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![]() ![]() In Italy there's such amazing food and art everywhere. And there are some great art galleries, like the Left Bank Gallery in Wellfleet. Of course, you have to try all the beaches with their incredible sand dunes. I suggest eating oysters or fried clams anywhere in Wellfleet or Provincetown. Q: If someone who had never visited your favorite destination asked you what they should do there, what would you suggest? A. We started in Rome and then took a train to Florence, Siena, Pietrasanta and Lucca. My boyfriend and I took an incredible vacation in Italy. Q: What is your favorite vacation destination? A: Growing up, I spent my summers in Wellfleet and Truro, in Cape Cod, Mass., so I have many fond memories there, and I return every summer. Flack, who retired from dance in 2009, resides in Manhattan with her puppy, Zeus, and boyfriend Josh Charles ("The Good Wife"). A former ballerina with the New York City Ballet, the 28-year-old artist, author and college student writes of an environment where surreal beauty comes at the expense of personal freedom. ![]() In her debut novel, "Bunheads," Sophie Flack writes with an insider's knowledge about the world of ballet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In exactly eight months, five days, three hours and thirteen minutes, Mac has to choose what she’ll be for the rest of her life. What eighteen year old Mac Thorne doesn’t know will probably kill her. It seems, perhaps, becoming a grim reaper isn’t just about the dead but more about a much needed shift in Quincy’s priorities-from who she thinks she wants to be to who she really is. Instead of maintaining her coveted popularity status, Quincy’s goes down like the Titanic. Like when she’s reassuring her friends she wants nothing to do with former best friend Ben Moorland, who’s returned from god-knows-where, and fails. It doesn’t take long for Quincy to realize the only way out of the game is to play along especially since Death can find her anyway, anywhere, anytime. She’s supposed to enjoy her sophomore year, not learn about some freaky future Destiny says she has no choice but to fulfill. There's no way sixteen year old Quincy Amarante will become the fifth grim reaper. ![]() ![]() ![]() The vivid, often fantastical scenes he creates through prose could easily come off as awkward, incongruous or simply unsatisfying on the screen, even within the seemingly limitless capabilities of modern VFX technology. ![]() This likely has to do with Murakami’s penchant for employing elements of magical realism. ![]() There are already several wonderfully meditative, carefully realized adaptations of Haruki Murakami short stories – namely Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s Burning and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s 2021 Oscar-winning Drive My Car – yet many of the Japanese literary icon’s most famous works have long been deemed unfit for cinematic translation. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2010, then Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore warned that President Obama would seek to install “a UN guard in every house” right wing media figures obsessed over the President’s supposed radical influences (Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers), even claiming that his election was part of a vast plot to destroy America (a theme infamously repeated by Sen. Driven by Fox News and talk radio hosts such Glen Beck and Alex Jones, Republicans increasingly adopted birtherism, claimed that President Obama was a Muslim, and indulged a variety of other fringe beliefs. During the Tea Party’s heyday in 2009-2011, political rhetoric on the right took on an increasingly conspiratorial tone. Many of the more extreme currents in contemporary political discourse have originated from the political right, specifically from the Tea Party and President Trump. ![]() In the last ten years, the intersection of conspiracy theories with American political rhetoric has become alarmingly common. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was only vaguely aware of the book beforehand, but was familiar with the author. ![]() Prayers in Steel was a book recommended to me by a mystery blogmate as part of our Book Carousel reading challenge. And waiting in the darkness, behind stolen faces, are the skin walkers – an ancient evil long thought banished from the world of men… Armed with a great sword and armored in his faith, Caida soon finds both tested beyond endurance – for nothing is as it seems, and it is the world that needs to be rescued from the princess, not the princess from anything or any one. Pray for guidance in times of peace, and pray with steel in times of strife.īrother Caida is sent on a quest to rescue a princess kidnapped by bandits en route to her wedding. Their swords are their souls, and their patron saint, Andos, was the living embodiment of their tenets – Protect the helpless. This is the mantra that Andines are taught from their first day as novices. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is visited in the jail by Rachel, his friend and possible lover-Rachel asks him whether he should continue fighting the law, and warns that Matthew Harrison Brady, a famous former Presidential candidate, is coming to Hillsboro to argue the case against Cates. In the play, Bertram Cates, a high-school biology teacher, has been jailed for doing exactly this-teaching evolution as science. Mencken-a famous politician, lawyer, and reporter, respectively-to a small town to determine whether a man ought to go to jail for teaching evolution in a science class, in violation of state law. ![]() ![]() This trial is based on some historical facts of the Scopes Monkey Trial, which occurred in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, and which brought William Jennings Bryant, Clarence Darrow, and H. Inherit the Wind is a play dramatizing the Hillsboro Monkey Trial, in a small American town called Hillsboro, state unnamed, in the 1950s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Brigadier's account of the ongoings of the battle are vivid and terrifying as well as politically controversial. The blind eye turned by the political leaders in India towards the increasing encroachment of the Chinese costed them the war. ![]() The commands that came from the capital were lacking in the experience of the on-field soldiers and the real situation faced at the borders. In his opinion, the primary reason behind India losing to the Chinese was superficial political advocacy and management. In his narration of the war, he talks about incidents that occurred during the months the war lasted and gives his take on how they unfurled. He retells the story of the war and the happenings of the time, on the warfront as well as in the capital of the country. At the time the war had ensued, Dalvi was serving as the Commander of the 7th Infantry Brigade in the North-East Frontier Agency. Himalayan Blunder: The Angry Truth About India's Most Crushing Military Disaster' is a memoir of the Sino-Indian war by the Brigadier who had himself fought the 1962 battle. Himalayan Blunder: The Angry Truth about Indias Most Crushing Military Disaster (Hardback). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The way to save trees, and ourselves? Step aside and let forests - which are naturally better equipped to face environmental challenges - to heal themselves. Instead, they are ecosystems that consist of thousands of species, from animals to fungi and bacteria. Not only are these trees more susceptible to disease, flooding, fires, and landslides, we need to understand that forests are more than simply a collection of trees. While politicians and business leaders would have us believe that cutting down forests can be offset by mass tree planting, Wohlleben offers a warning: many tree planting schemes lead to ecological disaster. ![]() As human-caused climate change devastates the planet, forests play a critical role in keeping it habitable. Now, in The Power of Trees (translated by Jane Billinghurst) (Greystone), he turns to their future, with a searing critique of forestry management, tree planting, and the exploitation of old growth forests. In his beloved book The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben revealed astonishing discoveries about the social networks of trees and how they communicate. Peter Wohlleben in Conversation With Dave Millerįriday, May 5 7pm (PT) / Powell’s City of Books ![]() ![]() In exchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the time and place of his choosing.īut after Evangeline’s first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game – and that the Prince of Hearts wants far more from her than she pledged. Until she learns that the love of her life is about to marry another, and her dreams are shattered.ĭesperate to stop the wedding, and heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic, but wicked, Prince of Hearts. ![]() ![]() ‘An unputdownable fairy tale’ Kerri Maniscalco, New York Times bestselling author of Kingdom of the Wickedįrom the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Caraval series, the first book in a new series about love, curses, and the lengths that people will go to for happily ever after.įor as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in happily ever after. How far would you go for happily ever after? ![]() |