![]() ![]() This radical retelling of the greatest story ever told brings Mary Magdalene to life-not as a prostitute or demon-possessed-but as an educated woman who was truly the "apostle to the apostles." Together they speak of sharing their direct experience of God but Yeshu'a unexpectedly gains a reputation as a healer, and as the ill and the troubled flock to him, he and Magdalene are forced to make a terrible decision. Salome too begins to believe, but Mariamne, now called Magdalene, is drawn to his cousin, Yeshu'a, a man touched by the divine in the same way she was during her days of illness. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy in the Great Library of Alexandria.Īfter seven years they return to a Judaea where many now believe John the Baptizer is the messiah. ![]() But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions she has the power of prophecy. ![]() Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning-a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Upon visiting Monroeville Mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania with a friend whose company managed the complex, he decided to use the location as the basis for the film's story. Romero waited to make another zombie film after Night of the Living Dead for several years to avoid being stereotyped as a horror director. David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross star as survivors of the outbreak who barricade themselves inside a suburban shopping mall amid mass hysteria. In the film, a phenomenon of unidentified origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh. ![]() ![]() An American-Italian international co-production, it is the second film in Romero's series of zombie films, and though it contains no characters or settings from the preceding film Night of the Living Dead (1968), it shows the larger-scale effects of a zombie apocalypse on society. Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 zombie horror film written, directed, and edited by George A. ![]() ![]() ![]() She and her best friend, Macy, consider various options and end up at a nice townhouse close to college and to Keegan’s part time job (at a doctor’s office where she works in the records area). She has had to miss too many study groups for her physiology and anatomy class due to having to look after Sarah so often and she needs to improve her grade in that subject in particular if she wants to be a nurse. Keegan loves her sister but she needs her mother to step up and be the parent so Keegan can get on with her studies and nursing school. ![]() Keegan’s mother goes out a lot and leaves Sarah to Keegan’s care with alarming frequency. While I enjoyed it well enough, unfortunately, it didn’t hit the heights of the other book.Ģ0-year-old Keegan Philips lives with her eight-year-old sister, Sarah, and their very irresponsible mother. Bender is an opposites-attract, roommate story, which I was hoping might be something like My Favourite Mistake by Chelsea M. ![]() ![]() ![]() The graphic novel adaptations of the I Survived series are very well done. Keep all your fluids inside the moving vehicle of you. So unless you want one of these giving you an 'oh, hai' If you learn one thing today, let it be the fact that sharks are just as drawn to vomit as they are to blood. ![]() Just don't come crying to aunty karen when the shark hits the fin. Look, the only uncle jerry i know is this guyīut go ahead, ignore my warnings, listen to uncle jerry, have a great time in the water. However, i do not think that the advice about how to defeat the cowardly shark, should you encounter one in the ocean, is sound.Īnd if there's one thing "monty" knows by now, it's that rabbits can also be deadly ![]() Uncle jerry may have meant that the pie would be more likely to attack monty than it would be to attack a shark, which seems to bear out-i could find NO images on internet of a shark being hit in the face with a pie, but i DID find an instance of a pie attacking monty: That pie over there is more likely to attack you than a shark. Where to begin with uncle jerry's life lessons?Ī shark will not attack a human. ![]() The story is the same, so i suppose i don't have much actual reviewing work to do here, but i do want to say a few words about uncle jerry. This is the graphic novel version of I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916, which i have already reviewed here. ![]() ![]() If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street-and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all. As their search draws them deep into a plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world. She soon finds herself fascinated by - arid torn between - two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and Will, whose volatile moods keep everyone at arm's length. Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons. The Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa's power for his own. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, who are members of a secret organization called the Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she has the power to transform at will into another person. WHEN SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD TESSA GRAY crosses the ocean to find her brother in Victorian England, something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld. Magic is dangerous - but love is more dangerous still. ![]() ![]() ![]() They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry-or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. ![]() From the author of The Perfect Find, this is a witty, romantic, and sexy-as-hell new novel of two writers and their second chance at love.īrooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget and seven days to get it all back again. ![]() ![]() (Ilt)/ Gruelle, Worth (Ilt)īy Pinkwater, Daniel/ Pinkwater, Jill (Ilt) Raggedy Ann's Book of Thanks : Little Blessings for Every Daīy Gruelle, Johnny/ Gruelle, Justin C. Kevinīlue's Halloween Hide-And-Seek : A Lift-The-Flap Story (Blueīy Smith, Michael T./ Cardinali, Kevin (Ilt)īy Schwartz, Betty/ Motoyama, Keiko (Ilt)īest Thanksgiving Ever! (Bear in the Big Blue House)īy Evans, Richard Paul/ Linton, Jonathan (Ilt)īy Inches, Alison/ Cassity, Don (Ilt)/ Pickles, Angelica Rugrats in Paris Movie Storybook (Rugrats)īy Dubowski, Cathy East/ Dubowski, Mark/ Weiss, David N.īy Gold, Rebecca/ Gold, Becky/ LA Paz, Orlando De (Ilt)/ Studio OrlandoĬostume for Bear (Bear in the Big Blue House)īy Thorpe, Kiki/ Berlin, Rose Mary (Ilt)/ Strader, P. Who Am I : A Book to Touch and Feel (Blue's Clues)īy Schoberle, Cecile/ Love, Judith Dufour (Ilt)īy Schoberle, Cecile/ Stephenson, Kristina (Ilt) David/ Gorey, Jill/ Herndon,īy Gold, Rebecca/ Goldberg, Barry (Ilt)/ Gold, Becky/ Weiss, David nathan Rugrats in Paris : A Dream Come True (Rugrats)īy Taylor, Donna/ Weiss, David N./ Stem, J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If Pigs Could Fly : And Other Deep Thoughtsīy Lansky, Bruce/ Carpenter, Stephen (Ilt) 紀伊國屋書店Bookweb:洋書タイトルリスト 洋書タイトルリスト Toby Counts His Marbles (Toby)īy Merriam, Eve/ Pollack, Pamela/ Harrison, Joanna (Ilt)īy Thompson, Lauren/ Erdogan, Buket (Ilt)Ĭarlotta's Kittens : And the Club of Mysteriesīy Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds/ Daniel, Alan (Ilt) ![]() ![]() ![]() Many alternate books are possible, for example Probability: Theory and examples. One should know the material in these books, end to end. ![]() Feller Probability theory and its applications- vol. ![]() In addition to these, one could also make a list of good books in analysis, theoretical CS, statistical mechanics but someone else should make those lists. Thanks to Yogeshwaran for many good suggestions that I have incorporated in making the list. It is not complete in any sense, because I lack knowledge of many sub-areas of probability and when there are multiple books covering the same material, I mention just one. Inspired by greater people than me (Landau, 't Hooft, etc.,) I made a list of basic material that aspiring probabilists may find useful. Suggested readings for students in probability ![]() ![]() And as Bud often said of his childhood to his daughter Ruthie, “How lucky can you get?”īut sadly, as the railroad yards shut down and Whistle Stop became a ghost town, nothing was left but boarded-up buildings and memories of a happier time. Together they ran the town’s popular Whistle Stop Cafe, known far and wide for its fun and famous fried green tomatoes. celebrates the bonds of family and friends-and the possibilities of recovery and renewal.”- The Free Lance–Starīud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop with his mother, Ruth, church-going and proper, and his Aunt Idgie, the fun-loving hell-raiser. ![]() A heartwarming novel about secrets of youth rediscovered, hometown memories, and the magical moments in ordinary lives, from the beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the “autobiography” of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa’s alternate selves. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner’s words, “gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce’s Dublin or Kafka’s Prague.” He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry.” Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquietįernando Pessoa was many writers in one. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. “I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. ![]() |