![]() ![]() Prince Harry: Secrets of His Hollywood Life GOĪhead of next week’s live semi-finals, there are emotional moments and fervent button pushes at the last of the London and Manchester auditions as the judges decide on the last aspiring stars to secure a shot at the £250,000 cash prize and a spot on the Royal Variety Performance bill. And whose musical legacy isn’t, perhaps, as recognised as it deserves to be. ![]() ![]() From a straitlaced, gospel-singing upbringing in Boston, early brush with fame in Germany and (surprisingly constructed) overnight success with Love to Love You, Baby, through to the highs and lows of her years in the spotlight.īeautifully edited with archive press and performance footage, coupled with personal home movies and loved ones’ recollections, the film really gets under Summer’s skin, bypassing the labels and cliché to reveal her as a rounded, uniquely talented, hugely complex woman who struggled to balance the demands of fame with her own needs. Spans the whole of her life (she died in 2012 from lung cancer). Co-directed by the Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and Summer’s youngest daughter Brooklyn Sudano, it This exceptional film about disco diva Donna Summer couldn’t be more different: a loving, insightful and, when it needs to be, honest and deeply personal portrait. Often, it seems, just to fill the vacuum that is Saturday night TV. Music fans get more than their fair share of hackneyed, churned-out TV profiles of pop stars. ![]()
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![]() But why? In Butts: A Backstory, reporter, essayist, and RadioLab contributing editor Heather Radke is determined to find out. A woman’s butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, from anxious self-examinations trying on jeans in department store dressing rooms to enduring crass remarks while walking down a street or high school hallways. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. ![]() “Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction.” - Esquire, Best Books of 2022Ī “carefully researched and reported work of cultural history” ( The New York Times) that explores how one body part has influenced the female-and human-experience for centuries, and what that obsession reveals about our lives today. “Winning, cheeky, and illuminating….What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke’s intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise.” - The Washington Post ![]() ![]() ![]() On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. "From international bestseller Stephen King, a high-concept, ingenious and terrifying story about the mayhem unleashed when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs. 355 pp., plus handwritten facsimile of Lisey's Story. Why not a little treat for himself? Clay's feeling good about the futu. He's already picked up a small (but expensive!) gift for his long-suffering wife, and he knows just what he'll get for his boy Johnny. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. From international bestseller Stephen King, a high-concept, ingenious and terrifying story about the mayhem unleashed when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. ![]() ![]() This book is accessible to listeners of all philosophical backgrounds. It comprehensively deals with helping the individual understand exactly what present-moment awareness is, how we are raised in a manner contradictory to this, and how we change our mindset to make this a part of our daily living. This is the purpose of The Practicing Mind. They are ripe for a new path in life and eager for a new set of instructions. They are realizing that the endless struggle to fulfill the insatiable appetite of instant gratification is fruitless and tiresome at best. They are willing to expend the energy necessary to experience inner peace and a quiet mind that is waiting to follow the direction of their will. ![]() But individuals raised in Western culture are becoming increasingly aware of their overall sense of mental exhaustion, their lack of discipline and their inability to focus on demand. Its internal dialogue is always firing off thoughts filled with emotional content and pulling the individual out of the present and into the past or future. The Western mind is always restless, never content with the moment. ![]() In the West, however, it is still a relatively unrecognized concept for living. It has been acknowledged for centuries as the cornerstone of spiritual awakening in all traditions of Eastern thought. Present moment awareness is an essential ingredient in life if one expects to experience any degree of authentic peace and contentment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both stories feature the classic illustrations of John Tenniel in full color.Īlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics for children. Through the Looking-Glass is your passport to a topsy-turvy world on the other side of the mirror, where you have to run fast just to stay in place, memory works backwards, and it is possible to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue, and playfully logical illogic epitomize the wit and whimsy of Carroll's writing.