A HBO/BBC television series based on the novels was broadcast between November 2019 and February 2023. New Line Cinema released a film adaptation of Northern Lights, The Golden Compass, in 2007. The London Royal National Theatre staged a two-part adaptation of the trilogy in 2003–2004. The trilogy has attracted controversy for its criticism of religion. It functions in part as a retelling and inversion of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, with Pullman commending humanity for what Milton saw as its most tragic failing, original sin. The fantasy elements include witches and armoured polar bears the trilogy also alludes to concepts from physics, philosophy, and theology. Īlthough His Dark Materials has been marketed as young adult fiction, and the central characters are children, Pullman wrote with no target audience in mind. In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass. It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes. His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995 published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).
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Explorers Marquette and Joliet discovered waters so pristine in 1684 that they thought that they had at long last discovered the mythical Northwest Passage to Asia. Until the advent of the industrial revolution, the Great Lakes- Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Erie- were self contained and held the majority of the world's fresh water. Dan Egan in his Pulitzer finalist The Death and Life of the Great Lakes has exposed how science and history have wrought change on the once cleanest, freshest bodies of water in the world. While zebra mussels are only one issue affecting the future of the Great Lakes today, the species is hardly the only living being or environmental change that could affect the future of the Great Lakes in the century to come. Lake Michigan is part of the Great Lakes, the largest freshwater source in the world, and to me, the water still tastes crystal clear, until this past summer when it did not, and I reluctantly joined her in drinking filtered water. For years my mother has refused to drink tap water claiming that zebra mussels have affected the taste of her water supply. A breakdown of the biggest emotion-related writing problems and how to overcome them.Body language cues, thoughts, and visceral responses for 130 emotions that cover a range of intensity from mild to severe, providing innumerable options for individualizing a character’s reactions. When showing our characters’ feelings, we often use the first idea that comes to mind, and they end up smiling, nodding, and frowning too much. If you need inspiration for creating characters’ emotional responses that are personalized and evocative, this ultimate show-don’t-tell guide for emotion can help. One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling way. The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers” and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded as a Second Edition that includes 55 new entries! In a 1968 essay for the Saturday Evening Post about the making of the film, Capote wrote: "All art is composed of selected detail, either imaginary, or … a distillation of reality." He could have been speaking of Miller's AI images. When a film of Capote's book was first made in 1967, Capote insisted that director Richard Brooks film at the very house where the Clutters had been murdered. Capote spent months following the case and trials of Perry Smith and Robert Hickock, who were convicted of murdering the family and put to death. In 2005, he made a film version of the 1966 Truman Capote classic "In Cold Blood" for which he received a best director Academy Award nomination.Ĭapote's groundbreaking nonfiction novel chronicles the aftermath of the Clutter family murders in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas. "The emergence of AI has brought us to the precipice of imagination-defying transformations and there do not seem to be any adults in the room," he said.Ĭuriously, Miller's exhibition evokes another one of his films in a roundabout way. Speaking to ArtNet last month, Miller said he wasn't sure what to think of the technology. John Bradshaw is a well-respected primary figure in the contemporary self-help movement, and was elected by his peers of professional therapists as ‘One of the 100 Most Influential Writers on Emotional Health in the Twentieth Century.’ Over 2.5 million professionals and laypersons have attended John Bradshaw’s workshops, lectures, and speeches. This series, HOMECOMING: The Inner Child Workshop, is one of many live recordings of John Bradshawincluding lectures, seminars and workshops, that can be found in our extensive library. This is one of the most powerful workshops you will ever participate in. Workshop participants explore their childhood relationships with their parenting sources and siblings and they identify obstructions in their current lives that may result from those relationships. Through a series of lectures, meditations and group exercises, John Bradshaw helps you access childhood memories and heal painful wounds left by unmet developmental needs. In this wonderful and enlightening workshop, HOMECOMING: The Inner Child Workshop, John Bradshawleads participants in a journey of self-discovery or their child within. John Bradshaw has received National acclaim for his inner child workshop and has help heal millions. John Bradshaw has touched and forever changed millions of lives through his best-selling books, seminars, workshops, and seven widely acclaimed PBS series. Psychologist, philosopher, counselor, theologian, and teacher, John Bradshaw, is also an Emmy nominated talk show host. LIFE CHANGING 7 1/2 Hour Intensive Workshop My chief candidate would be the poet and poem from our last post, Emily Bronte and Bronte’s poem “Hope.” If you read and listened to “Hope” in our last post you’ll know that “Hope” isn’t a hopeful poem at all. If it’s a quote, she’s referencing someone else. Based on Emily’s unusual but internally consistent style, I don’t believe that she’s using quotes to indicate hope as concept, as an ideal (she capitalized words to indicate that sort of thing). The poem starts off with a clear indication of reference, by putting its first word in quotes. