![]() ![]() The Harvard Square Hotel, Eastern Mountain Sports, Dickson Bros. She knew she was in Harvard Square, but she didn’t know which way was home. The corridor, the hotel, the stores, the illogically meandering streets. ![]() “She wanted to continue walking but stood frozen instead. In one of Alice’s early episodes, she finds herself disoriented and lost in a place as familiar as her own home: Within 320 pages, readers see Alice Howland quickly swing from an admired professor to a confused and dependent patient. In just a few airborne hours, I had inhaled the entire novel, told from the point of view of a renowned Harvard cognitive psychologist who recognizes in herself the symptoms of early-onset Alzheimer’s. ![]() While wondering how I was going to pass the time, I remembered I had downloaded Still Alice, a book which has been on my to-read list for nearly a decade. I found myself on a nine-hour flight with no television, no Internet and all my downloaded films mysteriously deleted from my e-reader. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I saw the brief summary on this, and I was so excited to read this.įor starters, I felt like Elena was such a damn crybaby. I actually hadn’t really heard of this book before until now, and that was because I decided to join a series buddy read on Goodreads. So I should start by saying that usually I really love books about dragons… But that’s only if it’s written really, really well. ![]() Souls intertwined and hearts no longer torn, through their love Paegeia will once again be born.” “ The leaves of change will come at last, when the fate of two heart’s bond is cast. Now it’s time for Elena to believe – in herself.Īuthor: Adrienne Woods | Series: The Dragonian Series | Format: Audiobook | Narrated by: Erin Moon | Length: 10 hours, 37 minutes | Publish Date: Septem| Genre: YA Fantasy/Paranormal | Rating: ★ ★ ★ | Recommend: Maybe ![]() Teenage girls don’t believe in fairy tales. And the only way Elena’s going to graduate is on the back of a dragon of her own. The cutest guy around may be an evil dragon, a Prince wants Elena’s heart, and a long dead sorcerer may be waking up to kill her. Now Elena’s in a new world, and a new school. Until the night a fairy tale killed her father. Teenage girls don’t believe in fairy tales, and sixteen-year old Elena Watkins was no different. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He catalogued all the Coptic manuscripts in the British Library. He sets his selection of gnostic scripture, the writings of Valentinus and his followers, and related writings that display gnostic tendencies within the broader context of Early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism, with generous introductions and plentiful annotations.įor specialists, Layton's Coptic grammar is a standard text. His most accessible book is The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations (Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1987), which presents some of the enigmatic literature of gnostic Christianity for nonspecialists. With a summa cum laude thesis on the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Coptic Treatise on the Resurrection, which he presented in a critical edition in 1978, he has moved on to present critical editions of other texts: The Hypostasis of the Archons, Or, The Reality of the Rulers., serialized in Harvard Theological Review 67 (1974) 351-425 and 69 (1976) 1-71, and others. His interests lie in the History of Christianity from its origins until the rise of Islam, Gnostic studies and Coptic. He is a Harvard-educated scholar who has been central to the late 20th-century Rediscovery of Gnosticism, which was the title of the international conference he hosted at Yale in 1980 and the volume that came of it. Bentley Layton (born 12 August 1941), is Professor of Religious Studies (Ancient Christianity) and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Coptic) at Yale University (since 1983). ![]() ![]() With a world on the brink of war and a power of ultimate destruction, can Wil find a way to help the kingdom that's turned its back on her, or will she betray her past and her family forever? When it leads to tragedy, though, Wil is forced to face the destructive power within her and finally leave her home to seek the truth and a cure.