Īlice's Adventures in Wonderland transports you down the rabbit-hole into a wondrous realm that is home to a White Rabbit, a March Hare, a Mad Hatter, a tea-drinking Dormouse, a grinning Cheshire-Cat, the Queen of Hearts and her playing-card retainers, and all manner of marvelous creatures. Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (first published in 18, respectively) have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a book that wears its research lightly, but the subtly antique prose and detailed description combine to create a world that is entirely convincing. First, it draws on traditional slave testimonies by the likes of Solomon Northup and Harriet Jacobs. This beginning of the novel strikes two clear chords. We meet her daughter, Mabel, who flees the plantation and its odious owner, Randall, prompting a wild and fruitless search, and Cora, Mabel’s daughter, our heroine.Ĭora and Caesar are led down to a platform where rails stretch away into darkness. Every dream a dream of escape even when it didn’t look like it.” We meet Ajarry, taken from her West African village and across the ocean on a slave ship. ![]() In the morning and in the afternoon and in the night. The Underground Railroad begins on a particularly vicious Georgia plantation, where all anyone wants to do is escape. Bringing this brutal, vital, devastating novel to a wider audience (it has also been selected by Oprah’s book club) will not be the least of Obama’s legacies. His 2016 summer holiday reading – released by the White House’s press department – not only included Helen Macdonald’s sublime H Is for Hawk, but also Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad. A s if we needed any more reason to mourn the passing of Barack Obama’s presidency, it’s difficult to believe that either of his potential successors will share his fine taste in books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mas mesmo assim, não faltou intensidade a cada encontro deles. ![]() Now I’m flying with him.”Īcompanhar o desenrolar do relacionamento dos dois foi complicado pra mim, principalmente pelo fato de não ter muito diálogo, eu senti muito a falta disso. Em determinadas partes tive muita vontade de bater nele quando era um idiota total e no instante seguinte queria ficar perto e observar a paisagem juntinho, rs. Eu fiquei em um constante conflito em relação a ele, um verdadeiro caso de amor e ódio. Gostaria de ter visto ela se impor mais.Ĭhase foi um personagem bem intenso, complexo e marcante. No entanto, no decorrer da trama me pareceu que ela perdeu um pouco da força e brilho. E nesse aspecto eu a achei bem determinada em alcançar seu objetivo. “What’s the point of being so sad about good things ending if you don’t enjoy them while they last?”Įu gostei da Brooke, foi refrescante ver a paixão que ela tinha por seu trabalho. Porque foi assim que me senti durante a leitura, consegui visualizar na minha mente cada lugar e detalhe. é prazeroso ler um livro onde você percebe que a autora tem conhecimento daquilo que está contando, que não descreve ambientes de forma superficial, pelo contrário, consegue te transportar para aquele determinado momento. É difícil de acreditar que esse é um livro de estreia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The farming unions claim that rewilding will lead to rural depopulation, but centuries of overgrazing have already drained the land of both people and wildlife.Īnd in doing so, Wales is losing part of its heritage, its culture. But what began as a profitable enterprise in medieval times today supports a mere twenty-eight farms over an area covering 46,000 acres. It had started long ago, no doubt: Wales' Green Desert is the product of agricultural malpractice dating back to the twelfth-century monks of Strata Florida. Yet here, humanity had found a rainforest and turned it into a desert. “This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() HASPIL is a fantasy, science fiction, and horror writer. ![]() Shawn is also co-organizer of the Game Devs of Color Expo, the first game conference in Harlem at the Schomburg. A 9 year veteran of the gaming industry, he has worked at Rockstar Games, ESI Design and is currently at MLB.com in a producer role for Gaming & VR content. SHAWN ALEXANDER ALLEN makes (often political) art in the way of games (both digital and non), photography, poetry, and dystopian fiction. Haspil (Graveyard Shift), video game designer/activist Shawn Alexander Allen (Rockstar Games Nuchallenger). Tony Medina (I Am Alfonso Jones), Eisner & Harvey Award-nominated artist Ethan Young, Cerece Rennie Murphy (founder, ) gamer podcaster/author Michael F. Learn the business from award-winning children’s author Dr. Geeks of Color is the premiere NYCC panel on diverse career-building in comics, book publishing, gaming, animation, and film/TV. ![]() ![]() Sometimes we may ship your order in several parts, particularly if you have 'Pre-Order' titles in your order or titles which are held in stock with our publishing partners. Signed Books are shipped in our specially made book mailing cartons, with the books themselves wrapped in paper to protect them. 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