![]() ![]() ![]() Keep your friends close, the old adage says. A Haunting in Venice is an upcoming American supernatural thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh, based on Halloween Party by Agatha Christie.The film is a sequel to Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022). Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead. . Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps, just as a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. For this vacation, theyve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlandsthe perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. ![]() ![]() The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands-the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Garcias live in fear until the day both parents are picked up his Pa is taken to jail and his Ma to a detention center. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents show up unsuccessfully seeking his Pa at his New York City bodega. Mateo’s life is turned upside down the day U.S. 13 & up)Ī Mexican American boy takes on heavy responsibilities when his family is torn apart. A selection of horror tropes-from spooky dolls to small-town secrets-fails to come to life, and the final healing of rifts in the girls’ family seems contrived. The plotting, however, is less effective. ![]() Despite their realistic shortcomings, both primary and secondary characters are unique and satisfyingly complex. Strong characterization will draw readers in. Worried that her sibling is going mad, Alexis is moved to accept the help of two unlikely candidates-an unflappable cutie who continues his pursuit of her despite her initial rebuff and a cheerleader who has recognized that Kasey’s oddness is not mental illness, but a case of supernatural possession. Her parents are so self-absorbed they haven’t noticed that their younger daughter, Kasey, is exhibiting increasingly bizarre behavior, including an obsession with dolls that has alienated her peers. Pink-haired high-school misfit Alexis has built up a shield of disdain to the point that she is essentially friendless. A nasty ghost, a photography-savvy teen and her stressed, uncommunicative family form the backbone of this all-too-predictable, though at times engaging, mystery. ![]() ![]() Her heroes will face monsters intent on destroying them from every side-including the monsters within. ![]() ![]() In This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab creates a gritty, seething metropolis, one worthy of being compared to Gotham and to the four versions of London in her critically acclaimed fantasy for adults, A Darker Shade of Magic. But Kate discovers August's secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who's just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. ![]() One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent-but he's one of the monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city-a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. The first of two books, This Savage Song is a must-have for fans of Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor. ![]() In this dark urban fantasy from acclaimed author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains-and friends or enemies-with the future of their home at stake. #1 New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year There's no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Angry, hurt, and deeply confused, Mia refuses to admit that a desire for Sam still burns in her heart. He is puzzled when she greets him with icy indifference-for the chemistry between them is still sizzling and true. As the new owner of the island's only hotel, Sam has returned to Three Sisters with hopes of winning back Mia's affections. ![]() ![]() But then one day he fled Three Sisters Island, leaving her lost in memories of the magic they shared-and determined to live on her own. Years ago, she and Sam Logan shared an incredible bond built on passion, legend, and fate. Mia Devlin knows what it's like to love with your whole heart-and then watch your love walk away. Mia will have to confront the greatest challenge of her life: she and Sam must join forces to win over darkness forever.īook Synopsis In the conclusion to her acclaimed Three Sisters Island trilogy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts masterfully evokes the quaint charm of New England, weaving a spellbinding tale of true love-and sheer magic. ![]() But this is not the only challenge from the past. One decade later, Sam returns with the intention of recovering his old love. But one day he fled from the Three Sisters Island leaving her sunken in memories and resignation. Many years back, she was tied to Sam Logan by a triangle of passion, legend and destiny. About the Book Mia Devlin knows too well what it means to love with all her heart and see the love of her life leave. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eve and Alex become entrapped at the local mall, while Kevin is stuck at the police station with Jay's father, Sheriff Connor Hiesel, and Adrian. A thick mist soon sweeps through town, something deadly inside of which that begins killing people. Alex is raped at a party, and her best friend Adrian tells her it was Jay Hiesel, the quarterback of the football team and the boy she had a crush on. Kevin Copeland and his wife Eve live in a small town with their daughter Alex. ![]() Eventually, people begin to see apparitions in the mist from their past, fears, or guilt that help or kill them depending on how they react.Ĭast and characters Main The residents of the town soon learn the situation is even more precarious as unexplained anomalies and phenomena in the mist attack and kill most who enter it, trapping several groups of people in a shopping mall, a church, and a hospital. Spike later cancelled the series on September 27 the same year.