5/27/2023 0 Comments Release lucia franco![]() ![]() The first season premiered on HBO on November 18, 2018, and on Rai 1 and TIMvision on November 27, 2018. ![]() The first two episodes were presented at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, in 2018. My Brilliant Friend is a co-production between Italian production companies Wildside, Fandango, The Apartment, Mowe and international film groups Umedia and Fremantle. Named after the first of four novels in the Neapolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante, the series will adapt the entire literary work into four eight-episode seasons. My Brilliant Friend ( Italian: L'amica geniale) is an Italian- and Neapolitan-language coming-of-age drama television series created by Saverio Costanzo for HBO, RAI and TIMvision. ![]()
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5/27/2023 0 Comments Moon called by patricia briggs![]() However the next time they meet he's being chased by some out-of-towners a rare combination of werewolf with human accomplices. He seems a nice enough lad, and Mercy hires him. A newly turned werewolf arrives in her garage looking for work. ![]() ![]() A very different creature to the werewolves, but close enough to understand them. Her somewhat unique heritage is as a Native American shapeshifter, into a Coyote - fast and clever but lacking in brute power. Mercy has long since outgrown her adopted family of werewolves and lives independently in central US as a mechanic. It is competently done, SOme nice hookls for future backstory development and a constrained world that is internally consistent and references european myth with enough unique US spin. First of a long running UF series featuring werewolves and vampires, but I think this preceded Twilight. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Dodger by terry pratchett![]() ![]() ![]() This endangers Simplicity and prompts Charlie to have her moved to the house of his rich friend Angela Burdett-Coutts. These incidents turn Dodger into a celebrity, which helps him gather information, but also make it impossible for him to stay anonymous. During the next days, Dodger thwarts a robbery attempt at the offices of the Morning Chronicle when meeting Charlie, and causes the arrest of a murderous barber named Sweeney Todd when he tries to improve his appearance before meeting Simplicity. Charlie gives Dodger the task of finding information on the streets about her and the carriage from which she escaped. A doctor treats her injuries and discovers that she was pregnant and the child is lost.ĭodger's actions impress the gentlemen, as does the genuine affection they quickly see growing between him and the girl, who is tentatively called Simplicity. This is witnessed by two gentlemen, Charlie and Henry, who take the girl to the latter's nearby home, accompanied by Dodger. The protagonist Dodger, a street urchin and tosher, emerging from a sewer drain, comes to her help and chases away the attackers. One night on the streets of London, a battered young woman leaps from a carriage, followed and assaulted by two men. ![]() ![]() The book was released on 13 September 2012 in the UK. 13 September 2012 (UK), (Doubleday Children's)ĭodger is a novel written by Terry Pratchett, set in early Victorian London, and inspired by Charles Dickens's character the Artful Dodger. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Dinotopia the world beneath![]() ![]() Orianna is only willing to give it up if she is allowed to accompany Arthur in his expedition, a term which he reluctantly accepts. A musician named Oriana Nascava comes forward with the missing half of Arthur's key, claiming it to be a family heirloom. After returning from his first expedition in A Land Apart From Time, Arthur presents two artifacts he discovered – a sunstone and half of a key – to the council at Waterfall City in an attempt to afford a second expedition into the World Beneath. The Dragoncopter fails and Will is narrowly saved by Cirrus, his Skybax mount, before the Dragoncopter plummets into a waterfall. It was published in 1995Ī quest undertaken to discover the mysterious "World Beneath" focuses mainly on Arthur Denison's return expedition to the World Beneath and opens with Will testing an invention of his father, the Dragoncopter – a steam engine ornithopter modeled after the dragonfly. ![]() Dinotopia: The World Beneath is the second book in the Dinotopia series. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Lawrence h keeley![]() ![]() Prehistoric warfare, according to this view, was little more than a ritualized game, where casualties were limited and the effects of aggression relatively mild. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This quote teaches me that is through acts of kindness that our love for all those around us will grow. This quote inspires me by reminding me that we can perform acts of kindness for the people who are closest to us, but we can also do them for those we might not know as well. Moments like that have inspired me to remember that you do not need to understand an act of kindness in order to accomplish one. In those times, I have always been grateful for the people around me who are willing to help, no matter what the situation is. There have been times in my own life when I have been in need of kindness from others. This is the form of kindness that I have been inspired to share since my first time reading the book. What I love most is how the story highlights one of the most important forms of kindness that we can practice: a kind where we do not have to understand why we are doing it, but we know it will help somebody else. The nine-year-old main character of the story travels around New York City meeting all kinds of people from all over the world. This story is meaningful to me for many reasons, but