![]() ![]() It is also developing Underground Knowledge into a TV series. The Morcans’ production company Morcan Motion Pictures has a number of feature films in early development, including adaptations of Silent Fear, Into the Americas and White Spirit. An additional non-fiction title, Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories, was written in collaboration with Holocaust survivors to document the genocide. ![]() ![]() They also have several series on the market including The Orphan Trilogy, an international thriller series, the globetrotting action-romance series The World Duology, and the controversial non-fiction franchise The Underground Knowledge Series. The father-and-son team's published books include the new release horror Silent Fear (A novel inspired by true crimes) and the bestselling historical adventures White Spirit and Into the Americas. A former journalist and newspaper editor, he regularly writes in collaboration with his son James Morcan, and their books are published by Sterling Gate Books. New Zealand novelist and screenwriter Lance Morcan is a prolific author with more than 20 published fiction and non-fiction books to his credit as well as several screenplay adaptations of his work. ![]()
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![]() The play discusses the fantasy of ‘pleasant life’ created by white America that Lincoln and Booth fail to be a part of. The struggle for power is seen in this study as a means of reconstructing one’s identity as such, power struggle and identity becomes conflictual. ![]() This theoretical position provides the conceptual praxis that this study maintains. At the core of the analysis is the theoretical backdrop of New Historicism. This study deconstructs the leading Western discourse of power, brings in different discourses of power, and demonstrates that power does not only emanate from the top. This is because, they see power as something which can only be handled by people from the top. ![]() Western discourses of power and identity have confirmed its insufficiency in the creation of peace, socio-political order and justice. In her play Topdog/Underdog, the rebuilding of identity for African-Americans is pursued, raised and enacted through power relations. Experimental Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks, is an African-American who has added to the reconstruction of African-American identity through power struggle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rebecca Gibel does a fantastic job narrating the story. I make long distance trips quiet often and enjoy listening to a book while driving. After reading the book initially, I decided to download the audio version. ![]() My personal favorite being Hysan Dax from house Libra. Meeting many people from each of the houses. Centered around 16 year old Rhoma Grace from the constellation Cancer, Zodiac takes you on a whirlwind tour through the Zodiac Galaxy. Romina Russell creates this entire universe of different worlds and characters that are truly unique. ![]() Needless to say once I started reading it I couldn't stop. I originally purchased the book on my Kindle just a few days after its release on Amazon. As an amateur astronomer, when I saw the cover for Zodiac it immediately caught my attention. There's very few stories that really capture my full attention these days. ![]() ![]() ![]() To translate is to risk understanding better than others that the truth about a word is not single, but double, even triple, quadruple. To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large. ![]() To translate is to betray at the borders, it's to cheat, it's to trade one sentence for another. And then at the end, a book translated from its original language states 'To translate is never simple. The book is translated, and throughout the book translation occurs for Alfa to be able to understand. I think what particularly intrigues me about At Night All Blood Is Black though is the notion of translation. I didn't particularly enjoy the gruesome descriptions of war and violence, but I did enjoy the history hidden within - is this a good thing or not? I don't know! I'm not sure whether I'm giving At Night All Blood Is Black 4 stars because I enjoyed reading it, or because I find the subject matter and themes at play super interesting. ![]() ![]() ![]() He left in 2002 with his masters degree, shaking the dust from his feet and vowing never to return. However, Pat learned that he loved to teach. In 2000 Pat went to grad school for English literature. Through all of this he continued to work on his novel. He also began writing a satirical advice column which he continues to this day: The College Survivial Guide. He studied six different martial arts, practiced improv comedy, learned how to pick locks, and became a skilled lover of women. ![]() He also began writing a book.įor the next seven years Pat studied anthropology, philosophy, eastern religions, history, alchemy, parapsychology, literature, and writing. ![]() In 1993 he quit pretending he knew what he wanted to do with his life, changed his major to "undecided," and proceeded to study whatever amused him. In 1991 he started college in order to pursue a career in chemical engineering, then he considered clinical psychology. Most of Pat's adult life has been spent in the University Wisconsin Stevens Point. He also role-played and wrote terrible stories about elves. His hobbies included reading a novel or two a day and giving relationship advice to all his friends despite the fact that he had never so much as kissed a girl. In high-school Pat was something of a class clown. Throughout his formative years they encouraged him to do his best, gave him good advice, and were no doubt appropriately dismayed when he failed to live up to his full potential. It all began when Pat Rothfuss was born to a marvelous set of parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() True to the romance stories we love, however, there are circumstances that keep them apart and they must work to bury the emotions that surge. Soon enough, they find themselves creating music together as a connection also begins to build between them. Every night he played his guitar across the courtyard of their apartment complex, the sounds curling in the wind, reaching her and inspiring her to pour lyrics down on paper. She had never met Ridge until that moment, but she had heard him. ![]() When she discovers her boyfriend and her roommate are having an affair (on her birthday no less!), she unexpectedly finds herself staying at the apartment of her neighbor, Ridge. Sydney Blake, our female protagonist, has a good life. "Are you in the mood to make beautiful music together?" 