![]() ![]() ![]() This gripping story from the author of The Name Of The Rose is told with all the power of a master storyteller. ![]() Fuelled by media hoaxes, Mafiosi, love, gossip and murder, Numero Zero reverberates with the clash of the cynical forces that have shaped Italy since the last days of World War II. Este é um romance que não deixa ninguém indiferente à reflexão sobre os jornais e o jornalismo. ![]() Um livro empolgante, de um escritor que dispensa apresentações. Eco does a good job presenting the establishment critic who starts out with some sensible ideas but ends up taking. But when a body is found, stabbed to death in a back alley and the paper is shut down, even he is jolted out of his complacency. O novo e surpreendente romance de Umberto Eco. The political aspect here is the strongest. As Colonna gets to know the team of journalists, he learns the paranoid theories of Braggadocio who is convinced that Mussolini's corpse was a body-double and part of a wider Fascist plot. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. Colonna, a depressed writer picking up hack work, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. Mussolini and his mistress are captured by local partisans and shot in a summary execution. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While following the deserted highway toward a distant glass palace, Roland recounts his tragic story about a seaside town called Hambry, where he fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of an evil harrier who ignited Mid-World’s final war. In a terrifying journey where hidden dangers lurk at every junction, the pilgrims find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, that has been ravaged by a superflu virus. ![]() In the fourth novel in Stephen King’s bestselling fantasy quest, the Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. Having also published work under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, Kings first horror novel. Stephen Randall Glass (born September 15, 1972) is an American former journalist and current paralegal. WIZARD AND GLASS is the fourth volume in Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower series. Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. ![]() ![]() ― Mindy McGinnis, quote from The Female of the Species I look at them differently and I assess their bodies and watch their eyes and weigh their words. ![]() Then my sister was gone and I thought: I understand about boys now.Īnd she was right. Of course the obvious thing, but also some others, like he was curious if they’d fit. He took her and kept her for a while, put things inside of her. She said I’d not only want to answer them but that I’d learn how, knowing which words to use, how to give meaning to a pause.Ī man took her before I learned any of these things. She said that everything would change and I would look at them differently, assess their bodies and their words, the way their eyes moved when they talked to me. “Anna told me I would understand about boys one day. ![]() Terry Pratchett Born place: in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, The United Kingdom Born date ApSee more on GoodReads Popular quotes ![]() ![]() ![]() He considered Richard Bass, the first man to climb the Seven Summits, an "inspiration" who made summitting Everest seem possible for "regular guys". In 1986, he enrolled in a mountaineering course and later decided to try to climb the Seven Summits. He attended college in Wichita Falls, Texas, married, and had two children. His autobiographical book, titled Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (2000) includes his ordeal, but also describes his life before and afterward, as he focused on saving his damaged relationships. He survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, which was covered in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air (1997), its film adaptation Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997), and the films Everest (1998) and Everest (2015). Seaborn Beck Weathers (born December 16, 1946) is an American pathologist from Texas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this second edition five further buildings have been added to the original twenty from an even wider geographical area, which now includes the USA, France, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Spain, Finland, Germany, Australia, Norway, Sweden, India and Japan. ![]() Twenty-Five Buildings focusses on analysing examples using the methodology offered by Analysing Architecture, which operates primarily through the medium of drawing. Together the three books offer an introduction to the workings of architecture providing for the three aspects of learning: theory, examples and practice. Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand is an essential companion to Simon Unwin’s Analysing Architecture, and part of the trilogy which also includes his Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect. TWENTY-FIVE BUILDINGS every architect should understand ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was later folded into the DC Black Label imprint with its first graphic novel printing. A great deal in fact but it's a slow burn that doesn't have the length to justify it going so slow and not enough intrigue to make it matter. Written and drawn by Sean Murphy, Batman: White Knight is a non-canon eight-issue miniseries running from October 2017 to May 2018, focusing on the redemption of Jack Napier and the struggles of the eponymous Dark Knight. Baby steps aren't working anymore when you have a big bombastic