![]() ![]() ![]() At this hour, he’d figured the place would be empty. Well, maybe not menacing, but at least unexpected. A menacing figure was backlit in the doorway. “Damn it.” Lee squinted toward the back of the hall to see who’d corrected him. “Happiness and Hope, and welcome to this, uh…heartwarming celebration where my cherished sister, Emma, has been united in wedded bliss to her perfect match, Harold.” “Happiness and Hope, and welcome…welcome? Thank you for coming?” He wrote Happiness and Hope in his notebook, crossed it out, then wrote it again. Just a bunch of blathering about fertility and duty. According to his research-and Lee adored research-the twenty-third century had been rife with pithy, quotable sayings. Lee cast his gaze across the empty hall and wished he could dredge up some semblance of enthusiasm for the speech he’d be expected to deliver tomorrow. WEDDINGS WERE SUPPOSED to be happy occasions. Sign up for JCP News for a scorchingly hot free short, Fire Thief No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Life is Awesome: Mnevermind Trilogy Book 3Ĭharmed and Dangerous: Ten Tales of Gay Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Channeling Morpheus for Scary Mary (Ebook Box Set)Ī Bitter Taste of Sweet Oblivion (Ebook Box Set) ![]()
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![]() Unfortunately, it is a cashless bank, so she panics and runs to a nearby apartment building to avoid being caught by the police. In the present day, a woman tries to rob a bank to get enough money to pay for rent, so her ex-husband won't take her children away. The man wrote a letter to her before taking his own life by jumping off the bridge. He visited a financial banker named Zara and asked for advice, but she flatly said it was his fault for giving the bank his money. ![]() Ten years ago, a man lost all his savings due to a financial crash. It was adapted into a Netflix television series of the same name, which premiered on 29 December 2021. The novel was published in English in 2021. Anxious People (original title in Swedish: Folk med ångest) is a novel by Swedish writer Fredrik Backman published by Månpocket in 2019. ![]() ![]() The Leavesden Studio is most famous for the sets of Hogwarts for ‘Harry Potter’ and has opened it to the public ever since Warner Bros acquired it. The studio property used to be the Leavesden Aerodrome and an aircraft factory before converting to a filming studio. ![]() ![]() It is still locally referred to as Leavesden. The 200 acres studio was known as Leavesden Film Studios before Warner Brothers purchased it. The Witches’ was mostly filmed at Warner Brothers Studio, Leavesden, located at Watford in the southwestern part of Hertfordshire, in southeast England. Despite the film’s story being based in Alabama, you won’t believe the irony of where it was filmed. On the contrary, ‘The Witches’ is set in the rural town of Demopolis in Alabama. Since Charlie is a British-Norwegian boy in the book, Roald Dahl’s book set the story in England and Norway. Here are the locations where ‘The Witches’ was shot! ![]() Director Robert Zemeckis, and the director of photography, Don Burgess, have been highly praised for the stunning visuals and the magnificent production design. Some of the names are Jennifer Lopez, Uma Thurman, Charlize Theron, Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Salma Hayek, and Kate Beckinsale. Interestingly, before casting Anne Hathaway as the Grand High Witch, multiple actors were considered for the role. ![]() ![]() “Fans of the books have asked me over the years if there could be Taylor music and I always of course wanted it, but I can’t promise anything because it’s like not up to me,” she explained to The Wrap that same month. That it’s not going to be just the exact same thing, but what’s the new approach? And how do I make this feel fresh?”Īccording to the author, getting to incorporate Taylor Swift‘s music into season 1 was one of her favorite additions. Han added: “And then, also for me, what’s going to be most like fun and exciting to explore? Because I think as a writer, you have to feel like you’re doing something new in a way, too. “What do the original fans care most about?” ![]() “I approached it like, What do I think are the most important elements of the story to keep? And what do the fans care the most about? I am able to pull from all the emails, letters, and comments I’ve seen over the years from fans, so that’s how we looked at this adaptation,” she told Collider. ![]() The plot thickens! The Summer I Turned Pretty made quite a splash with its debut on Prime Video - and Belly’s ( Lola Tung) love triangle with brothers Conrad ( Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah ( Gavin Casalegno) is only going to get even more complicated in season 2.Īhead of the season 1 premiere, which aired in June 2022, creator and showrunner Jenny Han broke down her attempts to adapt the book series into a TV show. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the most famous war reporters of the 20th Century, Gellhorn travelled around Spain reporting on the Spanish Civil War. Bessie writes truly and finely of all that he could see… and he saw enough.” Hemingway said of the book: “A true, honest, fine book. Novelist Alvah Bessie fought with the volunteer Lincoln Battalion in Spain and, upon his return to the United States, wrote this gritty memoir of the war. The observations of the authors experience fighting against Fascism during the Spanish Civil War was published in 1938 and gives a first-hand account of fighting for the Republicans. Whether it is contemporary accounts, historical thesis or fiction set during the 1936-39 conflict, there is a huge choice of very good reads on the subject. The three year long bloody conflict that divided Spain pitting brother against brother in a pre-cursor to the Second World War inspired great writing and has continued to fascinate historians to this day. On the 82nd anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, The Local takes a look at the best books on the conflict. Picture taken in 1936 of Spanish soldiers loyal to the young Republic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah is married to Mark who is in the military, and they relocated to the midlands when Mark’s work required a move. After completing a nursing qualification in Sheffield, Sarah found there were no vacant district nursing roles so embarked on a two-year nursing role on the respiratory ward in a local hospital. Sarah left college with qualifications in art and design initially before she realised her dream was to become a district nurse. ![]() Sarah Culpan: Lead Nurse Care Co-ordinator (L-R) Sarah Culpan, Lesley Berry, Carmel Rhodes and Debra Gilbert. ![]() Introducing four fabulous women who have their own inspirational stories. In celebration of International Women’s Day 2023, we wanted to celebrate some of the amazing working women in our own Practice team. ![]() Prior to this the Socialist Party of America, United Kingdom’s Suffragists and Suffragettes, and further groups campaigned for women’s equality. Today, IWD belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. The day has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The quality of children’s educational experiences during infancy and early childhood are substantially related to their measured intelligence, academic achievement and prosocial behavior. Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children provides effective means by which these political and social maladies may be fully remedies. They begin life with a 'natural head start.' However, their natural genius it too frequently underdeveloped and misdirected by (1) the fact that the racist and imperialist status quo politically mandates their intellectual under-achievement and social mal-adaptiveness (2) belief in the myth that intelligence is fixed at birth and that Afrikans are innately less intelligent than Europeans (3) a lack of knowledge of their positively unique developmental psychology (4) a lack of confidence in their ability to equal or surpass the intellectual performance of any other ethnic group and (5) the general lack of infant and early childhood educational experiences which stimulate, sustain and actualize their abundant human potential. ![]() ![]() Afrikan children are naturally precocious and gifted. ![]() ![]() Emotions run high, and Anthony has a tendency to run roughshod over those who oppose him. I loved seeing how Charity, with her tender concern and her innate sense of fairness and goodness, starts to turn the family members towards each other while drawing closer to Anthony at the same time. And so they embark on their mad adventure, each with trepidation in their hearts but stalwart resolution in their purpose. She accepts Stauton’s offer without hesitation. She is stunned at the windfall that greets her: a title, a marriage in name only, a quick separation, and an income of six thousand pounds a year. ![]() Her father has left her and her siblings destitute and encumbered with debts, so she knows she needs to make a good impression if she is to secure the post. Staunton’s whole family is set against him, because many years ago, he left home in high dudgeon and in disgrace.Ĭharity Duncan is opinionated but desperately wants to please. Staunton is bent on revenge and wants to marry a nobody in order to spite his father. He interviews a meek woman with a quiet voice who’s well past her first bloom of youth, and offers her marriage wife on the spot. And within the scope of the category-sized story, Balogh delivers a master class on how to write a Marriage of Convenience plot.Īnthony Earheart, the Marquess of Staunton looks for a wife under the guise of advertising for a governess. ![]() ![]() The Temporary Wife is one of those perfect romances, where the emphasis is on romance rather than a lot of extracurricular activity. ![]() ![]() The United States was born of a conviction about the universal applicability of democracy-a conviction that has guided its policies ever since. Islam, in its early centuries, considered itself the world’s sole legitimate political unit, destined to expand indefinitely until the world was brought into harmony by religious principles. In Europe, Rome imagined itself surrounded by barbarians when Rome fragmented, European peoples refined a concept of an equilibrium of sovereign states and sought to export it across the world. China conceived of a global cultural hierarchy with the Emperor at its pinnacle. Each considered itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct principles as universally relevant. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. ![]() There has never been a true “world order,” Kissinger observes. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era-advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades-Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism. ![]() ![]() Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. ![]() ![]() ![]() Logan (the stalker) made me cringe and scream - he was so interesting and disturbing at the same time. ![]() The setup is based on the perspectives of two morally corrupt characters. She lives in fear that her stalker will reveal the truth about what she’s hiding. Delihah becomes a raging obsession for the boy because she reminds him of his deceased lover.ĭelilah may appear to be your typical nerdy, shy teen, but in reality, she’s fierce and hiding some life-or-death secrets. Little does she know, that boy will become her stalker. The novel is about a teen girl named Delilah who moves to a new school and meets a young boy who she falls in love with. The Obsession is your typical high school love story - except someone will die. With all of the plots the characters face, the book is quite exciting to read. ![]() Sutanto is a young adult fiction book based on a truly messed-up love story. ![]() |