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Leviathan westerfeld6/29/2023 ![]() “The request line for the sequel can start forming now.” “Wouldn’t it be cool if the First World War had been fought with genetically engineered mutant animals, against steam-powered walking machines? And the answer is, Yes, it would.” “When a book pursues you into your dreams, you can’t ignore it.” “Full of nonstop action, this steampunk adventure is sure to become a classic.” ![]() There’s also The Manual of Aeronautics, the full-color art book of the series! You should totally watch the trailer for the series. With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn’s paths cross in the most unexpected ways, taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men.ĭeryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. ![]() The Leviathan series is these three novels: ![]()
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The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This play was probably written In 1589 however, it was not actually published until 1633, long after Marlowes death. ![]() Thomas Heywood: The well-known dramatist of the time has included Prologues and Epilogues both for the court and the Cock-Pit theatre “…making choice of you unto whom to devote it ”. Christopher Marlowes fourth play, The Jew of Malta, is thought to have been performed as early as 1590, although the first recorded performance was in February of 1592. The play contains a prologue in which the character Machiavel, a Senecan ghost based on Niccolò Machiavelli, introduces “the tragedy of a Jew.” (summary by Wikipedia) The Jew of Malta is considered to have been a major influence on William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Christopher Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 ) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The Jew of Malta (1589) is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own untimely death. The Jew of Malta is a play by Christopher Marlowe that was first performed in 1592. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Jew of MaltaĬhristopher “Kit” Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – ) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. ![]()
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The play a raisin in the sun is about6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When the money arrives and all their dreams seem to be within reach, an unexpected turn of events puts the entire future of the family in jeopardy. ![]() Living on Chicago's South Side, in a small tenement that has accommodated too many people for too many years, they dream of their own home, higher education, and a business investment opportunity. The first Broadway play written by a black woman, the New York Times claimed in 1983 that A Raisin in the Sun “changed American theatre forever” with a radically new representation of black life that was authentic, unsentimental, and undeniably ahead of its time.Īwaiting the arrival of a life insurance check after the death of the family patriarch, the Younger family contemplates the best use of the life-changing sum of money. ![]() First produced in 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun was the winner of the New York Critics Circle Best Play of the Year and its impact on American theatre is as strong today as when it first premiered. ![]()
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Suddenly royal book series6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() In season 1, David receives invitations from the Duke and Duchess to attend a royal wedding, and tries to convince the local residents of the Isle that he and his family are also royalty. After discovering royal roots, David takes his wife Pam, and 12-year old daughter Grace, on an adventure of a lifetime - traveling 3,000 miles to unveil what it really means to be a modern-day heirs to the throne of the British Isle of Man. ![]() Suddenly Royal features the life of all-American blue collar worker David Howe as he and his family embark on a search for his family history online. Produced by MAK Pictures, the series premiered on Septemon TLC. Suddenly Royal is a new American reality series that follows an auto repair advisor on his search for his ancestry. ![]()
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The Nursery by William W. Johnstone6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The premise of the first volume is, perhaps, surprisingly frank: shocked by the imposition of gun controls, and the depredations of Federal government and the unions, a group of patriotic US citizens bring about the nuclear holocaust in the expectation that a better world will, phoenix-style, be born out of the Ashes. Johnstone was initially best known for Westerns, which he continued to produce he wrote considerable supernatural Horror in his later career, as well as the Ashes sequence of Survivalist-Fiction military Post-Holocaust sf novels, which began with Out of the Ashes ( 1983) and terminated thirty-four instalments later with Escape from the Ashes ( 2003). (1938-2004) US author identified as the author of over 170 novels since his first in 1980, a few of these being as by William Mason titles after circa 2003 were seemingly written in collaboration after his death, his name may have been used as a House Name, though more recently the Johnstone series were taken over by J A Johnstone, writing either as in collaboration with Johnstone, or solo. ![]()
