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Devil in a blue dress by walter mosley5/28/2023 I hope they find someone resembling a “draw” as opposed to betting entirely on the IP. It will at least be another example of Black faces in conventionally white spaces, which was somewhat the point of Misha Green’s Lovecraft Country and its genre-hopping structure. I hope the folks who ignored Motherless Brooklyn in theaters and then complained that Hollywood doesn’t release any movies for adults as they binged HBO’s Perry Mason prequel will sample this new Easy Rawlins show. Rami Malek, Denzel Washington and Jared Leto in John Lee Hancock's 'The Little Things' Warner Bros.Ĭonversely, no one expected Edward Norton’s (surprisingly light) Motherless Brooklyn to catch on theatrically in late 2019, just as Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto’s The Little Things was a proverbial January dump that actually got received as an Oscar contender for its one main white actor.
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Heart of Mist by Helen Scheuerer5/27/2023 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Year: 1987 Here are the 35 best movies streaming on Hoopla right now:ġ. On Hoopla, there’s something for everyone, from modern hits to established giants of the canon. As a good Midwesterner, though, Hoopla’s where I fall, and I have plenty of pleasant first-hand experience. If your library isn’t serviced by Hoopla, there’s a good chance it falls under Kanopy’s jurisdiction. We broke down the best movies on Hoopla, which range from stone-cold classics to artful indies. When our streaming budgets are pushed to the limit by lackluster original content, turn to an easy, non-pestering service that’s available on desktop and mobile. No ads, simple account set-up, decent user interface. I can’t emphasize this enough: It’s free. While Kanopy boasts deals with more arthouse-oriented fare like The Criterion Channel, Hoopla offers an exciting mix of indies, studio movies and new releases. Similar to the library-accessible streaming service Kanopy, Hoopla is a completely free (no ads) way to access movies, books, comics and audiobooks-all with just a library card.
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Books like spqr5/27/2023 A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists.Īncient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria.
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2 states story of chetan bhagat5/27/2023 It should be highlighted that youngsters create a new era distilling irrelevant customs. The open minded youngsters always pursue change, clutch the socio-cultural mobility in their midst. The ideology of the present youth is to change the world into a rational entity. Drawing on theories of aesthetic, popular culture, life writing and creativity, this paper tries to analyse two novels English, August (1988) by Upamanyu Chatterjee and 2 States: The Story of My Marriage (2009) by Chetan Bhagat in order to understand the distinctive creative expression present in Indian popular fiction and to enquire the genre " s aesthetic possibilities which may be found in some of its global transformations. " While the question of Indian popular fiction " s merit as a form of young adult writing and its claim to literary status remains undecided, this genre has travelled a long way and the conclusions drawn about its imitation of Western forms does not suffice to mark its aesthetic significance. These new genres deal with the contemporary society, discuss the enhancement of entrepreneurship, easy urban relationships, and consumerism and are often termed as " chick lit ", " techie lit " or " Metro Reads. In India these are largely written by young Indians using a distinctly Indian flavour. Since 1990s, the distinction made between " high " and " low " culture via standards have been evident in the critical reception of this genre termed as " popular fiction " or " bestsellers ".
