![]() ![]() Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world?įilmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.ĭirected by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. namely, a modicum of hope for the future” “Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors “Klein and Lewis paint a picture of a post-fossil-fueled, post-capitalist future that seems not only within reach,īut like a place where we actually want to live” “The realization that a solution is possible, well, that changes everything” ![]() ![]() Kumi Naidoo, Former Director at Greenpeace International “If you care about justice you must see this.” “Purposely unsettling… Ultimately encouraging” “A film that brings our peril into focus and what we might learn from despair.” ![]()
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![]() Agent: Suzie Townsend, New Leaf Literary & Media. ![]() Schaeffer’s worldbuilding is economical and inventive, and snappy dialogue, breezy first-person-present narration, and a quirky, ethnically diverse cast add levity, counterbalancing ruminations on fear. ![]() Despite his heroics, Ness is too frightened to trust Cy-until subsequent events force them to team up. But her ferry explodes on the job, and Ness is rescued by the tragedy’s only other survivor: 19-year-old Cy, who recently woke up as a vampire. ![]() Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. After Ness’s nerves cause her to botch yet another work assignment, she volunteers for the Friends’ onerous weekly mail run to avoid expulsion. City of Nightmares By: Rebecca Schaeffer Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. Now 19 and struggling to survive, Ness-terrified of becoming, or falling prey to, a Nightmare-belongs to the Friends of the Restful Soul, a cult dedicated to helping those affected by Nightmares that provides room and board to initiates. ![]() After her sister neglected to take dream-prevention drugs before bed, she turned into a giant spider and ate the girls’ father, forcing then 11-year-old Ness to flee. Dream situations manifest as real-life horrors upon waking in this rollicking fantasy adventure from Schaeffer (the Market of Monsters trilogy), set in the Gotham-esque city of Newham. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Scott, an inventor from San Francisco, claimed he was the first to develop a death ray that would destroy human life and bring down planes at a distance. Such armaments are technically known as directed-energy weapons. While based in fiction, research into energy-based weapons inspired by past speculation has contributed to real-life weapons in use by modern militaries sometimes called a sort of "death ray", such as the United States Navy and its Laser Weapon System (LaWS) deployed in mid-2014. In 1957, the National Inventors Council was still issuing lists of needed military inventions that included a death ray. ![]() Scott, Erich Graichen and others claimed to have invented it independently. Around that time, notable inventors such as Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Harry Grindell Matthews, Edwin R. The death ray or death beam was a theoretical particle beam or electromagnetic weapon first theorized around the 1920s and 1930s. A Martian tripod firing its deadly heat ray, from H G Wells' The War of the Worlds ![]() ![]() ![]() While Feeney doesn’t number the chapters and many chapters have duplicate names, this study guide assigns consecutive numbers to each chapter to help keep track of the ongoing narrative. Characters drink alcohol and take prescription sleeping pills. ![]() This novel uses minimal foul language and contains no graphic sexuality or violence except for references to past violence, death, murder, and animal abuse. A former writer and editor for the BBC’s news and fiction development departments, Feeney brings her skills in pacing and engaging to her novels. In addition to being a Book of the Month Club Selection and a Fall 2021 Publisher’s Weekly Top Ten Mystery, the novel was a Summer 2021 Crime Reads Most Anticipated Crime Book. ![]() The screen rights to Rock Paper Scissors, like two of Feeney’s previous books, were picked up within a year of its publication, in this case by Netflix to develop a series. Intricately written in short chapters with multiple narrators and points of view, the book is labyrinthian, containing surprises as well as some false detours en route to its conclusion. Like her previous thrillers, this mystery contains multiple plot twists that play on assumptions about who the heroes and the villains are. Feeney conceived the plot during two winter trips to remote Scottish highland sites much like the book’s fictional Blackwater Chapel. ![]() Rock Paper Scissors, published by Flatiron Books in 2021, is the fourth novel by British author Alice Feeney. ![]() ![]() ![]() For during his brief absence, his government has sent his paidhi-successor, Deana Hanks-representative of a dangerous archconservative faction on Mospheira who hate the atevi. ![]() ![]() But his sudden and premature return to the mainland is cause for more than mere physical discomfort. With the situation fast becoming critical, Bren Cameron, the brilliant, youngpaidhi to the court of the atevi is recalled from Mospheira where he has just undergone surgery. The second novel in Cherryh's Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences… Nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the atevi, it unexpectedly returns to orbit ovenhead, threatening the stability of both atevi and human governments. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But it is important to note that he gave his advice not because GDP growth, inflation and interest rates do not matter for your stock returns, but because he does not believe it is possible to predict it. Warren Buffett has taught us not to focus too much on macro indicators and look at individual businesses instead. And this is not the forecast made by Paul Volcker in his book. It is, of course, not a forecast that I would like to make. Falling confidence and rising expectations of a continued rise in prices (regardless of a particular reason, which could be a fiscal stimulus, supply bottlenecks, labour shortage, logistics etc.) are the key ingredients for higher inflation in the future. The train, probably, has already left the station. ![]() ![]() I think that a period of falling interest rates over the past 30+ years has been accompanied by a strong belief in the general soundness of the financial system in key markets, particularly the US.