5/30/2023 0 Comments Jk rowling fantastic beasts 3![]() ![]() ![]() She plays Professor Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks, a teacher at the American version of Hogwarts, Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Meanwhile, after making a brief appearance in the last movie, Jessica Williams will feature more prominently in the third instalment. Following a slight delay, the third Fantastic Beasts movie will start shooting next spring, Deadline reports, in an exciting new location: Rio de Janeiro.Įddie Redmayne and Jude Law will reprise their roles as Newt Scamander and Albus Dumbledore, joined once again by Johnny Depp (Gellert Grindelwald), Ezra Miller (Credence / Aurelius Dumbledore), Alison Sudol (Queenie Goldstein), Dan Fogler (Jacob Kowalski), and Katherine Waterston (Tina Goldstein). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() After a period of hard work and obscurity, he broke into mainstream publications such as Readers’ Digest, Harper’s, and the New York Times Magazine. Haley settled in Greenwich Village in New York City, determined to make his name as a journalist. When Haley retired from the service in 1959, he was a mature, self-taught writer. He began writing to counteract the tedium of life at sea. Haley completed high school at the age of 15 and attended two years of college, but was uninspired by his studies and left school to join the United States Coast Guard. This exposure directed the course of much of Haley’s work as an adult. ![]() Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, and grew up in Henning, Tennessee, with maternal relatives who spent many hours telling family stories, some of which extended back to Africa. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Hard goodbye![]() They’re the very reason that I have to–that I must–believe that God exists.īecause saying goodbye to them is just too hard. ![]() See, they’re more than just the quips I find amusing and things I share over coffee. They’re the people that I’d throw myself in front of in times of trauma before I would even realize what I was doing. They’re the people that I’m serious about loving. ![]() They all just happen to be the lead characters in my best and brightest anecdotes. It’s not for brag rights that I share these things. And you’ll hear about my Virgininian, English-teaching aunt who encourages me to read and write (and who also gave me the name of my very first fictional character to write about). You’ll hear about my Texan aunt who is beautiful in every aspect of the word (can beauty even be contained by a mere word?), prays fiercly and reminds me of Beth Moore. ![]() You’ll hear about my mom and dad’s happy, strong marriage. And before the steam can finish lifting from your cardboard cup, you’ll hear about how I'm the oldest of eleven cousins. They’re what I share in the getting-to-know-you sorts of conversations, right after the “What do you do for a living?” and “What do you like to do in your spare time?” questions. ![]() They’re the sort of tip-of-the-tongue people you keep at the forefront of your mind and stories. Ho w lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?” ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young... by Debbie Reese![]() ![]() #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women edited by Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth LeatherdaleĪ collection of poems, essays, interviews and art about the experiences of Indigenous women, providing insight into the lives of those who are often overlooked. ![]() An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People adapted by Jean Mendoza & Debbie ReeseĪn adaption of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, which tells the history of North America’s native tribal nations. We’ve put together a book list that shares some of those stories, traditions and experiences of North America’s native populations. Indigenous peoples have a long history, rich culture and stories to tell that often go unheard. ![]() November is Native American Heritage Month, which started as a week-long celebration in 1986 and evolved into a month-long celebration. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Runner by W.J. Davies![]() ![]() George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four was published in 1949 in both London and New York. Whichever hits the shops first is the “true” first edition while the other becomes the “first American edition” or “first English edition.” The value of a “true” first is typically always greater. Many titles were published virtually simultaneously in two places, for example, London, and New York. The location of publication is an often overlooked but important detail in a list of information about a collection of books. However, his Travels with Charley, first edition with dust jacket, is worth around $100. A first edition of John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath in good condition is worth around $2,500. Additionally, some books by famous authors are better than others. ![]() Who wrote that?Ī book is more likely to appeal to collectors, and therefore be worth more, if you have actually heard of the book or its author. If you have one on a good book, treasure it and be sure to protect it with a plastic sleeve. This huge difference in value is largely due to the fact that more than 90% of dust jackets are destroyed, either deliberately or due to their ephemeral and fragile nature. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night with dust jacket is around $6,000. If there is one single thing that is a make or break for book value, it would be the dust jacket. Dust jackets, dust jackets, and more dust jackets! Scott (1896-1940), Tender is the Night, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934, first edition with dust jacket, sold for: $8,295 1. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments La tierra multicolor by Julian May![]() ![]() ![]() Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions. World Federation of Trade Unions declaration on May Day 2023. ![]() 'May Day' Militancy Needed to Create the Economy We Need. