![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She tells one of the people she saves: “If you need to cry, cry now.” She bluffs her way past army checkpoints and gathers scarce food for the hidden. Viewers first meet Gies as an aimless party girl who is transformed into a resistance fighter after the Nazis invade. “It needs to make people feel ‘What would I do and what should I do?’ Because the situation right now isn’t that different.” “There’s no point in retelling a story about this part of history that everyone knows so well if we’re just going to be bashed over the head by the same historical facts we already know,” said Powley. Gies, who wasn't Jewish, faced certain death if discovered. In addition to an important historical story, the series is also an examination of how far strangers can go to help someone in trouble. Schreiber plays Anne’s father, Otto Frank. “A Small Light” stars Bel Powley as Miep Gies, a real-life heroine for protecting eight people in a secret annex in Amsterdam where Frank would write her famous diary. “The central storyline being about this young woman coming of age and dealing with her marriage gives you this incredibly intimate perspective on what it’s like to have one’s life interrupted by an invasion,” Schreiber said. ![]() The series streams on Disney+ on May 1 and on Hulu the following day. Instead, National Geographic's “A Small Light” focuses on a young, newly married woman who helped hide Frank and who provided food and other necessities at great risk. Celebrated diarist Anne Frank is in it, but she's almost peripheral. ![]()
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![]() While Valten and Gisela are attractive characters, others lack the spark of life. ![]() Gisela’s conniving relatives maliciously conspire to have Ruexner kidnap her with the intent to force her into marrying him, but heroic Valten comes to her rescue, ultimately aided by Friar Daniel (an annoying character seemingly inserted merely to provide ample prayers and homilies). Valten duels the dastardly knight Ruexner, who’s driven to defeat him even if that requires cheating. After he falls for her, she sneaks out to attend a jousting tournament, where he selects her as his lady. She has secretly admired rugged Valten, Lord Hamlin, for years. Weaving a heavy dose of romance into a familiar fairy tale, and revisiting the same family as in The Healer’s Apprentice (2010) and The Fairest Beauty (2013), Dickerson has concocted another lavish medieval idyll.Ībused by her stepsisters and her vicious stepmother (whose motivation is unclear), orphaned Gisela, whom they call “Cinders-ela,” has never lost her spirit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jake passes off the ring as a replica, but he starts to hear a voice that belongs to Smith. Smith provides him guidance on how to deal with his newfound powers. Jake wants to learn all he can about his new secret ring. Smith encourages him to sharpen his fighting skills by joining the Army. At the end of a dark and deserted tunnel, Jake uncovers the treasure of King Solomon’s Power ring. He puts it on his finger and feels his life changing. Through a map Jake finds on his Father’s desk, he and his friend Avner decide to explore a newly discovered chamber. Defending himself against the townspeople is a constant torment. ![]() Jake’s Father is an archeologist who is in Israel to complete a dig on King Solomon’s Temple. As an eighteen-year-old American, Jake is unwelcome by the people in the territory. The past has a way of coming back to live in the present. A young man with a 3,000 year-old power ring with no social graces determined to make her Queen of the World. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. ![]() Natural resources-such as gold, coffee, and copper-are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organised the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. ![]() Since its US debut, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m thinking we’ll ask for it in the other arm. Doing her part for research on the over 90 group. She signed up for V-Safe as well, to make sure the CDC gets the data it needs. Apparently this kind of reaction is a common thing. Currently it looks sort of tan, and still 4″ around the site involved. It grew to about 4″ around the site and turned bright red again. Day 4, bright red, hot to the touch, puffed up about 1/4 inch. Day 2, a pale pink band about 3″ wide around injection site, kind of hurt. But that’s how it is here.Īnyway, reactions to the vaccine? Yes. I know that probably upends some expectations. So here, being really old and White or Asian, means you really need a vaccine so as not to die. Asians make up 3% of cases, but 8% of deaths. Whites are 24% of cases and 44% of deaths. In Gran’s county, Latinos are 66% of cases, and 42% of deaths. I know so many people who have had so much trouble trying to get a vaccine. ![]() The pharmacy pre-scheduled her 2nd dose that day. Mutti got Gran her first shot of the Moderna vaccine Feb 2. Although Hugh tells me if I ever want to sail up to Vancouver from California, on a rich person’s 40′ superyacht, as crew, he knows someone that moves such boats around for fun and profit. That cuts down on present and future ride sharing / begging. My parents tuned up Gran’s ’97 Chevy and brought it up to Nor Cal for me. Yes, I’ve return to Gran’s house, for this 3rd – but not final – tour of duty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Vivid, subtle, and funny in her portrayal of southern life.”- Entertainment Weekly “It’s the kind of book you look forward to reading before you go to bed, thinking you’re only going to read one chapter, and then you end up reading seven.”