![]() The group uses counterterrorism, research, and covert ops to investigate and secure scientific threats. Department of Defense’s top secret Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The series follows a group of “killer scientists” paired with military operatives who work at the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Producers Martha and Dino De Laurentiis has snagged the film rights to James Rollins’ thriller series “The Sigma Force.” Rollins’ series contains six books with the first having been released in 2004 and the most recent landed on the New York Times’ best seller list. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To compensate for her long legs and ever-growing body, she tries to dress inconspicuously and avoids drawing any attention to herself. Unfortunately, her height makes that almost impossible. This begins her whirlwind journey into modeling in New York City. One day while working at her local movie theatre (I would love that job) Violet is discovered by Angela Blythe of Tryst Models. Shes very very tall and very thin and because of this insecure. It's a matter of getting them an idea that's not just "Please cover my book?" but more of a trend piece. Violet Greenfield wants nothing more than to be able to fade into the background of high school. Violet on the Runway is the story of Violet Greenfield. Luckily, Violet was chosen to be featured, along with Cheryl Diamond's Model: A Memoir. They liked the idea and asked for a list of books, so of course I put Violet on the Runway on the list. The way this story came about was that I emailed a Times editor, saying that a lot of Young Adult books about the modeling world were coming out, and maybe they'd like to do a round-up. You can read the story here, or just click below for a larger version of the scanned pages. ![]() ![]() In 'Violet on the Runway,' Melissa Walker pulls it off." -Holly Brubach, The New York TimesI'm so excited to be in the pages of The New York Times style magazine, T. "It's a hard sell, asking readers to muster sympathy for the congenitally gorgeous whose job it is to wear designer clothes and walk. ![]() ![]() ![]() We might think here of early market squares, but the platform as a model has really taken off with digital technologies in the past 10 years. Effectively, a platform is the intermediary between two or more different groups. ![]() NICK SRNICEK: The platform is actually a quite old business model, but it has become much more pervasive with the rise of digital technology. Let’s start from the beginning: what do you mean by platform? TOBIAS HABERKORN: Your recent book, Platform Capitalism, ends with the suggestion that we’d have many good reasons to nationalize big platforms like Google or Facebook. IN THE FOLLOWING conversation, I ask Nick Srnicek, the author of Platform Capitalism, about the nature - and dangers - of digital technology platform companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Walmart. ![]() ![]() In 1949, the second film adaptation was produced by Walt Disney as one of two segments in the package film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820.Īlong with Irving's companion piece " Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle. ![]() " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Problems playing this file? See media help. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The trials began at the commencement of June and the first victim, a woman named Bridget Bishop, was hanged. ![]() The new governor of the colony, Sir William Phipps, arrived from England in the middle of May, and he seems to have been carried away by the excitement, and authorized judicial prosecutions. Once started, the alarm spread rapidly, and in a very short time a great number of people fell under suspicion, and many were thrown into prison on very frivolous grounds, supported, as such charges usually were, by very unworthy witnesses. In the spring of 1692 an alarm of witchcraft was raised in the family of the minister of Salem, and some black servants were charged with the supposed crime. The scene of this affair was the puritanical colony of New England, since better known as Massachusetts, the colonists of which appear to have carried with them, in an exaggerated form, the superstitious feelings with regard to witchcraft which then prevailed in the mother country. It was a delusion, moreover, to which men of learning and piety lent themselves, and thus became the means of increasing it. The two very rare works reprinted in the present volume, written by two of the most celebrated of the early American divines, relate to one of the most extraordinary cases of popular delusion that modern times have witnessed. Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches LatelyĮxecuted in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account ![]() ![]() ![]() Speaking of disturbing, Taita beating the evil goddess by essentially raping one woman and having an odd sex battle with another is beyond wrong, especially trying to justify it with 'well she did a lot of evil things, and she was bad'. Frankly, the relationship between Taita and Fenn/Lostris is disturbing. The fact that he's an aging eunach but the love of his life has been reborn as a child is neatly dealt with by him having his 'manroot' regrown and finding the font of youth just as she reaches maturity. The Big Bad is built up constantly through the book only for him to beat her in two pages. ![]() The plot isn't nearly as engaging as his other plots. If you're going to write fantasy, write fantasy don't start a series with historical fiction and end it with fantasy, with a random modern adventure story in the middle. However, The Quest treats magic as totally real and goes into far fetched stuff