1 New York Times and USA TODAY best-selling author Colleen Hoover and singer/songwriter Griffin Peterson have created an unforgettable and innovative experience, allowing the reader to feel the story on more than one dimension. Yes! This book has an accompanying soundtrack! The duo of No. Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover is more than an epic romance. Reveling in the high of a book so perfectly done that I feel like calling everyone on my phone list and demanding that they read it so we can talk about it endlessly, tossing ohmygods and canyoubelievethats all over the place. Every now and then a book comes along that just leaves me breathless. ![]() ![]() ![]() Virgin River Character summary:īelieve it or not, there are different characters in every single one of these books! This makes the next book even more exciting than the last. It’s hard to believe that the books are publishing as many as 20 right now, but readers just keep asking for more books. ![]() Perhaps what started the significance of the whole series were the first four books Virgin River, Shelter Mountain, Whispering Rock, and A Virgin River Christmas. She has been writing the series since 2007, and the books seem to be growing in popularity every year. ![]() Written by Robyn Carr, the number of books in the series is now going into the 20’s. The Virgin River book series are a series of books based on the fictional town of Virgin River, containing only 600 people. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Is this all the result of only chocolate? Or is some more sinister force at work? The local priest suspects the worst, and his suspicions are reinforced by his awareness that Vivianne opened her shop on Shrove Tuesday-and thus has been tempting the entire parish from its Lenten austerities for the past six weeks. Elderly crones find themselves remembering long- forgotten loves shy young couples work up the nerve to break the ice. What inspired Vivianne Rocher to move to Lansquenet with her daughter Anouk and to open a chocolate boutique is never explained, but her effect on the populace is profound and immediate: the grim little town and its sniping inhabitants are transformed through the magic of Vivianne’s confections into an almost surreal assembly of sensualists, each somehow discovering in bonbons the key to happiness. A hamlet straight out of Flaubert, Lansquenet is filled with busybodies who have nothing better to do with their days than spy on one another, until two new arrivals provide fresh grist for the mill. The townspeople of Lansquenet live in the present day, but the patterns of their lives were established long before they were born-and change very little from year to year. A first novel that rather cloyingly describes the transformations that overtake the residents of a small French village when a mysterious stranger and her daughter arrive and open a chocolate shop. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hanks: This week in practice we have bounced back and we want to prove that we can play with anybody. Question: Does that give you momentum going into this week and facing No. Last weekend we played well and got a win and hopefully that will put us back on track. I think it’s just getting used to each other and learning our system. ![]() ![]() We have struggled in the beginning and had some losses that should not have happened because we know we’re better than that. Hanks: We have a lot of new players and had a really good preseason. Question: How would you describe the season thus far? Hanks, a native of Hummelstown, Pa., recently sat down with to talk about the season, how she has grown as a player, her favorite class at UVa and what she likes to do for fun. Redshirt freshman Elizabeth Hanks and the Virginia field hockey team continue Atlantic Coast Conference play at 5 p.m. Virginia Sports Radio Network - Listen Live.Virginia Sports Properties- Sponsorship.Academics and Student-Athlete Development.Show schedule list Open search Open Mobile Menu ![]() ![]() In particular, his compositions often employed skewed vantage points and perspectives, making his subjects seem a little uncanny, or strange. Wyeth's Realism, with its meticulous attention to detail, was not purely documentary.Later still, Wyeth became an American legend, and a touchstone for younger painters who have returned to realism to probe various issues confronting today's society. ![]() Wyeth refused to change his style and continued painting the rural life he had always known. ![]() ![]() While much beloved by a popular audience and, for a time, the critical establishment, Wyeth's reputation declined in the 1960s, as some felt his paintings did not keep up with the times and were not relevant to a contemporary culture that was experiencing various upheavals. While famous for his realist depictions, Wyeth's compositions often carry a sense of the uncanny, which led some critics to call him a Magic Realist. Wyeth rendered scenes of his everyday life in rural Pennsylvania and Maine, landscapes, and portraits with exacting detail, working primarily in watercolor and tempera instead of the more typical oil or acrylic. Andrew Wyeth, one of America's best-known Realist painters of the 20 th century, created canvases imbued with the mysteriousness of the real world, thus challenging traditional notions of reality. ![]() |