![]() ![]() With alliances shifting quicker than the tides, Xingyin has to overcome past grudges and enmities to forge a new path forward, seeking aid where she never imagined she would. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Xingyin is determined to keep clear of the rising danger, the discovery of a shocking truth spurs her into a perilous confrontation.įorced to flee her home once more, Xingyin and her companions venture to unexplored lands of the Immortal Realm, encountering legendary creatures and shrewd monarchs, beloved friends and bitter adversaries. But her fragile peace is threatened by the discovery of a strange magic on the moon and the unsettling changes in the Celestial Kingdom as the emperor tightens his grip on power. The stunning sequel to Daughter of the Moon Goddess delves deeper into beloved Chinese mythology, concluding the epic story of Xingyin-the daughter of Chang’e and the mortal archer, Houyi-as she battles a grave new threat to the realm, in this powerful tale of love, sacrifice, and hope.Īfter winning her mother’s freedom from the Celestial Emperor, Xingyin thrives in the enchanting tranquility of her home. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As the summer progresses Eliza finds herself illustrating peculiar finds from the geologic past. Tanner is strange and gruff, his grandson Charlie is friendly and handsome. ![]() Eliza utilizes her talent as an artist and accepts a job as a "natural history illustrator" for the local eccentric Orville Tanner. What she imagines to be a fun-in-the-sun vacation quickly turns into a season of assuming responsibility as she is forced by her uncle to get a summer job. Įliza Wolcott has been sent by her parents to live with her aunt and uncle for the summer on the small community of Orcas Island off the mainland of Washington State. Tanner is strange and gruff, his grandson Charlie is friendly. ![]() ![]() Eliza Wolcott has been sent by her parents to live with her aunt and uncle for the summer on the small community of Orcas Island off the mainland of Washington State. ![]() ![]() ![]() With a deft ability to balance both half-hour single-camera comedies and one-hour dramas, Pete Chatmon has directed over 50 episodes of television including HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, Insecure, Silicon Valley, and Love Life, Netflix’s You, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and Black-ish, Starz’ Blindspotting, FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the Apple TV+ series Mythic Quest. Pete will be discussing his work on The Flight Attendant as well as his journey as a Black director and the continued importance of diversity in the industry. This edition we are in conversation with director Pete Chatmon (“The Flight Attendant”, “Insecure”, “Silicon Valley”). June 23rd at 4:30 PM PT | 7:30 PM ET, join us for another edition of The Download – a special VIRTUAL guest conversation series featuring impactful filmmakers who provide insider knowledge to help Black creatives make their work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() almost always, it's going to ring a bell in the hearts of other people."Īt this point in Strayed's career, where she's podcasting, producing and has two on-screen adaptations of her work, Strayed says her definition of success as a writer remains unchanged. "If you speak from your truest voice, by which I mean the deepest one, the most vulnerable one, the one that's willing to risk vulnerability. Strayed says you don't need to be an expert to give advice. Clare, like Strayed, is tapped to anonymously write the "Dear Sugar" advice column – which Strayed took over 11 years ago. She hasn't written the great American novel like she'd hoped, her marriage is in trouble, her teenage daughter hates her, and no matter how long ago it happened, her mother is dead. Strayed is an executive producer of the series in which Hahn plays 40-something Clare, a version of Strayed who has a similar past but never hiked the Pacific Coast Trail, aka the version of Strayed we got to know from her bestselling memoir "Wild" and the film starring Reese Witherspoon. "I love to make people cry," Strayed said on "Salon Talks." "It's really one of my favorite things." The Hulu show "Tiny Beautiful Things," based on Cheryl Strayed's book and starring Kathryn Hahn, is a tearjerker. ![]() ![]() ![]() For the most part, though, she breaks the cardinal show/don’t-tell rule, the result being an ultimately tedious read. devastated by the break-up.” Occasionally, Latifi leavens such generalities with concrete, specific details-her first use of Nair, her discovery of library cards and of Jane Austen, her first visit to an American courtroom, the ugly plaid that seems ubiquitous in Virginia. Experiences that might have been entrancing in the hands of another writer tend to the prosaic: “Day-to-day life in Iran was becoming impossible” “Before long, I began to feel more optimistic about the future” “I was. ![]() Despite the thrilling backdrop, though-the tumultuous Iranian politics, international education, high-pitched emotions-the story is colorless and plodding. After years apart, Mother and all the Latifi siblings are reunited in America, and the tale concludes with our heroine’s first, emotionally grueling trip back to Iran. The author learns English from television, studies hard, and becomes an attorney. Latifi’s courageous and cunning mother sends her two daughters-ten and eleven-to Austria for schooling and for safety, and they eventually settle in the US. Her father is arrested on trumped-up murder charges, tried before a puppet court, and executed. The Revolution tore