īut finding the key to her redemption puts her in the path of a cursed prince who has his own ideas for what to do with Wil's power. At first Wil is horrified - but as she tests its limits, she's drawn more and more to the strange and volatile ability. ![]() Until one night Wil is attacked, and she discovers a dangerous secret. Kept hidden from the world in order to serve as a spy for her father - whose obsession with building his empire is causing a war - Wil wants nothing more than to explore the world beyond her kingdom, if only her father would give her the chance. Wilhelmina Heidle, the fourth child and only daughter of the king of the world's wealthiest nation, has grown up in the shadows. ![]() Perfect for fans of Shannon Hale and Renee Ahdieh. ![]() The first in a new fantasy duology, The Glass Spare is a gorgeously told tale of love, loss, and deadly power, from Lauren DeStefano, the best-selling author of the Chemical Garden series. ![]() ![]() ![]() These two references – the tap as art work and as illustration of a personal anecdote – converge around the relatively inarticulate photographic image. ![]() Returning home, they fixed one of these mysterious objects to a wall and expected it to gush forth miraculously. The title comes from an old Winterling family story about some visiting Russians who were fascinated by a tap. The tap in Russian Joke is, in fact, a Duchampian art work by Krasiński he attached the fitting to the studio wall, unconnected to any water supply. Winterling’s exhibition, ‘…Of Mice and Blood (for E.K.)’, formed an elliptical homage to the artist and his work. ![]() Winterling in the Polish artist Edward Krasiński’s Warsaw studio, which has been preserved by the Foksal Gallery Foundation as it was at the time of his death in 2004. Russian Joke (2009) is a photograph of a steel tap coming out of a white wall, one of a series of pictures taken by Susanne M. Winterling, Untitled Forever (Embrace Space Projection) (detail), 2009, celluloid and jewellery, dimensions variable ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is very unique in the sense that it wasn’t a plot-and-character piece of literature it was never meant to be that.” “It’s got that repetition, it has that quietude of language that kids thirst for. Jiménez, a Wheelock College of Education & Human Development senior lecturer and associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion. “The book is designed to lull children to sleep,” says Laura M. It’s sold more than 40 million copies in the last seven decades. ![]() The bedtime book is still wildly popular. Goodnight Moon did its job-for millions of parents and children. If anything, it’s a testament to its power. This is not a knock on Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd’s book, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Not because it’s been 30-some-odd years since I’ve read the children’s book (although that doesn’t help), but because almost every time my parents read it to me before bed, I fell asleep before they finished. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before too long, they end up trapped in the fantasy worlds he created.Ĭolumbus and Vizzini published the first book of three in the series (pictured) through Balzer + Bray in 2013, followed by sequels Battle of the Beasts in 2014 and Clash of the Worlds in 2016.Ĭolumbus, Barnathan and Radcliffe have previously produced several kids films together, including the Night at the Museum and Percy Jackson & the Olympians franchises. House of Secrets is about three kids who move to a creepy Victorian-style house that used to belong to a writer. Columbus is leading the adaptation through his 26th Street Pictures prodco, with colleagues Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe. Ayo Davis, EVP of creative development and strategy, will oversee the development for Disney Branded Television. But a premiere date has not yet been set. ![]() Disney Branded Television is partnering with producer/director Chris Columbus to develop a new action-adventure series called House of Secrets.īased on the middle-school fantasy book series that Columbus co-authored with Ned Vizzini, this live-actioner will launch on Disney+. ![]() ![]() ![]() His search for answers sets him on a collision course with the Angels - with thousands of innocent lives hanging in the balance. ![]() Meanwhile, Darik Mason, an ambitious junior executive at JenKore, begins to uncover a dark secret within his company. Now interstellar fugitives, Dex and the Angels fight to survive against a force more terrifying than any of them could have ever imagined. But when he learns that a colony of religious refugees is under attack, Dex makes a split-second decision that costs him his once-promising career. He was a rising star in the United Coalition Navy, an ace pilot in command of the “Angels” - the UCN’s most prestigious fighter squadron. On Earth and on colonies across the stars, those who cling to their faith are labeled "religious extremists" and forced into re-education camps.ĭex D’Felco never planned on getting involved. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and she finds in her colleagues a group of friends-even a new girlfriend-and for the first time in her life, her future seems bright.īut soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing moderating guidelines. Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. ![]() So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst-but Kayleigh needs money. ![]() About the Book "Originally published in the Netherlands in 2021 by Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek."-Title page verso. ![]() |