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Snyder on tyranny summary5/27/2023 Our only advantage is that we can learn much from their experience.” They saw democracy and still yielded to fascism, communism, and Nazism. Snyder argues that we are no wiser than the Europeans who came before us. This is unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. Today, the political order is facing new threats. That is the tyranny that can overcome ancient democracy. He says that they tried to protect us from the threat that they knew about. In his book, Snyder talked about the foresight of the founding fathers of this nation. “Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century is now a celebrated #1 New York Times bestselling book. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
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Ivy and bean the book5/27/2023 and then help each other out of it as only true friends can. HEARTWARMING STORYOF FRIENDSHIP: This charming book follows Ivy and Bean as they get themselves into trouble. Centered upon messages promoting friendship, empathy, and understanding, this a charming and addictive introduction to the Ivy and Bean chapter book series filled with vibrant characters and lots of humor. But after Ivy comes to Bean's rescue, they become the best of friends and begin a series of silly, sneaky, imaginative, sometimes naughty, and always hilarious adventures.įrom beloved children's book author Annie Barrows, the Ivy and Bean collection has been delighting preschool, kindergarten, elementary, and kids of all ages for nearly two decades. Ivy seems nice, wears dresses and sparkly headbands-which makes Bean think she's too boring to be friends with. Bean has lots of friends, loves stomping in puddles and hates being bored. The original book in the bestselling series, Ivy and Bean: Book 1 introduces Ivy and Bean, two spunky friends who never meant to like each other. A Netflix Original Film Series A New York Times Bestselling Series Over 8 Million Copies Sold
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Kelly oram cinder and ella5/27/2023 The end of one story is often the beginning of another. Then a surprise email from an old Internet friend changes everything. Brian isn’t thrilled with the arrangement-or his fake fiancée-but decides he’ll suffer through it if it means he’ll get an Oscar nomination. In order to douse the flames on Brian’s bad-boy reputation, his management stages a fake engagement for him to his co-star Kaylee. There’s major buzz around his performance in his upcoming film The Druid Prince, but his management team says he won’t make the transition from teen heartthrob to serious A-list actor unless he can prove he’s left his wild days behind and become a mature adult. Hollywood sensation Brian Oliver has a reputation for being trouble. The only way she can think of to start healing is by reconnecting with the one person left in the world who’s ever meant anything to her-her anonymous Internet best friend, Cinder. If Ella wants to escape her father’s home and her awful new stepfamily, she must convince her doctors that she’s capable, both physically and emotionally, of living on her own. After a very difficult recovery, she’s been uprooted across the country and forced into the custody of a father that abandoned her when she was a young child. It’s been almost a year since eighteen-year-old Ella Rodriguez was in a car accident that left her crippled, scarred, and without a mother.
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Leonardo mo willems5/27/2023 Like all Manual Cinema productions, you’re invited to watch the big screen like a traditional movie, or to watch the artists below as they create the story in real time. Manual Cinema wanted to re-create the experience of holding one of Mo’s book pages, which are big, bold, colorful, and full of visual rhythm, with a playful use of scale. Mo Willems is an author, illustrator, animator, playwright and the inaugural Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence. Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster uses hundreds of illustrated paper puppets, book pages, two-dimensional props, furry monster puppets, and songs to bring Mo Willems' books to life.
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Deathwish by Rob Thurman5/27/2023 She is vanilla, only vanilla eaten in the dark, so mysterious. Three books down and she has been cool, amused, sometime sympathetic and Niko's rich vampire girlfriend. Its like somebody substituted a Terminator while no one was looking. The only times he comes close to snapping is when he thinks his brother is dead, but even then all he does is get colder and deadlier. A bit too perfect? Unbelievable at martial arts, he has the physical ability and tactical skill of a Special Forces officer, the intellectual ability of a major league academic and the mental stability of a Buddhist monk. Note: There will be UNBLOCKED SPOILERS, so read at your own risk.įirst issue is characters, specifically Niko and Promise. I have so far read the first three books in the series: Nightlife, Moonshine, and Madhouse.I have some definite problems I would like to raise and see if anybody else has also faced these while reading.
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Patricia MacLachlan's 58-page book, published just over five years ago, won the prestigious Newbery Medal for children's literature in 1986 and quietly became a classic, selling more than a million copies.Īs a television movie, it is the 168th sponsored by Hallmark Hall of Fame, which has established an admirable record of underwriting high-quality productions that often garner Emmys. Viewers who have grown tired of violence and weary of war on their television screens get a break this week when CBS offers "Sarah, Plain and Tall" (Sunday at 9), a beautifully filmed story set at the turn of the century in the Kansas farmlands. |