apart the Latifi clan, as first-time author Latifi recounts in this family saga. A depiction of life after the Iranian Revolution will invite inevitable-and unfavorable-comparison with Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran. ![]() ![]() Like Muller, his most prominent students faced personal and social challenges as they practiced cutting-edge science. This book tells Muller's story by interweaving it with those of seven of hismost famous students.Muller suffered from depression and insomnia at the same time as he was doing his most important scientific work, and may have committed suicide at age 56. Among them wereTheodor Schwann, who demonstrated that all animals are made of cells Hermann Helmholtz, who measured the velocity of nerve impulses and Rudolf Virchow, who convinced doctors to think of disease at the cellular level. Muller taught many of the leading scientists of his age, many of whom would go on to make trail-blazing discoveries of their own. ![]() ![]() Many structures in the human body are named after Johannes Muller, one of the most respected anatomists and physiologists of the 19th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Not the Witch You Wed is breezy, warm, and a pleasure to read. "Hilarious, sexy, and refreshingly modern.Readers will devour this." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) In Not the Witch You Wed, April Asher brings all the hilarity and sweet, sexy moments you love in a romantic-comedy-plus a fun dose of magic-to this spell-binding new series about being sexy, single, and supernatural in New York City.īOOKPAGE, "2022 Preview: Most Anticipated Romance" One thing’s for sure: magic doesn’t make dating and love any easier. But there are old secrets and looming threats that could snatch away their happily ever after, again. When old feelings make a reappearance-along with Violet’s magic-they both realize there’s nothing fake about their feelings. But when the two of them are forced by arcane Supernatural Laws to find mates, Violet and Lincoln agree to fake-date their way to a fake-mating in order to conjure themselves some time. Magic-less witch Violet Maxwell wants nothing to do with alpha wolf shifter Lincoln Thorne-the man who broke her fragile, teenage heart. A fake relationship between a magic-less witch and a wolf shifter turns to more in the start of a bewitching new paranormal rom-com series. ![]() ![]() ![]() But something has been lost in translation from the pages to the screen, even though-or maybe because-the show doesn’t stray that far from the pages. Just by existing, Netflix’s The Sandman has achieved what once seemed unachievable, and the first season showcases the series’ potential. Given the comics’ mix of settings spanning dreams and the waking world, along with a story that features a number of eternal, anthropomorphic beings, demons, and nightmares, re-creating the original visuals in live action was a tremendous challenge. ![]() The question is: Does the series, which bears the name of one of the most revered comics ever adapted, live up to the outsized expectations?Īfter watching the 10 episodes that make up the show’s first season, it’s easy to understand why The Sandman took so long to get made. More than 30 years after its namesake comics began printing, the TV version of Neil Gaiman’s masterpiece is streamable on Netflix, where the first season (which covers the comics’ opening volumes) launched late last week. ![]() After a multitude of filmmakers and screenwriters failed for decades to adapt it to the screen, The Sandman earned the reputation of being “unfilmable.” But like so many recent projects based on source material that once shared the same damning label, the elusive IP has broken through at last. ![]() ![]() ![]() They draw me deeper into their dangerous world, until I’m in the middle of all the violence and gang warfare, tangled up in all the secrets and lies, and there’s no turning back.īut with enemies on all sides, survival becomes a deadly game with no guarantees. Their cruel games, harsh words, and rough touch awakens something inside me, and now, I’m in trouble. Until The Sainthood decides I belong to them and cracks appear in my veneer. ![]() ![]() And it only works if the victim cares.īecause I’ve been in hell for years, and nothing penetrates the steel walls I’ve erected. Those manipulative a-holes set out to ruin me after our hot night together, but they didn’t realize you can’t destroy something that’s already broken. The night I met Saint, Galen, Caz, and Theo. Includes Revere, a BONUS NOVELLA set twelve years after the end of Reign.Įverything changed the night my dad died. Series: The Sainthood – Boys of Lowell HighĪ complete dark romance trilogy from USA Today bestselling author Siobhan Davis. ![]() ![]() ![]() Told by his tutor, and later prime minister, Lord Bute, that marrying a subject was just not possible, George accepted Bute’s advice. It is a measure of how seriously King George III took his job that even before he came to the throne, when the 21-year-old fell in love with Lady Sarah Lennox, the exquisitely beautiful daughter of the Duke of Richmond, he gave her up. In fact, he was constitutionally scrupulous to a fault and, unlike most monarchs of his age, lived according to the principle that duty always comes first. ![]() But as Andrew Roberts shows in his magisterial new book, The Last King of America, George III was certainly no tyrant. ![]() He did indeed go mad, more than once in fact. Most Americans know only two things about King George III: that he was the British tyrant Thomas Jefferson denounced in the Declaration of Independence and that he went mad. ![]() |