finale that Murphy always has to get to and wrap up in a satisfying way. More than halfway through the serie s it still feels like it's having a hard time getting to the point. That's where some of the issue drops a little bit. ![]() Harley Quinn is back and ready to knock you out Go beyond the Gotham you know to discover an engrossing new take on the city and its heroes. Murphy is an artist first, writer second and I appreciate the levels of detail he puts into everything from the shadows, the inclusion of generations of Batmobiles, the small touches on the backgrounds and movements or actions that characters make no matter how seemingly insignificant. Plus, an unexpected ally from Bruces past could hold the key to saving the future. It made me laugh with the ever evolving relationship between Jack and Bruce even if it's in his own head, accepting that despite his disdain for the Batman mantle, he still enjoys doing Batman stuff. After taking a very long hiatus on this series to let it finish, I'm back to reading and this issue was awesome. ![]() ![]() ![]() Series New approaches to African history. Imprint Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. Assessing the impact of religion, global trade, slavery and resistance, and the challenges of modernity, this edition further connects the experiences of Africans and their descendants over time and space, attending to both convergences and divergences, while explaining how the deep past informs subsequent developments. Reversing sail : a history of the African diaspora Responsibility Michael A. ![]() ![]() It also widens the geographical span to include Latin America, while incorporating more on African experiences in Europe, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf. Continuing to pay particular attention to the lives of the working classes, the second edition expands its temporal boundaries to include developments into the twenty-first century, as well as integrating women and feminist perspectives more thoroughly. Gomez updates the text to include the most recent research on the African Diaspora. Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience. REVERSING SAIL: A HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is by no means a great movie, but with everything it covers, I think it's solid for the most part. A project like this would never work well with most audiences, but I'm glad they went for it. Even before it's release at festivals and theatrical, it was met with mixed reactions. However once he meets the mysterious Wildcat, and as their friendship blossoms into an undeniable infatuation, Jacob is faced with a challenge: will he renounce his true self for love. When he's sent to a clinic, Jacob and his animal-bound peers are forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of 'curative' therapies. "It's not about surviving, it's about surviving as me." Believing he is a wolf trapped in a human body, Jacob eats, sleeps, and lives like a wolf - much to the shock of his family. ![]() ![]() ![]() He told RadioTimes, “I didn’t want to create a performance that sat on the fence. Terrell gained attention as Barack Obama in the Netflix film Barry, and he brings an intriguing bit of depth to the “Once and Future King” Arthur in Cursed. LUDOVIC ROBERT/Netflix Devon Terrell believes Arthur still has “a really long journey” ahead. Katherine Langford plays Nimue in Netflix’s Cursed. If the story were to be picked up by another platform or streamer, it seems likely Langford would remain attached. She added that she has specific hopes for Nimue in the future: “There’s a lot of talk about the sword this season, and I feel like it would be interesting to see just how deep Nimue’s powers go and what kind of untapped power she has within.” ![]() She told, “I’m trying not to spoil anything, but I feel like this is really just the tip of the iceberg.” Langford feels there’s “so much story left” to tell.Įven if Netflix will no longer steer Nimue's tale, Langford seems eager to reprise her role. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the show, co-created by Thomas Wheeler and comics legend Frank Miller, was one of five axed by the streaming giant during the week of July 5.ĭespite the bitter news, there is some room for speculation that the story could continue. Katherine Langford Talks 'Cursed' and '13RW'īut it would seem the show's title was a self-fulfilling prophecy: Cursed has been canceled after only one season on Netflix. ![]() ![]() Kellie, known as Coco, wants to finally confront the boy who callously broke her heart. ![]() Best friends Kellie Crenshaw and Katie Gilroy have returned to Cedar Cove for their ten-year high school reunion, looking to face down old hurts and find a sense of closure. And as she discovers the secret behind Mark's decision to leave, she welcomes two visitors also seeking their own answers. Just when she is starting to open herself up again to love, she feels once more that she is losing the man she cares about. ![]() When Mark tells her that he's moving out of town, Jo Marie is baffled. Jo Marie and Mark are good friends-and are becoming something more-yet he still won't reveal anything about his past. Since opening the Rose Harbor Inn, Jo Marie Rose has grown close to her handyman, Mark Taylor. ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSet in Cedar Cove's charming Rose Harbor Inn, Debbie Macomber's captivating new novel follows innkeeper Jo Marie and two new guests as they seek healing and comfort, revealing that every cloud has a silver lining, even when it seems difficult to find. ![]() |