Īn unexplained mist slowly envelops the town of Bridgeville, Maine, creating an almost impenetrable barrier to visibility. The series aired for one 10-episode season on Spike from June 22 to August 24, 2017. It is based on the 1980 horror novella of the same name by author Stephen King. The Mist is an American science fiction- horror thriller television series developed by Christian Torpe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Following Ugandan independence, the richest residents of Kampala moved into the regal and sprawling houses perched on top of Kololo Hill – these were mostly Ugandan Asians, who were brought into the country in the 1890s to build a railroad. As well as being a familial tale of secrets, trust and togetherness, it’s main thread of plot stems from political and post-colonial consequences that lead to the historical events that the book follows closely. This beautifully woven intergenerational tale begins with Kololo Hill, a proud area in Kampala, Uganda where the richest Ugandan Asians live boosted above the rest of the city. ![]() ![]() Will they all make it to safety in Britain and will they be given refuge if they do?Īnd all the while, a terrible secret about the expulsion hangs over them, threatening to tear the family apart.įrom the green hilltops of Kampala, to the terraced houses of London, Neema Shah’s extraordinarily moving debut Kololo Hill explores what it means to leave your home behind, what it takes to start again, and the lengths some will go to protect their loved ones. But violence is escalating in Kampala, and people are disappearing. For his mother, Jaya, it means saying goodbye to the house that has been her home for decades. They must take only what they can carry, give up their money and never return.įor Asha and Pran, married a matter of months, it means abandoning the family business that Pran has worked so hard to save. A devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety days. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg – Facebook COO and one of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women in Business – draws on her own experience of working in some of the world's most successful businesses and looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale. Women hold just 20 percent of seats in parliaments globally, and in the world of big business, a meagre eighteen of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women.
![]() ![]() There’s a chapter too on genes and how they can determine colours. ![]() ![]() Horse and Pony Colours: Which would you choose? will tell you. There’s a chapter too on horses’ markings – can you tell the difference between a blaze, a strip and a snip? Have you heard how horses change colour? Horse and Pony Colours: Which one would you choose by Lesley Lodge () on. There’s Roy Rogers’ Trigger, the talking horse, Mister Ed, The Lone Ranger’s Silver, the white horse Shadowfax from Lord of the Rings – so clever he didn’t need a saddle or bridle – and many more. ![]() Colourful horses from the film world, the racing world and the more everyday world appear in this book. There are Palominos and Cremellos, Piebalds and Skewbalds, Blue roans and Strawberry roans, Sorrels and Chestnuts, Buckskins and Appaloosas and many, many more. Then you can pick your favourite colour for your favourite imaginary horse or pony – and maybe make a second and third choice just for fun! If you had the chance to choose the perfect horse or pony with the colour you’d really, really like, what colour would you choose? There are an amazing fifty colours to choose from! This book – with colour photos – will tell you about all the horse and pony colours and their combinations and give you some examples. Horse and Pony Colours – Which Would You Choose?Ī good horse is never a bad colour. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her New York Times review of the exhibition, critic Roberta Smith claims, “The show could have used an area for visitors to sit and study the catalog - there’s space for it.” Seeing and reading the pages in the gallery certainly make one want to spend more time with Basquiat’s writing, and Princeton University Press’s forthcoming facsimile of the notebooks provides this time for closer study. While this show does much to bring forward the image of Basquiat as a writer, encountering hundreds of pages of text in the exhibition space is challenging for even the most fair-weathered museumgoer. ![]() The Unknown Notebooks, on view at the Brooklyn Museum, features the pages of eight of his notebooks lining the gallery walls in vitrines and frames. Language and text factor heavily in all his work, evidenced by the early graffiti pieces (done under the pseudonym SAMO) that launched his career. Those familiar with the artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat will agree that he is a writer. Cover of ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Notebooks’ (all images courtesy Collection of Larry Warsh/Copyright © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, all rights reserved/Licensed by Artestar) ![]() ![]() ![]() “I look forward to being a part of bringing my long time client’s literary achievement to the screen. Michael Straczynski,” added Marcy Ross, president of Skydance Television, which is also behind WGN America’s “Manhattan” and Netflix’s “Grace and Frankie.” ![]() ![]() “We are thrilled to join forces with Spike to bring Kim Stanley Robinson’s dynamic world of the Mars trilogy to television audiences for the first time ever, particularly in the brilliant creative voice of science fiction legend J. They will be each other’s greatest source of strength - and if they can’t coexist - the greatest reason for failure,” said Spike’s exec vice president of original series, Sharon Levy, who will oversee the project, along with Spike’s Ted Gold, Justin Lacob and Lauren Ruggiero. This group of strangers must find a way to live together and survive under the most daunting conditions mankind has ever faced to become the first living generation of Martians. “The heart and soul of ‘Red Mars’ is about humanity. ![]() |