![]() ![]() With no hope of quick rescue or backup investigators, Anna holds onto her sanity by wondering why anybody would commit a murder at the height of a firestorm. Somebody's interrupted Leonard Nims's training as crew boss by creeping into his form-fitting one-person shelter and stabbing him to death. ![]() Another routine assignment for National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon-doubling as medic and security for a firefighting camp fighting a blaze in California's Lassen Volcanic Park-turns into a nightmare when the snowstorm that promised relief from the flames instead whips them up into a firestorm, isolating Anna's spike camp and leaving two firefighters dead: one from the fire, a second from a knife in his back. ![]()
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![]() For the next two decades he lived and worked virtually unknown. In the early 1980s Leiter was faced with financial difficulties that forced the closure of his Fifth Avenue studio. His earliest photographs in black-and-white and color show an extraordinary affinity for the medium. His abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions have a painterly quality that stands out among the work of his New York School contemporaries. Leiter made an enormous and unique contribution to photography with a highly prolific period in New York City in the 1950s. His main subjects were street scenes and his small circle of friends. Eugene Smith, along with the photography exhibitions he saw in New York (particularly Henri Cartier-Bresson’s at the Museum of Modern Art in 1947), inspired him.īy 1948 Leiter had begun to experiment in color, sometimes using Kodachrome 35 mm film past its sell-by date. Leiter’s friendship with Pousette-Dart, and soon after with W. Shortly after his arrival he met the Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who was experimenting with photography. In 1946, when he was 22, he left the theological college he was attending in Cleveland and moved to New York City to pursue painting. Leiter’s interest in painting began in his late teens. ![]() ![]() The American artist Saul Leiter, the son of a rabbi and distinguished Talmudic scholar, was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. ![]() ![]() Yet MacLeod and her then-boyfriend, Christophe, see Paris differently: she as a typical expat he as an immigrant butcher. Scott Fitzgerald and sees herself in the same role of a struggling artist. She often reflects on the Lost Generation of Hemingway and F. Baguettes also play a large part of Parisian life, as do wine, cheese, and other pastries. ![]() She also searches for the perfect cup of chocolat chaud, but I won’t reveal that winner. ![]() Spoiler alert: she prefers the traditional vanille. MacLeod’s observations grant the reader an insider’s look into Paris, coupled with a non-native’s curiosity.įood is a huge part of Paris and MacLeod writes of the annual macaron day, and how this particular French pastry has evolved over the years. For consistency, her letters are mostly addressed to Áine, a long-term subscriber and friend. ![]() ![]() THE SETTING: MacLeod’s letters center on the changing seasons in Paris, from fairy lights in December to the explosion of bright flowers in the spring from the tourist-filled cafés in the summer to the changing leaves along the Champs-Élysées in autumn. ![]() ![]() ![]() When did you first realise you wanted to be a writer? From a fellow Bangladeshi woman, thank you for creating a space for us and writing a fierce Bangladeshi character, a story full of culture and representation.ġ. So before we get started with the interview, I just want to give a warm thank you to Tashie for being such a sweetheart when I reached out about this interview. T-minus twenty-eight days until everything returns to normal-but what if Karina no longer wants it to? Though Karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back. But Ace Clyde does everything right-he brings her coffee in the mornings, impresses her friends without trying, and even promises to buy her a dozen books (a week) if she goes along with his fake-dating facade. Pretending to date him? Out of the question. Tutoring the school’s resident bad boy was already crossing a line. ![]() Instead, one simple lie unravels everything. When her parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, Karina expects some peace and quiet. Keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules-even if it means sacrificing her dreams. ![]() ![]() ![]() So check out our list of the best sad films streaming now, get the tissues ready, and call us if you need anything. ![]() ![]() Hyperspecificity is what we were going for with this list of sad movies: A taxonomy of the particular kinds of sad, courtesy of your really emotionally healthy friends at Marie Claire. We’re talking Marley and Me, Manchester By the Sea, the first five minutes of Pixar’s Up-the kind of scenes guaranteed to lead to some heaving, ugly sobs. And then, of course, there are the all-time best sad movies, which you’ll find toward the bottom of the page. For example, a cry about a war movie (think Grave of the Fireflies or Sophie’s Choice) can lead to one kind of emotional state-contemplative, meditating on the inherent brutality of humanity-while a sad romance movie ( The Notebook, One Day) will lead to a very different set of feelings-wistfulness, swooning appreciation for the things that make life meaningful. The sad films below are listed by category so you can narrow down the search for what type of cry you’re looking to have. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along with 14 daily emails, there will be 3 live video sessions with bestselling author Ryan Holiday, one of the world’s foremost thinkers and writers on ancient philosophy and its place in everyday life. It’s a 14-day course that will equip you with the tools to live as vibrant and expansive a life as the Stoics. 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Jack and Annie are summoned once again to the fantasy realm of Camelot. ![]() Make storytime a little spookier this fall with the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time Every visit to the magic tree house leads to a time-travel adventure ![]() ![]() ![]() This is when he sets up a website and decides to eat himself to death and broadcast it for everyone to watch – if they can stand to watch it. Then, to top everything off, he finds out that he is being bullied online. When Butter notices that his only friend – who is also overweight – has started dropping pounds and getting healthy, Butter starts eating. Occasionally, he’ll gather up some gumption and decide to lose weight, but this usually only last a short while before he’s back at the big meals and snacks again. So much so that he hides away from everyone, preferring not to stand out rather than to make friends and enjoy his life.īutter is insecure about most everything. He is sure that his size is what everyone notices first. ![]() Why is this a problem? Besides the obvious health risk, Butter kind of hides behind his weight. His problem is that he weighs over 400 pounds. ![]() He’s smart and he can play the hell out of a saxophone. ![]() ![]() I’ve worked all over town, as it were, and sometimes people aren’t even aware that Kim Newman, the film critic, and Kim Newman, the novelist, are the same person. If you were to ask different people what my most notable work was, different folks would say the Anno Dracula series (novels under my own name), Nightmare Movies (non-fiction), Drachenfels (young adult fantasy written as Jack Yeovil), Life’s Lottery (odd semi-mainstream experimental novel) or various broadcasting things. ![]() Even before that, I loved Marvel comics, Dr Who, The Avengers, HG Wells, Biggles and the like, but when I caught the monster bug, which extended to the Aurora hobby kits and other arcana, I almost incidentally became a horror writer.Ī tough question for any writer – and probably tougher for me since I’ve worked in a variety of fields. Almost the next day, I wrote a one-page version of the story as a play and, ever since, I’ve been writing horror. ![]() ![]() What first attracted you to horror writing?Ī turning point in my life was seeing Dracula (1930) on TV circa 1970. ![]() ![]() ![]() ★ "In their debut, Mian and Mafaridik create a relatable and hilarious story. Omar's funny, relatable narrative is the perfect answer to the call for both mirrors and windows to fill bookshelves with diverse stories.Ī USBBY Outstanding International Book SelectionĪ Fuse #8 Great Middle Grade Novels of 2020 list Luckily, Omar's enormous imagination and goofy family help him get through life's ups and downs. That is, until a Big Mean Bully named Daniel makes every day a nightmare! Daniel even tells Omar that all Muslims are going to be kicked out of the country. What if the work is too hard or the kids are mean or the teacher is a zombie alien?!īut when Omar makes a new best friend, things start looking up. Omar and his family have just moved, and he is NOT excited about starting at a new school. ![]() Welcome to the imaginative brain of Omar! Description The first book in the exciting middle-grade series starring a Muslim boy with a huge imagination-now in paperback! ![]() |