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has called for ending neoliberal policies and is pushing for greater state intervention in the economy, the nationalization of key sectors, and an expansionary budget to alleviate the economic crisis in the country… On May Day, NUMSA calls for a national economic agenda for the working class. Israeli occupation forces often collaborate with illegal settlers to attack Palestinians and their properties in the occupied territories in order to force them to leave their homes and farms to be occupied later… Doctors Without Borders ask Israel to stop forceful displacement of Palestinians from Masafer Yatta. : Biden and the US Congress Pass Law Making a Rail Worker Strike Illegal. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The dark tower series books![]() ![]() The third door leads to 1977 and the mind of a psychopath called The Pusher, the very criminal responsible for Odetta’s injuries. The second leads to 1964 and the divided personality of Odetta Holmes/Detta Walker, an African American woman who has lost the bottom half of her legs but gained a second, psychotic self. The first opens onto New York, 1987, and the mind of a heroin addict called Eddie Dean. Fighting off the delirium brought on by the lobstrosity’s poison, Roland forces himself along the beach where he discovers three freestanding doorways that lead into our world. Roland kills the clawed creature, but not before it bites off two of his fingers and half of one big toe. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items.Īfter his final confrontation with the Man in Black in a remote mountain Golgotha, an exhausted Roland awakes on the beach of the Western Sea and is immediately attacked by a shoreline monster known as a lobstrosity. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. ![]() Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links. ![]() ![]() Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Loveless book review![]() ![]() We’re pushed to understand that the same fate awaits Palestine, which is, after all, the novel’s greatest affirmation of love. In time, though, the reader comes to understand that the juxtaposition of beauty and suffering is essential to the novel’s geography - both the tiny cell from which Nahr narrates her life and the occupied country surrounding it. Abulhawa delivers these cadences in prose that at first seems too beautiful for what it describes. ![]() Abulhawa provides a dynamic and challenging exploration of political violence, one that spans multiple geographies and periods of time. We are given the opportunity to read Nahr’s life in a language foreign to American mythologies of progress and civilization. I don’t view it strictly as a novel about Palestine it’s more like a Palestinian statement of purpose. It relies almost completely on the strength of its narrator, but she is up to the challenge, guiding readers through histories fraught with tragedy and dispossession. The language alternates between exhilarating and contemplative. Such is the burden and blessing of the Palestinian novelist. Its poetics can be harsh and its heartbreaks can be soothing. It’s a meditation on love and alienation in a setting that is by nature political, or imbued in multilingual politics, facing the West in audacious vulnerability. Despite its unmistakable investment in (and affinity for) Palestine, Against the Loveless World isn’t what I would call a political novel. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments American gods annotated![]() Contact seller Seller Rating: Book First Edition Used - Hardcover Condition: Good US 15.38 Convert currency US 3. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Bram Stoker Awards, with a special introduction by the author, this is American Gods as Neil Gaiman always meant it to be. American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel Gaiman, Neil Published by William Morrow, 2011 ISBN 10: 0062059882 ISBN 13: 9780062059888 Seller: TextbooksSource, Columbia, MO, U.S.A. For those who have yet to experience Gaiman's bestselling tour de force-a novel USA Today called "a powerful, searing force that makes readers confront what is real and what is not"-and for those eager to enter this astonishing world again, comes the Author's Preferred Text 10th Anniversary Edition. ![]() The Author's Preferred Text 10th Anniversary Edition of the New York Times-bestselling tour-de-force that USA Today called "a powerful, searing force that makes readers confront what is real and what is not." It has been a decade since #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book) rocked the literary world with American Gods-his breathtaking tale of the war on Earth between old gods and new. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Trick me twice becca![]() ![]() “I didn’t want him to see me, in case he told my brother I was here. As Zayde melted away into the crowd, she breathed a sigh of relief. “Yeah, you wouldn’t want to get on his bad side,” she agreed. There’s something scary about him,” I mused. ![]() As he turned his head slightly and the floodlights hit his face, I could see the dark, almost feral look in his icy eyes. Remember him from school? He was in my brother’s year. Keep your voice down.” Her own voice was low. “Who’s that, and why are you hiding?” I turned to her. His face was shadowed, but his sleeves were rolled up, revealing tattoos that snaked up both arms. I followed her gaze, frowning as I tried to make out his features from under his hood. Lena let out a cheer, and then her attention went to a guy standing across from us, watching the fight intently. He followed it up by sweeping Joshua’s legs out from underneath him, sending him crashing to the floor. Ricky lunged forwards, lightning fast, striking at Joshua with a series of jabs that had him staggering backwards. Nothing? The next second, I saw what she meant. ![]() |
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