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The Creature Commandos by J.M. DeMatteis6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Responding through Twitter regarding the news item that Frank Grillo was cast for the role of Rick Flag Sr., DC Co-CEO James Gunn added the rest of the voice cast:Īnd in addition to Grillo welcome David Harbour as Frankenstein, Indira Varma as the Bride, as Dr. But aside from Grillo, James Gunn also confirmed the remainder of the voice cast and which roles they will be playing in the upcoming DCU project. Discovery presentation to re-brand HBO Max to Max, Frank Grillo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) has been confirmed to be playing Rick Flag Sr. Discovery)Īnnounced just prior to the Warner Bros. DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn confirmed the full voice cast for Creature Commandos, including Frank Grillo, David Harbour, Alan Tudyk, and Zoe Chao. ![]() ![]() James Gunn, DC Studios Co-CEO and head architect of the DC Universe, confirmed the voice cast for the upcoming Creature Commandos animated series. ![]()
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In the woods tana french starz6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() There is a lot of water imagery in Dublin Murders, from the perpetual Irish rain to. Richly atmospheric and stunning in its complexity, In the Woods is utterly convincing and surprising to the end. Starz’s adaptation of Tana French’s bestselling novels is equal parts compelling and wrenching. ![]() Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox-his partner and closest friend-find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. We take a look at STARZs Dublin Murders, the mysterious and demanding series based on Tana Frenchs Dublin Murder Squad books In the Woods and The Likeness. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. ![]()
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Hollywood Tough by Stephen J. Cannell6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But before long the overbudgeted movie is rocketing into production. The plan is to draw the starstruck wiseguy into revealing his real purpose for coming to L.A. He initiates an elaborate and expensive sting operation, actually setting up a phony production company to produce a bogus movie at LAPD expense. At the same time, he becomes aware of a high-profile wiseguy's attempt to control Hollywood's unions. ![]() Is he serious or merely joking around with his coterie of hangers-on? This becomes more than just police business, because the party is to celebrate the engagement of the producer to Alexa's closest friend.Īgainst his wife's wishes, Shane begins to look into this heavy-hitter's past. At a glamorous Hollywood party with his new wife, Alexa, Shane overhears a famous producer make a suspicious remark about the strange deaths of his two ex-wives. Cannell sets his next pulse-pounding thriller in the high-stakes world he knows best-Hollywood! In Hollywood Tough, organized crime attempts to take over the film craft unions.ĭetective Shane Scully is back in the good graces of the department, hailed as a hero after bringing down a deadly gang of rogue cops in The Viking Funeral. A Shane Scully Novel by the Bestselling Author of The Tin Collectors and The Viking FuneralĮmmy Award-winning writer-producer Stephen J. ![]()
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Bell hooks teaching to transgress6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One commitment I made early in my teaching career was to always include, in every course, work written by women and by people of color. I don’t think I’ve written or spoken about pedagogy without engaging bell hooks’ work ever since I first read it. Her essays “are meant to stand as testimony, bearing witness to education as the practice of freedom” (p.11). In Teaching to Transgress, published in 1994, hooks described her pedagogical practices as emerging “from the mutually illuminating interplay of anti-colonial, critical, and feminist pedagogies” (p.10). Our program’s weekly colloquium on the scholarship of teaching included precious few women authors, and even fewer authors of color, and so when I finally got to read bell hooks and Paulo Freire, I could see the kind of teacher I wanted to become. It was when I was a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts twenty years ago that I came to appreciate bell hooks’ work on pedagogy and the vocation of an educator. Many memorials in the last few days have focused on her contributions to women’s studies and black feminist theory since her death on December 15th. ![]() The work of bell hooks (1952-2021) had always been part of my feminist education, in college as well as in graduate school. ![]()
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![]() That's why he's disguised himself as a footman in the home of a respected mapmaker who cheated Brandon out of his land. Brandon couldn't care less what society thinks of him, or that his fellow peers are disdainful of his common blood, but he won't stand for being robbed. She makes him forget he has a score to settle.įew have met the reclusive half-Arab Marquess of Brandon, who is rumored to live with a harem of beauties among his mother's people near Jerusalem. Rose battles an intense attraction to the enigmatic servant, but maintaining a proper distance isn't easy when you and temptation live under the same roof. Rose's secret is tested by the arrival of a handsome new footman who shows far too much interest in his new mistress. If anyone discovers that Rose Fleming is the power and talent behind the family business, the scandal could ruin them. ![]() ![]() ![]() London's most renowned mapmaker is a woman.but nobody knows it. The new footman doesn't seem to know his place. Diana Quincy returns with the newest novel in the Clandestine Affairs series with a steamy romance about a half-Arab marquess seeking revenge on-and falling for-London's most famous mapmaker. ![]() |