īut things are likely to be changing now. That trust takes time to build, and once it is lost, it is challenging to restore it. The health of any financial system is based on the trust of its participants in that system and its regulator. My biggest takeaway from the book is that inflation is driven not so much by macroeconomic factors (labour, demand, commodity prices etc.), but rather is a psychological phenomenon. ![]() ![]() ![]() *"I'm addicted to Tina Folsom's books! The Scanguards series is one of the hottest things to happen to vampire romance. This short novella of approximately 60 pages is over 50% longer than the 2013 anthology version. Some character names, settings, and events have been changed, and several chapters have been added to this new 2015 version. Previously published as part of an anthologyThis is a longer version of Mortal Wish, which first appeared in the anthology “Summer on Seeker’s Island” in 2013. ![]() Well-loved Scanguards characters-Gabriel, Zane, and Amaury-will make an appearance in this short novella. Jake is first mentioned in Quinn’s Undying Rose. Will her wish be granted, or will this be her last Christmas? Where does this novella fit into the Scanguards timeline?It takes place several years before Samson’s story kicks off the Scanguards Vampires series in San Francisco with Samson’s Lovely Mortal. She wishes for a miracle to cure her of a terminal illness. Then he meets Claire Culver, a woman whose trip to the island is her last hope. As a vampire, he’s tired of the lonely and unfulfilling life he’s been living. ![]() Jake Stone comes to an island with a magical spring to have his only wish in life fulfilled: to be mortal again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall love the idea but am ultimately not impressed with the execution. The problem here is that this is a first book and doesn't have the already weighted fan base or the internal back story to support it. ![]() This book seems to be trying to capitalize on the recent trend in things like movies of splitting sequels/final installments into as many money grabbing parts as possible. However if it was an intentional parallel than kudos to the author for the meta-nod. I'd love to believe that the unfinished-ness was an intentional play to recreate the nightly story telling and the dawn, but I don't think there was a strong enough nod to the original (She told what 2 stories in this?) to make that work. And don't even get me started on the quality of the dialog. There was quite a bit left hanging or unexplained: the carpet and the teacher, the significance of the falcon, the insignias, the sort of attempt at magical realism but not, the curse. ![]() There were parts that were quite promising, and it was an interesting premise, but I rather felt like it was unfinished (and I don't just mean the giant 'where the hell is the rest' cliff hanger). Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to hav. A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by 'A Thousand and One Nights' Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. *minor spoilers* I picked this up because of all the buzz recently, but was really rather disappointed. Book Descriptions for series: A Wrath & the Dawn Novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New Netflix drama ‘All The Bright Places’ takes a look at the lasting impact of young love. “Suicidal? You can say it,” Finch tells Violet early in their relationship. But this is where Finch comes in – he balances her sadness with infectious charisma, determined to lift her spirits without trivialising any pain. Behind thick circular glasses her mournful eyes stare aimlessly, her shoulders stay hunched. ![]() Fanning, usually so reliable for spreading optimism and light, carries grief convincingly. The story follows Violet Markey (Elle Fanning) and Theodore Finch (Detective Pikachu‘s Justice Smith), two teenagers who meet at a crucial moment in each other’s lives. Finch finds Violet two years to the day after her sister was killed in a car accident. There are a lot of common markers – boy does indeed meet girl, things start off rocky, and so on – but the film anchors itself in a sober openness that complications do occur, and they’re absolutely normal. ![]() These things can (and do) contribute to a successful relationship, but not exclusively – and not always at the expense of anything more colourful.Īll The Bright Places prides itself on showing the complexities of love. A common problem in Young Adult fiction adaptations is the feeling that characters are chained to very basic black-and-white personalities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Reply" is the longest and most realistic. It's a cute story, well-conveyed, and ends happily for everyone.Īlso: introduced me to the band Ellegarden. As he spends time with Usui he develops feelings for him. Taking pity on the shy Usui, he decides to help him get together with Nakaya. Poised Kugo sees a quieter classmate watching him and his hot, popular friend Nakaya. There is one use of the word fuck to upset parents who think their kids don't know that word already otherwise this would be perfect for a YA anthology. "Emotion Spectrum" in contrast is an almost totally PG high school love story. This feels like it ought to be the first half of a longer story. One thing I did find unusual was that it ended ambiguously, with the narc apparently rejecting his love interest until he was willing to find an honest career. The titular "NightS" is kind of like a summer action blockbuster, a not terribly convincing set-up with drug trafficking and law enforcement pursuit functioning mainly as a backdrop for hot actors characters bantering and having Hollywood sex (you know, the kind where everyone in in sync as to what they want, gets out of their clothes gracefully, is toned and flexible, and none of the poses look weird to the observer). They differ in length, genre, and rating. Other than the m/m element these short stories don't have a ton in common. Kou Yoneda's art is excellent, especially when it comes to subtle expressions. Except for the first story, these are ordinary people in realistic situations. ![]() |