-Alan Ball, executive producer of True Blood Praise for #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #2) (Mass Market):Ĭlub Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #3) (Mass Market):ĭead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #5) (Mass Market):ĭefinitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #6) (Mass Market):Īll Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #7) (Mass Market):įrom Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #8) (Mass Market):ĭead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #9) (Mass Market):ĭead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #10) (Mass Market):ĭead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #11) (Mass Market):ĭeadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #12) (Mass Market):ĭead Ever After (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #13) (Mass Market):Īfter Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #14) (Hardcover): This is book number 4 in the Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood series.ĭead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #1) (Mass Market): ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store.” - The A.V. Period.” -Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind Look for book two in the Reckoners series, Firefight, available now. But to exact revenge in Steelheart’s world, David will need the Reckoners-a shadowy group of rebels bent on maintaining justice.Īnd it turns out that the Reckoners might just need David too. If everything you ever loved was taken from you?ĭavid Charleston will go to any lengths to stop Steelheart. ![]() Eliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life simpler. Yet Steelheart -invincible, immortal, unconquerable-is dead. They told David it was impossible, that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. How far would you go for revenge if someone killed your father? Lux - The Reckoners - 17th Shard, the Official Brandon Sanderson Fansite Started by Venno, Aug10 posts in this topic Venno Members Skaa 5 posts Posted AugWho else REALLY liked Lux. Firefight is the second book of The Reckoners series written by Brandon Sanderson Synopsis Newcago is free. ![]() And don’t miss the rest of the Reckoners series: Firefight and Calamity. The #1 New York Times bestseller from Brandon Sanderson, the author of Oathbringer, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]() ![]() ![]() A control layer that turns the whole museum into a one-button operation was built which can be customised for special events.ĪV Binloop HD players are used in the If You Can Dream Orientation Theater, Lighting the Way Theater and for The Greatest film, all of which require synchronous playback of content on multiple screens. The solid-state players offered the Muhammad Ali Centre improved reliability and flexible control. Alcorn McBride’s DVM8500 single-channel HD video players and AV Binloop HD multi-channel synchronous video players were chosen to replace the centre’s outdated proprietary servers and playback equipment. Bingham Gallery and the LeRoy Neiman Gallery. The Center also includes two art galleries – the Howard L. ![]() Ali All the Time offers visitors the opportunity to view on demand, 15 of his most famous fight. The film The Greatest is projected onto the floor of a boxing ring and viewed from a mezzanine level. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first few weeks on the road, Viv stops at every tourist attraction, excited to see all the sights. Viv flies to Quebec to visit her aunt and then begins the drive from there to Florida on a sporty Vespa motor bike. Viv, living in London since attending finishing school, decides to start over in America. Two failed romances leave her looking for a change in her life. This novel is different from many of the other Bond novels, but it is full of the same excitement and sexual tension that makes Bond a favorite for readers of all ages. This job is too good to be true, and ends in a standoff between two mobsters and Bond. During her travels, Viv stops at a motel for the night and is offered a job that will help supplement her travel budget. The young woman, Viv Michel, is an intelligent young woman who has difficulty in romance and comes to America to start a new life. The Spy Who Loved Me is a James Bond novel told not from Bond's point of view, but from that of a young woman he comes to help. ![]() ![]() The series was scripted by Kurt Busiek, a freelance writer whose credits included mainly. ![]() Plus: Who (or what) is KSHOOM? It all starts here. Marvels was originally published as a mainstream, widely distributed comic book by Marvel Comics in 1994. Featuring Captain America, Spider-Man, the Punisher, the Human Torch, Storm, the Black Cat, the Golden Age Vision, Aero, Iron Man and Thor, and introducing two brand-new characters, all beautifully drawn by Yildiray Cinar (X-MEN, Legion of Super-Heroes, IRON MAN) in the opening act of a thriller that'll take us across the Marvel Universe - and beyond. This first issue includes an invasion from orbit, a picnic in Prospect Park, super hero sightseeing in Manhattan, the All-Winners Squad in 1947, Reed Richards during his time in military intelligence, cosmic beings beyond space and time- and that's only for starters. Marvels (1994) Genres: Action, Adventure, Superhero Publisher: Marvel Writer: Kurt Busiek Artist: Alex Ross Publication date: January 1994 - August 1994 Status: Completed Views: 581,020 Bookmark Written by Kurt Busiek and painted by Alex Ross, Marvels is a four-issue miniseries. ![]() ![]() ALL-NEW, ONGOING SERIES! Kurt Busiek (MARVELS, Astro City) is back, with the biggest, wildest, most sprawling series ever to hit the Marvel Universe, telling stories that span the decades and range from cosmic adventure to intense human drama, from the street-level to the cosmic, starring literally anyone from Marvel's very first heroes to the superstars of tomorrow. ![]() |