Yet Sam knows she'd be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. A New York Times Best Seller If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.
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Among the notable contributors are Marc Ribot, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Anika.Ĭonsequence caught up with Jarmusch and Logan to discuss the new album, along with its various guest musicians. Now, the pair have unveiled Silver Haze, a guest-filled album that was just released via Sacred Bones Records. For his recent films ( Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson, The Dead Don’t Die), he and Logan have teamed up to compose the scores. Music has been an integral part of Jarmusch’s movies throughout his career, starting with his groundbreaking ’80s films Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law, and continuing in the ’90s with Dead Man and Ghost Dog. After releasing a series of soundtracks and EPs, the duo have just unveiled their first proper full-length studio album, Silver Haze. Sqürl is the musical outfit featuring legendary indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch alongside Carter Logan, a co-producer on Jarmusch’s recent movies. The post Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan Talk Sqürl’s Debut Album, Collaborators, and Favorite Film Scores appeared first on Consequence. Richard Watson is an illustrator based in North Lincolnshire and has been working on children's books since graduating from the University of Lincoln in 2003 with a degree in illustration. He lives in Florida with his wife and son. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James is passionate about encouraging children to read. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. His books have sold in excess of 385 million copies worldwide. JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His primary school headmaster was the fantastically funny author Jeremy Strong. He's also an actor, dancer and trained aerialist as well as a keen observer of trolls and their disgusting habits. Steven is the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award-winning author of The Nothing to See Here Hotel as well as The Diary of Dennis the Menace series and The Wrong Pong series, which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Myriad creative influences coalesced in the conception of Indiana Jones, first introduced in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, including the Saturday matinee movie serials that so greatly inspired filmmakers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, as well as pulp magazine proto-superheroes like Doc Savage, H. And no character in popular fiction more colorfully exemplifies this quixotic hunt for prized relics and lost treasures than that of archaeologist/adventurer Indiana Jones. Yet as any obtainer of rare of antiquities can surely attest, unearthing time’s discarded fragments from the soil of neglect can become a lifelong obsession. A very special form of patience and dedication is required to spend countless hours sifting through a sea of polybagged detritus and sepia-toned nostalgia in hopeful anticipation of rescuing some precious panelological artifact from its musty longbox tomb. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless.” – Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)Ĭomic-book collectors, like archaeologists, tend to be inordinately preoccupied with the past. It’s worthless-ten dollars from a vendor in the street. Exploring Marvel Comics’ The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones The first three books of the Earthsea series are coming-of-age stories with adolescent protagonists. In Tehanu, she attempts to change the whole system by exposing the dark side of patriarchy-including misogyny, rape, child abuse, and a system that devalues the work and concerns of women, children, and powerless men-and by postulating an alternative "woman's power" that will eventually lead Earthsea to a new balance and harmony. In the years after the first three books were written, her evolving feminism made her uncomfortable with the "unquestioned patriarchal system where only men are wizards, only men have power" that she had unconsciously created in Earthsea ("Ursula K. Le Guin returned to the fantasy world of Earthsea that she had created in the first three books of the children's series published between 19. * In Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, published in 1990, Ursula K. She also holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, where she earned both her Master of and Ph.D. Today, most of Brené’s time is dedicated to cultivating “braver leaders and more-courageous cultures” in organizations around the world. Her latest book, Atlas of the Heart, is covered in a five-part series on HBO Max. Her data sets encompass the stories of thousands of people, and her work uncovers “the truth about the emotional blind spots that hold us back both personally and professionally.”Īs a speaker and author, Brown tackles tough topics “with wisdom, wit, candor and a deep sense of humanity.” She is the host of two weekly podcasts, the first researcher with a Netflix Special, and the author of six #1 New York Times best sellers. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston who studies vulnerability, courage, empathy, and shame. In this final installment of the genre-bending Story Thieves series, Owen and Bethany will be forced to risk everything to defeat Nobody and save multiple realities. Then Owen gets trapped in a dark, dystopian reality five years in the future, where nothing is needed more desperately than the power to imagine.įictional Bethany is thrilled to be training with her father as his new sidekick, Twilight Girl-until she realizes that the fictional reality will fade away completely without the nonfictional world to hold it together. Owen-and every other nonfictional person-have lost their imaginations, so they can’t picture their lives any differently. A man was shot and wounded Monday night when he tried to intervene in the theft of a motor scooter, D.C. Bethany has been split in two, with her fictional and nonfictional selves living in the separate realms.īut weirdly, no one seems to mind. The villain they have come to know as Nobody has ripped asunder the fictional and nonfictional worlds, destroying their connection. Owen and Bethany try to find their way back to each other after the fictional and nonfictional worlds are torn apart in this fifth and final book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves -which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal-from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.īethany and Owen have failed. Jon had walked away from the British Army Intelligence Corp. The hint of a WikiLeaks-style exposure of classified intelligence that was once in his care is thoroughly alarming. Hearing an unknown caller resurrect a ten-year-old operation was troubling enough. Jon Markston-former British Army Captain, now Royal Military Academy Sandhurst professor-those words are fraught with disturbing insinuations. The relentless ring from an unfamiliar number and the hushed voice on the other end. What sparked this intersection in Marylebone? and laughing from one Intersection to the next! This gateway novel into the INTERSECTION spy saga is a sensual psychological thriller of unconventional espionage clocking an inexplicable attraction between former intelligencers fanning a firestorm of conflicting interests that could ultimately burn more than just the two who ignited it.Īn accelerating pace-setter for the offbeat, tri-trilogy INTERSECTION series, CONFLICT OF INTRIGUES is driven by the sharp-tongued wit and waggish dysfunction of catalytic characters who will keep readers guessing. Ripped from the headlines, the 36-hour dash through the Marylebone Intersection in CONFLICT OF INTRIGUES is a breakneck blur between real history and fictional mystery. The first of a major two-volume work begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of a rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.ĭrawing on a vast body of knowledge-history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics-Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics. In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, provides a sweeping account of how today's basic political institutions developed. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today's developing countries-with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their citizens. In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. The forces that have triggered this crisisthe rise of non-Western states such as China, contested norms of sovereignty, and the deepening of economic and security interdependencehave resulted from the successful functioning and expansion of the postwar liberal order, not its breakdown. Cleo learns it's not as much fun playing with a new toy without your friends.
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