![]() ![]() The science-fiction thriller 65 will be released for regular digital purchase May 2 (after a premium digital rental and purchase run) and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD May 30 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The film has earned $208 million at the global box office. ![]() But things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Regé-Jean Page, the film, based on the classic role-playing game, follows a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers who undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic. ![]() The comedic action fantasy Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves arrives on 4K Ultra HD Steelbook, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD May 30. May 30 sees the arrival of such new Blu-ray and DVD releases as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, 65 and A Good Person. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Paramount Pictures photo) New DVDs and Blu-rays May 30 Include ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,’ ’65,’ ‘A Good Person’ ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "An invaluable and easily digestible account of the epic journey."-Booklist. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The cultural differences between the corps and Native Americans make for living drama that at times provokes laughter but more often is poignant and, at least once, tragic. ![]() Moulton blends the narrative highlights of the Lewis and Clark journals so that the voices of the enlisted men and of Native peoples are heard alongside the words of the captains. All their triumphs and terrors are here-the thrill of seeing the vast herds of bison on the plains the tensions and admiration in the first meetings with Indian peoples Lewis's rapture at the stunning beauty of the Great Falls the fear the captains felt when a devastating illness befell their Shoshone interpreter, Sacagawea the ordeal of crossing the Continental Divide the kidnapping and rescuing of Lewis’s dog, Seaman miserable days of cold and hunger and Clark's joy at seeing the Pacific. Following orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. ![]() ![]() ![]() Giving unparalleled insight into asexuality and asexual relationships, How To Be Ace shows the importance of learning to be happy and proud of who you are. ![]() 'Trigger warning: this book mentions bullying, anxiety, OCD. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality.'-Provided by publisher. How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual Rebecca Burgess 4.16 2,474 ratings578 reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. ![]() In this brave, hilarious and empowering graphic memoir, we follow Rebecca as they navigate a culture obsessed with sex – from being bullied at school and trying to fit in with friends, to forcing themselves into relationships and experiencing anxiety and OCD – before coming to understand and embrace their asexual identity. 'Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. Me though? I was only interested in comics.”Growing up, Rebecca assumes sex is just a scary new thing they will ‘grow into’ as they get older, but when they leave school, start working and do grow up, they start to wonder why they don’t want to have sex with other people. Giving unparalleled insight into asexuality and asexual relationships, How To Be Ace shows the importance of learning to be happy and proud of who you are. “When I was in school, everyone got to a certain age where they became interested in talking about only one thing: boys, girls and sex. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris and Vienna, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. Kafka falls in love Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. Kafka falls in love Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract and new drugs like coca. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Toshikazu Kawaguchis beautiful, moving story - translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot - explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold. ![]() In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafes time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimers, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. ![]() ![]() Now thoroughly alienated, McNamee digs into the issue, and fortuitously meets up with some fellow travelers who share his concern, and help him sharpen its focus. ![]() To McNamee’s shock, even still Facebook’s leaders duck and dissemble, viewing the matter as a public relations problem. Then there is the even more unsettling realization that Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are unable or unwilling to share his concerns, polite as they may be to his face.Īnd then comes the election of Donald Trump, and the emergence of one horrific piece of news after another about the malign ends to which the Facebook platform has been put. First there is the author’s dawning realization that the platform is being manipulated by some very bad actors. ![]() It’s a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. ZUCKED is McNamee’s intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world’s most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund’s bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. ![]() If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter. ![]() ![]() Often, these are the reviews that make me think critically about what I just read. Now, you need to know that my favorite thing to do after finishing a book I enjoyed is to go read the one-star reviews on GoodReads. There are other great characters, but these three are the POVs. The main players are Thea (a slave girl/woman), Arius (a gladiator), and Lepida Pollia (the villain and also a member of the middle-upper class). Mistress of Rome is a multiple POV book that covers the rule of Emperor Domitian from start to finish. ![]() Especially the ones I loathe.Īnd I just read a really good one – Mistress of Rome, by Kate Quinn.Ī Brief Aside – It was a tantalizing breath of fresh air to find a historical fiction book set in something other than World War 2.Īnyway! If you haven’t read it – THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD, TURN AWAY I tell you that because since that personal experience I now pay a LOT more attention to the villains in the books I read. It took awhile, but I eventually did round him out. ![]() The heroine overcame his dastardly plan (and looked heroic) and then he ran away only to show up later and try again. He showed up when it was convenient and caused trouble. The first draft of The Star of Time was plagued with this. I mean the cardboard cut-out that exists to make the hero look heroic. ![]() I’m not talking about the ones with weak motivation. I think we are all painfully familiar with the motivation-less villian. ![]() ![]() ![]() Toni Jordan fabricates an absorbing account around the existence of seven fragments that are all that remains of author Inga Karlson’s legendary second novel.Ĭaddie Walker, named for the primary character in Karlson’s Pulitzer winning first novel, All Has an End, visits an exhibit of the author’s life and work where she encounters Rachel Lehrer who quotes a line that does not appear on any of the fragments. but I felt the middle section the book dragged on and on, but I did enjoy the ending quite a bit. This made my enjoyment of the book less, I wanted more suspense and less personal stuff. While this book had a lot going on for it, I could not get into the main character, she made ridiculous decisions, and I just could not connect with her. I love dual timeline stories, they are by far one of my favourites. The book follows in a dual timeline, told in 1938 before the fire and 1986, the current timeline. ![]() ![]() Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for the opportunity to read an advance copy of this book in return for a review based upon my honest opinion.įor Caddie Walker, who is a super fangirl of famed author Inga Karlson, viewing the fragments of her last book, "The Days, The Minutes", which remained after the fire in 1938 took the life of the author and the rest of the book, is a dream come true but while meandering the display she meets an elderly lady who quoted words she know the author never had printed but she is sure are from her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Buy To The Lighthouse : Wordsworth Classics online, free home delivery. Her books, such as 'Mrs Dalloway', 'The Waves' and 'To the Lighthouse', with their stream-of-consciousness structure, have led her to be recognised as one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. To The Lighthouse : Wordsworth Classics by Virginia Woolf. AUTHOR: (Adeline) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer, whose innovative, experimental novels have had a lasting effect on the development of modern literature. res, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desi. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions. Introduction and notes by Bradbury, Dr Nicola ![]() ![]() When he shows an interest in her she is both flattered and thrilled and they forge a friendship and begin to spend time together. Through her letter we discover that teenage Marion had had a crush on Tom for some time, he was her best friend’s older brother and she had admired him from afar and spent many hours day dreaming about him. ![]() ![]() Patrick has had a catastrophic stroke and has come to live with Marion and Tom and it is this event which encourages to write down her memories, thoughts and feelings. The book opens in the present day, with Marion writing a letter about Tom, her relationship with him and by extension her relationship with Patrick. Set in both 1950s Brighton and the (almost) present day, this book examines what happens when a gay man is unable to be open about his sexuality, choosing instead to marry a woman to maintain a veneer of respectability. Tom, Patrick and Marion meet in 1950s Brighton and their lives collide with irreversible and terrible consequences. ![]() ![]() My Policeman by Bethan Roberts is a pretty wonderful and heart-wrenching tale of a love triangle between three people. ![]() |