especially because of what it teaches about kindness. Other articles where Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is discussed: Stephen Daldry: Close (2011), based on a novel by American writer Jonathan Safran. In my favorite book “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” Jonathan Safran Foer writes about the struggle of a young boy trying to connect with his father after losing him on September 11th. ![]() “I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer ![]() ![]() ![]() “The things we were so sure of, passions we had, mistakes we made-it’s all part of becoming who we are today” and helping to clarify where we go tomorrow. “When we look back on our journeys, we should cringe from time to time,” writes Relevant founder Cameron Strang. Most of us do this more than once as we go through life and so do the people we work with. Why would this interest the coaches, counselors, leaders and others who read these words? Like most of my closest friends, Miller and some Relevant editors are around 40, looking back on their life journeys and thinking about where they want to go next. Here he wrote about looking at our lives and shaping new life stories that could be visions for how we live in the future. I read the book when it first came out and but was more impacted by Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. The book “tapped a nerve, gave voice to a restless generation, and helped serve as a catalyst to new ways of thinking and living” and being a Christ-follower. ![]() Relevant calls Miller“the voice of a generation” whose “groundbreaking” memoir wrestled with questions of faith, doubt and worldview. The May-June 2012 issue looks at Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and the recently released film that builds on the book. Probably I’m one of the oldest readers of Relevant magazine – a thoughtful, sometimes edgy, Christian-oriented publication geared to readers in their twenties and thirties. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor![]() But when Jeremy threatens to break his heart and steal his crown, Lukas kick starts a plot to sabotage Jeremy’s campaign. ![]() Lukas Rivers, football star and head of the Homecoming Committee, is just trying to find order in his life after his older brother’s funeral and the loss long-term girlfriend-who turned out to be a boy. ![]() Instead of bowing to the bigots and outdate school administration, Jeremy decides to make some noise-and how better than by challenging his all-star ex-boyfriend, Lukas for the title of Homecoming King? Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won’t let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his senior year. Today we’re pleased to welcome ZR Ellor to the WNDB blog to discuss his YA novel May the Best Man Win, out May 18, 2021!Ī trans boy enters a throw-down battle for the title of Homecoming King with the boy he dumped last summer in ZR Ellor’s contemporary YA debut. ![]() ![]() It's sold over eight million copies and has recently been turned into a hit movie. Heaven Is for Real, his father's account of the uncanny event, has become a mainstay of contemporary evangelical apologetics. But Colton's experience has become something of a phenomenon. Most 21st-century Christians have never heard of Saturus. Felicitas, and their Companions, one of the oldest Christian texts. His account is found in The Passion of St. ![]() Saturus recorded this ecstatic experience shortly before he was brutalized by wild animals and then killed by gladiators in celebration of Emperor Geta's birthday in A.D. It's the story of Saturus, a third-century Christian martyr. ![]() No, this isn't the story of Colton Burpo, the four-year-old boy who supposedly traveled to heaven during an emergency appendectomy. His experience is recorded in a wildly popular book read around the world. He doesn't know them, but they are all excited to finally meet him.Įventually, this heavenly expedition ends, and he awakens back on earth. The visitor then encounters a parade of faces from earth. The Lord's face projects a youthful radiance, and he greets the new arrival with warmth and tenderness. The first person he meets is Jesus, clothed all in white. He arrives at a city whose walls beam with light. ![]() Angels usher him out of the only world he's ever known and up into a land filled with beautiful flowers and trees. As death approaches, he leaves his body behind. ![]() ![]() ![]() If 30 days have gone by since your purchase, unfortunately we can’t offer you a refund or exchange. ![]() Just as scientists and researchers are fascinated by the wealth of knowledge and depth of meaning carried in the verses of the Qur'an (Koran/Coran), modern readers too will find a great deal of benefit in the amazing information and insight offered by this book. The only way they could have reached us is through revelation: proving that the Qur'an is the word of God. Time after time, respected scientists and renowned experts from all over the world, upon studying the verses of the Qur'an (Quraan) have had no other choice but to acknowledge that there were no means of knowing these scientific facts 1400 years ago. How can we explain the numerous scientific facts mentioned in its verses over 1400 years ago? Besides, the Qur'an has many miraculous verses proving that it is undoubtedly a revelation from God and not the work of a human.Īlthough the Qur'an is not just a book of science, it clearly states a number of scientific truths that were uncovered only with the help of modern technology in the 20th century. The inimitable style of the Qur'aan and the superior wisdom in it are definitive evidences that it is the Word of God. The Qur'an is a book of guidance for all of humanity, and Allah has promised that He will preserve it in its original pristine form until the Day of Judgment. ![]() |