like astral projection and talking in each others minds. ![]() I loved Warlock, and I loved the manner with which the supernatural was dealt it could be real, but it could also be coincidence and natural phenomena that the people of those times would interpret as real. ![]() ![]() Never a dull moment for the Sisters of Verhoeven, photographed with the misty reverence of a Themselves with a wooden statuette of Mary that Bartolomea has thoughtfully whittled into a dildo. The perks of the post include a double bed in which, until they get caught, she and Bartolomea enjoy blissful sex, disporting ![]() Moving on up, the sainted Benedetta becomes the new abbess. Not so their sceptical abbess (Rampling),Ī woman neither easily shaken nor stirred. When Benedetta apparently receives the stigmata while sleeping, her credulous fellow nuns are in awe. If nothing else, the sister in the spotlight (Efira as Benedetta Carlini) is a natural multitasker, alternating unhinged visions of a rock-starry Jesus (Jonathan Couzinié) with an unchasteĪttraction to sexy novitiate Bartolomea (Patakia). Brown’s invitingly titled 1986 nonfiction book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian ( Showgirls, Elle) and his co-screenwriter David Birke take a lusty bite out of Judith C. Working in his inimitable style, Verhoeven ![]() A 17th-century Tuscan convent would hardly have been a fun house in reality, but let director Paul Verhoeven loose on one and the joint is jumping. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel Cohn was born in Maryland but now also lives in New York. David is also a highly respected children's book editor, whose list includes many luminaries of children's literature, including Garth Nix, Libba Bray and Suzanne Collins. David's latest collaboration with Rachel Cohn, The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily, was picked by Zoella for her Book Club with WHSmiths. Tiny Cooper from Will Grayson, Will Grayson, now has his own novel: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story. His many collaborations include Will Grayson, Will Grayson with Fault in Our Stars author John Green. David Levithan is the New York Times best-selling author of Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, and Another Day. David and Rachel's other collaborations include Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and The 12 Days of Dash and Lily. But Ely kissed Bruce - and the resulting fallout is going to shake up the world! Perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen, Rainbow Rowell, and Morgan Matson. ![]() Bruce is Naomi's boyfriend, so there's no reason to put him on the List. So they create their "No Kiss List" of people neither of them is allowed to kiss. Naomi loves and is in love with Ely, and Ely loves Naomi, but prefers to be in love with boys. Naomi and Ely have been best friends forever. Naomi and Ely prove that any great friendship can be as confusing, treacherous, inspiring and wonderful as any great romance. From the dream team David Levithan and Rachel Cohn who brought you Nick and Norah's Infinite playlist. ![]() ![]() ![]() No one has set foot on Everland since, but Decker, Jess and Brix are as eager in 2012 to sign up for a field trip as Napps, Millet-Bass and Dinners were a century before. When the rest of the crew eventually managed to land on Everland, they found a frostbitten Dinners on the point of death sheltering under an upturned boat: it was obvious to all what must have happened. They know about the callousness of Napps, leader of the three, who with Millet-Bass, an uncomplicated ox of a man, abandoned poor Dinners when supplies were running low and bad weather made rescue look impossible. The scientists of 2012 know all about the disastrous first voyage: it's been immortalised by the captain's diaries and a classic film they regularly show on movie nights in the comfortably temperature-controlled Antarctic base. In both time schemes, three people are chosen from among their fellow explorers to land on a tiny island – a lump of rock named Everland in honour of John Evelyn, the man bankrolling the 1912 expedition. A fine-art graduate, she brings the same high-concept sensibility and visual flair to her second book, which follow two Antarctic expeditions set a century apart. ![]() ![]() I n her debut novel Mr Chartwell, Rebecca Hunt took the "black dog" of depression that hounded Winston Churchill and embodied it as a gigantic, slavering canine that divides its time between persecuting the retired prime minister and drinking gin and tonic from a watering can. ![]() ![]() While it’s worth noting that the novel’s protagonist, Luke, never figures out the truth about exactly why his government instituted a two-child policy, his friend Jen shares that they instituted the policy to avoid what’s known as a Malthusian catastrophe. ![]() Known as heihaizi or “black children,” those children can’t access public services and don’t legally exist. ![]() ![]() While some parents of illegal second children placed their children for adoption, had their children taken from them, or paid the government’s fines, others simply didn’t register to get their children government ID documents. The government also forcibly sterilized people, mostly women, and mandated contraceptive use once couples had the maximum number of children allowed. The policy was enforced sporadically, though, and some people were able to apply for exceptions to have a second child. While the policy was in place from 1980 to 2015, the Chinese government levied huge fines on families who had more than one child. China’s one-child policy is perhaps the best-known attempt to curb population growth in the name of improving a country’s economy, and it inspired Haddix to write Among the Hidden. ![]() |