![]() Hogfather is the fourth book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. ![]() 'Has the energy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland' Sunday Times It's the last night of the year, the time is turning, and if Susan, Gothic governess and Death's granddaughter (sort of), doesn't sort everything out by morning, there won't be a morning. The twentieth Discworld novel and fourth in the Death series - revamped with a fresh bold look targeting a new generation of fantasy fans. It's the last night of the year, the time. It's just not right to find Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho. ![]() Superstition makes things work in the Discworld and undermining it can have Consequences. 'OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death, OTHERWISE WHAT IS 4-30 A.M. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This is more of a description of the pioneering development of computing in America during the decade after World War II. This isn’t a book about Alan Turing, although he does get a few good mentions. I pretty much agree with all of them – both “for” and “against”. You can read the reviews of Turing's Cathedral on Amazon. (I mistakenly recollected the Einstein book as also being a work of George Dyson’s). One of the reason’s I got Turing's Cathedral in the first place (apart from the fact that I love learning about the history of computing) is that I really enjoyed the biography Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson. I was going to write a review on it, but – sad to relate – I really couldn’t rouse the enthusiasm… I just finished reading Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ^ ( EN) The Lost King trailer gives look at Sally Hawkins in incredible true story, su Radio Times.^ ( EN) Steve Coogan to rediscover king's remains at Lothians colliery, su 15 marzo 2021.^ ( EN) British Comedy Guide, Steve Coogan movie The Lost King begins filming, su British Comedy Guide, 23 aprile 2021.^ ( EN) Jake Kanter, Jake Kanter, Sally Hawkins Boards Stephen Frears’ ‘The Lost King’ Tan France Joins Edinburgh TV Festival Board BBC Studios Grows In Australia - Global Briefs, su Deadline, 24 marzo 2021.^ ( EN) Andreas Wiseman, Andreas Wiseman, Pathé Boards Sales On Steve Coogan-Jeff Pope King Richard III Comedy-Drama ‘The Lost King’, Stephen Frears To Direct - AFM Hot Pic, su Deadline, 6 novembre 2020.La prima di The Lost King è avvenuta il 9 settembre 2022 in occasione del Toronto International Film Festival e il film è stato distribuito nella sale britanniche dal 7 ottobre dello stesso anno. ![]() Il primo trailer del film è stato pubblicato il 18 agosto 2022. Le riprese sono iniziate nell'aprile 2021 e si sono svolte ad Edimburgo, Morningside e Newtongrange. Nel marzo 2021 Sally Hawkins si è unita al cast nel ruolo della protagonista. Nel novembre 2020 è stato annunciato che Stephen Frears avrebbe diretto un film scritto da Steve Coogan e Jeff Pope e basato sul ritrovamento dei resti di Riccardo III. La storica dilettante Philippa Langley si mette alla ricerca dei resti di Riccardo III, scomparsi da oltre cinque secoli. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But instead of simple answers, she discovers something much more valuable: the truth. Terrified yet determined, Amy retraces her sister's movements, flying to the last place Sylvie was seen. But what happened to Sylvie? Amy and her parents are distraught and desperate for answers. Timid and shy, Amy has always looked up to her sister, the fierce and fearless protector who showered her with unconditional love. Seven years older, Sylvie was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place, and didn't rejoin her family in America until age nine. Amy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family, is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother-and then vanishes. ![]() ![]() ![]() is looming.Īn unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex's shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race's survival. ![]() She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can't ignore her fear that something unexpected. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora's boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings's world changes - literally.ĭreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities.Desperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her. ![]() ![]() So he considers it good luck when he finds some old medical books in his family’s weekend house that focus on something he could write about. Mitty does feel a little pressure to hand something in–if he doesn’t, he’ll be switched out of Advanced Bio, which would be unfortunate since Olivia’s in Advanced Bio. Mitty was a carefree guy–he didn’t worry about terrorists or blackouts or grades or anything, which is why he was late getting started on his Advanced Bio report. He loved the city, and even after 9/11, he always felt safe. Walking around New York City was what Mitty Blake did best. Cooney has crafted a bioterrorism thriller that is hard to put down.-from the publisher ![]() His own.įrom the author of The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. But when he discovers an envelope containing two scabs in one of the books, the report is no longer about the grade-it's about life and death. So he considers it good luck when he finds some old medical books in his family's weekend house that focus on something he could write about. ![]() He'd much rather watch the game or hang out than do research on infectious diseases just to get a good grade. ![]() ![]() He's a carefree guy, which is why he's late getting started on his advanced bio report. Mitty Blake loves New York City, and even after 9/11 he's always felt safe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some readers may be slightly confused as the timeline suggests that The Maidens may have taken place before the events of The Silent Patient, but, again, it isn’t too distracting. While there is a brief return of some characters from The Silent Patient, the references are light and not essential to the storyline, so if you haven’t read The Silent Patient don’t fret. ![]() ![]() Readers who love the recent themes from Greek mythology that are taking the book world by storm (think Circe and A Thousand Ships, among others), will love this thriller rife with Greek mythology references. Her main suspect is Greek tragedy professor, Edward Fosca. The novel follows Mariana Andros, a grieving widow and a group therapist, who becomes obsessed with a series of murders that occur at Cambridge. Another thriller, The Maidens, takes place in England, primarily on the Cambridge campus. *If you are new here, WELCOME! For The Maidens, I provide your book club with a brief summary, food ideas, and discussion questions in that order! The Maidens Book Club Questions and Food IdeasĪfter his wildly popular debut, The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides has finally released his sophomore novel, The Maidens. ![]() ![]() ![]() This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln-an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community who insisted that slavery was a moral evil and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right. ![]() In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.Īt once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents-a remote icon-or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. “In his captivating new book, Jon Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ī president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how-and why-he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has observed orangutans in the rain forest of Borneo, visited trance healers and dens of black magic, and cooked with women on fires all over the world. In 1986, Rita sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions on the Galapagos Islands, and residing everywhere from thatched huts to regal palaces. to follow her dream of travelling the world, connecting with people in cultures all over the globe. Booklist At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita Golden Gelman left an elegant life in L.A. Gelman doesnt just observe the cultures she visits, she participates in them, bing emotionally involved in the peoples lives. Book Synopsis The true story of an ordinary woman living an extraordinary existence all over the world. About the Book Now in paperback, this memoir with a cult following shows how Gelman redesigned her life to fit her dreams and discovered the value of trust, the rewards of risk, and the magic of serendipity as a modern-day nomad. ![]() ![]() He lost the college grant, “which was feeding our parents.”Īnd so, to the supermarket. Eventually, Bolofo was expelled for failing to turn in the required work. He spent all his time in the darkroom, or wandering the cafeteria looking for girls to photograph. It would still be unheard of.”īolofo arrived in the United Kingdom in October 1970, aged eleven, a refugee from South Africa, and found himself living in a rough London council estate, full of “skinheads and racism.” At Ealing College of Higher Education, where a few years later Bolofo began studying art, resources were scant, so students passed a camera around as a group, trying to remember whose frame was whose. “To say you worked in a supermarket would be unheard of. ![]() “You had to have this pretense-‘Daddy’s quite rich,”’ Bolofo says, wryly. In the early 1980s, when Koto Bolofo made his first pictures for British Vogue, he worked night shifts at a West London supermarket. ![]() Koto Bolofo worked at a London supermarket while trying to break into the fashion world. ![]() |