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” But this poem from Dickinson, one of her best-known, could be engaging in something we could call that. We don’t usually associate Emily Dickinson with metapoetry or with the widespread sampling and recontextualizing such as found in T. “Evanovich’s comedic timing and pacing are evident on every page. “Evanovich’s comedic timing and pacing are evident on every page.” -Daily Republic books co-authored with Janet Evanovich: Wicked Charms and Curious Minds. Evanovich fans will find this closer in style to the Stephanie Plum novels.” - Booklist Robert Christopher Phoef Sutton (born September 11, 1958) is an American writer and. A plan so sinister that only a megalomaniac could think it up, and only the unlikely duo of the irrepressibly charming Emerson Knight and the tenacious Riley Moon can stop it. Through the streets of Washington, D.C., and down into the underground vault of the Federal Reserve in New York City, an evil plan is exposed. What starts off as an inquiry about missing bank funds in the Knight account leads to inquiries about a missing man, missing gold, and a life-and-death race across the country. At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. Good thing he’s also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he’d probably be homeless. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of mysteries featuring Emerson Knight and Riley Moon, a dynamic duo with instant and undeniable chemistry.Įmerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. The New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Kayla Miller has woven together a heartfelt and insightful story about navigating friendships, leaning on family, and learning to take the stage in the most important role of all. Any act Olive clicks with everyone in the fifth gradeuntil one day she doesn’t. With the performance drawing closer by the minute, will Olive be able to find her own place in the show before the curtain comes up? From The New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Kayla Miller comes a graphic novel about friendship and finding where you 'click' in middle school, perfect for fans of Smile and Real Friends. When a school variety show leaves Olive stranded without an act to join, she begins to panic, wondering why all her friends have already formed their own groups. Olive "clicks" with everyone in the fifth grade-until one day she doesn't. Here's how they solicited the first Click graphic novel…įrom The New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Kayla Miller comes a graphic novel about friendship and finding where you "click" in middle school, perfect for fans of Smile and Real Friends. Kayla Miller's Click Gets Graphic Novel Spin-Off With Kristina Luu Elizabeth Bennett at the Transatlantic Agency represented Kayla Miller and Jeffrey Canino, and Britt Siess at Martin Literary & Media Management represented Kristina Luu. The first book of this Click spin-off series will be published in autumn next year. This spin-off series, will feature Beth and Chanda, two friends of Click's lead character, in their own stories. Mary Wilcox at HMH has acquired world rights to the first two books in a new graphic novel series written co-written by Kayla Miller and Jeffrey Canino, and drawn by Kristina Luu. “Jenna Lamia.does a pitch-perfect version of Kyra.”. “From the opening of The Chosen One, the audiobook for which she won her recent Audie, listeners will identify with Jenna's well-rounded portrayal of the protagonist, Kyra, a young woman trapped in a cult.” -AudioFile “Narrator Jenna Lamia's searing, poignant performance will stay with listeners long after the book ends as she draws listeners in and never lets go, making them feel as if Kyra is living with them as they hear her story.Outstanding.” -Sound Commentary “Jenna Lamia strikes just the right note between innocence and a growing sense of rebellion in her characterization of Kyra.” -Kirkus Reviews “Narrator Jenna Lamia brings passion and dignity to Kyra, her sisters, and even the strict elders who want all the girls for themselves.Lamia's voices sounds believably young and brings surprising gravity to this ripped-from-the-headlines story.” -AudioFile “With dramatic pauses and emotive voice, Jenna Lamia delivers a captivating read, making the listener yearn for more.” -Parents' Choice Awards, Parents' Choice 2009 Recommended Award Winner "“ powerful performance of THE CHOSEN ONE brings its 13-year-old protagonist to vivid life.” -AudioFile Jamie Lloyd directs with design by Soutra Gilmour lighting design by Jon Clark sound and composition by Ben and Max Ringham fight movement by Kate Waters casting by Stuart Burt CDG additional movement by Polly Bennett costume supervision by Anna Josephs props supervision by Lily Molgaard associate direction by Rupert Hands assistant direction by Nari Blair-Mangat and associate design by Rachel Wingate.įierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if only he could win the heart of his true love. Īlongside James McAvoy (Cyrano de Bergerac), the cast will feature Michele Austin (Ragueneau), Adam Best (Le Bret), Sam Black (Armand), Nari Blair-Mangat (Valvert), Vaneeka Dadhria (Beatboxer), Adrian Der Gregorian (Montfleury), Tom Edden (De Guiche), Eben Figueiredo (Christian), Carla Harrison-Hodge (Denise), Mika Onyx Johnson (Usher), Nima Taleghani (Ligniere), Brinsley Terence (Theatre Owner), Jon Furlong (Annoying Person), Tazmyn-May Gebbett (Minder), Joseph Langdon (Jean-Paul), Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Marie-Louise) and Evelyn Miller (Roxane). The production will then visit Theatre Royal Glasgow (18 – 26 March) before completing its run in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), 5 April –. James McAvoy will star in The Jamie Lloyd Company production at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London from 3 February to 12 March. |