, the widow Elizabeth, Lady Overfield, defies convention by falling in love with a younger man in this. Indeed, she's grown confident enough to scold the careless servant chopping wood outside without his shirt on in the proximity of ladies.īut the man is not a servant. But now, six years later, she enjoys the independence a life without expectation provides a wealthy single woman. First appearances deceive in the newest charming and heartwarming Regency romance in the Westcott series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.Ībigail Westcott's dreams for her future were lost when her father died and she discovered her parents were not legally married. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The online world’s exponential growth is creating new opportunities, with easy profits and little detection, for sophisticated cyberunits of organized crime. “What most people do not understand…is that any data collected will invariably leak,” writes the author, and the worst is yet to come. Most companies are hacked regularly and cannot detect it when they find out (from customers or police), they often try to hide the loss of data. “e’ve wired the world,” he writes, “but failed to secure it.” Noting how easy it is to hack into computer systems, most notably smartphones, Goodman first describes the present era of digital crime, from cyberattacks on companies (Target, Sony) to the failure to protect information by data brokers and social media to the growth in identity theft (13 million Americans affected annually) to digital surveillance, cyberstalking and hate crimes. In this highly readable and exhaustive debut, he details the many ways in which hackers, organized criminals, terrorists and rogue governments are exploiting the vulnerability of our increasingly connected society. “We are now entering the great age of digital crime,” warns Goodman, a former police detective–turned–cybercrime consultant and founder of the Future Crimes Institute. An alarming view of the burgeoning dark side of the Internet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Author, Parini Shroff, says, " The Bandit Queens began ten years ago as a short story about women in a microloan group and the power of money. Filled with clever criminals, second chances, and wry and witty women, Parini Shroff's The Bandit Queens is a razor-sharp debut of humor and heart that readers won't soon forget. What happens next sets in motion a chain of events that will change everything, not just for Geeta but for all the women in the village. Freedom must look good on Geeta, because now other women are asking for her 'expertise' making her an unwitting consultant for husband disposal. It's even been good for business: no one dares to not buy her jewelry. No one messes with Geeta, harasses her, or tries to control (ahem, marry) her. As it happens, being known as a 'self-made' widow comes with some perks. But in her remote village in India, rumor has it that Geeta killed him. ![]() ![]() As in, she actually lost him-he walked out on her and she has no idea where he is. Paperback | 352 pp | Rs 499 Available wherever books are sold | Releasing 10th April 2023 Five years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. New Delhi, March 25 (ANI/PRNewswire): "A radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of unsinkable women."-THE NEW YORK TIMES Longlisted for the prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction, Parini Shroff's The Bandit Queens is a razor-sharp debut of humor and heart that readers won't soon forget. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Akata Warrior blends mythology, fantasy, history and magic into a compelling tale that will keep readers spellbound. Much-honored Nnedi Okorafor, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, merges today’s Nigeria with a unique world she creates. With the support of her Leopard Society friends, Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha, and of her spirit face, Anyanwu, she will travel through worlds both visible and invisible to the mysteries town of Osisi, where she will fight a climactic battle to save humanity. ![]() Now, stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny is studying with her mentor Sugar Cream and struggling to unlock the secrets in her strange Nsibidi book.Įventually, Sunny knows she must confront her destiny. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse, brought about by the terrifying masquerade, Ekwensu. “The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!” -Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of SpeakĪ year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. ![]() ![]() The newest novel by the author of Akata Witch and the forthcoming Marvel comic book series about Shuri, Black Panther's sister! ![]() ![]() ![]() « City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi » was my travel reading for my first trip to India in the summer of 2007, a trip which began and ended in Delhi. ![]() « City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi » William Dalrymple HarperCollins 1993 The book is remarkably lucid and continuous yet it webs off to touch an aspect of Delhi's life and pulse, leaping off once in a while, only to loop back again to complete a full circle.Īlternating between past and present, like day and night, the author spans over 3000 years of Delhi's history and history of its peoples in an ingeniously funny and at the same time poignant way.ĭalrymple is a genius of pen and perception and City of Djinns is simply a superlative work of art. One moment you will have your heart racing finding yourself in the midst of a mehfil at the pinnacle of Delhi's literary history and a page later you will suddenly be transported to dereliction of today's old Delhi, description of mouth watering delicacies from Dara Shikoh's wedding is contrasted by thirst and hunger of Daulatabad death march. ![]() ![]() This little book by Dalrymple brings to life a new flavor on almost every leaf. Some can be tasted, some viewed, some just felt and still others which are just to be believed.just taken for granted. ![]() |