![]() ![]() It focuses on her childhood as the child of Hollywood royalty, and her experiences with Star Wars, her relationship with Paul Simon, and her struggles with addiction, among other things. Wishful Drinking, published in 2008, is Fisher’s first of three memoirs, and was based on a one-woman play she began performing in 2006. What I’ve always appreciated about Carrie Fisher is that she always seems to be such a strong individual. Science fiction movies in the 70s and 80s were not kind to women, so her portrayal of Leia as a strong, independent, powerful woman matters quite a bit.īut many people admire Fisher not for her role as Leia, but for her honesty and humor as a writer and her advocacy for those with mental illnesses. While I can’t say Carrie Fisher shaped my self-image as a girl, I can say she’s one of the best parts of the movies. There are women who can say that her portrayal of Princess Leia changed how they viewed women and themselves. I actually didn’t grow up with the Star Wars movies (I’m the right age, we just weren’t a movie-going family). Having suffered through the last three, he’s in a kind of heaven right now with the latest two being so good. ![]() ![]() I was especially sad for my husband, who grew up with the Star Wars movies. And we had just seen her in Rogue One and Star Wars: A New Hope. ![]() I was really saddened by Carrie Fisher’s death last month. ![]()
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![]() The stories are accompanied with the Original illustrations from The Strand Magazine. ![]() Plus the 56 short stories from the collections: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) His Last Bow (1917) and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). Contains the four Sherlock Holmes novels: A Study in Scarlet (1887) The Sign of the Four (1890) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902) and The Valley of. Contains the four Sherlock Holmes novels: A Study in Scarlet (1887) The Sign of the Four (1890) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902) and The Valley of Fear (1914-1915). Please contact bookseller for exact price. Please note : this book is very heavy (1500g) overseas purchasers may be charged additional shipping. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. First Wordsworth edition first printing 2008. ![]() ![]() What is sure to be a classic work of sports journalism, Across the River is a necessary investigation into the serious realities of young athletes in struggling neighborhoods: gentrification, eviction, mental health issues, the drug trade, and gun violence. In Across the River, award-winning sports journalist Kent Babb follows the Karr football team through its 2019 season as Brown and his team-perhaps the scrappiest and most rebellious group in the program’s history-vie to again succeed on and off the field. An epidemic of gun violence plagues New Orleans and its surrounding communities and has claimed many innocent lives, including Brown’s former star quarterback, Tollette “Tonka” George, shot near a local gas station. For years, this football program has brought glory to Algiers, winning three consecutive state championships and sending dozens of young men to college on football scholarships.Īlthough he is preparing for a fourth title, head coach Brice Brown is focused on something else: keeping his players alive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized residents find joy on Friday nights when the Cougars of Edna Karr High School take the field. ![]() On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. ![]() ![]() Worse, he is honour bound to try to prove the man innocent-and the Army wrong-by finding another suspect. Ruso, unwillingly involved in the investigation of the murder, is appalled to find that Tilla is still spending time with the lover. ![]() Soon they find that Tilla's tribespeople are being encouraged to rebel against Roman control by a mysterious leader known as the Stag Man, and her former lover is implicated in the grisly murder of a soldier. Not only is he going to the hinterlands of the hinterlands, but it his slave Tilla's homeland and she has some scores to settle there. ![]() After getting involved with the murders of local prostitutes in the town of Deva, Doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso needs to get out of town, so has volunteered for a posting with the Army on the volatile border where the Roman-controlled half of Britannia meets the independent tribes of the North. ![]() It is spring in the year of 118, and Hadrian has been Emperor of Rome for less than a year. ![]() ![]() ![]() When we asked him about himself, this is what he had to say: Rick also twice received the coveted Hugo award for best professional science fiction artist, in 19. ![]() Beginning in the late 1970s Rick added film and television illustration and special effects to his repertoire, with productions like Star Trek: The Motion Picture (He was with the Star Trek franchise for 15 years), The Last Starfighter, Future Flight, and Cosmos, for which he and other members of the astronomical art team received an Emmy award, the first for visual effects. ![]() He has a long list of impressive clients including NASA, Sky & Telescope, Smithsonian, Analog, Time-Life Books, Science Digest plus many more. Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester is happy to shine our Friday spotlight on Rick Sternbach, space and science fiction artist. ![]() ![]() The special effects for the series were provided by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Macy, Kim Delaney, Steven Weber, Ron Livingston, William Hurt, Samantha Mathis, Jacinta Stapleton and an uncredited Bill Barretta as Savage Commando. ![]() ![]() " The Road Virus Heads North" and " Autopsy Room Four" are adaptations of stories from Everything's Eventual (2002), and " Battleground" is from Night Shift (1978). Production Įpisodes based on stories from the Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection are " Umney's Last Case", " You Know They Got a Hell of a Band", " The End of the Whole Mess", " The Fifth Quarter" and " Crouch End". The series was filmed entirely in Melbourne, Australia. ![]() A trailer confirming a DVD edition of the series was released in October 2006. Although most of the stories are from the book collection of the same title, some are from different collections by King. ![]() It debuted on July 12, 2006, and ended its run on August 2, 2006. Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King is an eight-episode anthology series that aired on TNT, based on short stories written by American author Stephen King. American TV series or program Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephanie Stein Crease is the first to fully tell Webb’s story in her biography, Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America…The book’s entire introduction is excerpted here. (featuring the art of Jennylynd James) The Sunday Poem “Jazz Within Me” by Jerrice Baptiste Book Excerpt “Chick” Webb was one of the first virtuoso drummers in jazz and an innovative bandleader dubbed the “Savoy King,” who reigned at Harlem’s world-famous Savoy Ballroom. Like all previous volumes, the beauty of this edition is not solely evident in the general excellence of the published works it also rests in the hearts of the individuals from diverse backgrounds who possess a mutual desire to reveal their life experiences and interactions with the music, its character, and its culture. ![]() In This Issue The Spring, 2023 collection of jazz poetry is the 14th edition published on Jerry Jazz Musician since the fall of 2019, when the concept was initiated. ![]() ![]() ![]() He earned a Master of Arts degree in English and has worked as a Web Content Manager and Editor for some of the largest corporations in the world. ![]() ![]() Enter the amazing world of The Aleph Null Chronicles! Dean was born on the Minnesota Iron Range, which is located far to the north and is the source of one of the largest iron ore deposits in the country. They face trials anyone can understand but in a fantastical world of mathematics-based magic, monsters out of your worst nightmares, sword masters who aren't human, giants, and a race of people that can affect time itself. He created a world populated with characters that live and breathe, love and hurt. Dean Frank Lappi is the author of The Aleph Null Chronicles dark fantasy series that blends sexuality, science, and horror into the traditional fantasy genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They'll borrow shoes and clothes and boyfriends, and eventually make peace with their most intimate enemies - each other. Along the way, they'll encounter a diverse cast of characters - from a stepmother who's into recreational Botox to a disdainful pug with no name. These two women, who claim to have nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that they're more alike than they'd ever imagined. Although her big-screen stardom hasn't progressed past her left hip's appearance in a Will Smith video, Maggie dreams of fame and fortune - and of getting her big sister on a skin-care regimen. She has an exercise regime shes going to start next week, and she. Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. Twenty-eight years old and drop-dead gorgeous. From Jennifer Weiner comes a story of two sisters with nothing in common but a love for shoes learn they are more alike than they thought possible. She also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up, semi-employed little sister to straighten up and fly right. ![]() ![]() She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she's beautiful. From Jennifer Weiner comes a story of two sisters with nothing in common but a love for shoes learn they are more alike than they thought possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() To clarify these underlying methods, as well as the style of Napoleon's fabulous intellect, Chandler examines in detail each campaign mounted and personally conducted by Napoleon, analyzing the strategies employed, revealing wherever possible the probable sources of his subject's military ideas. But there were from the first to the last certain basic principles of strategic maneuver and battlefield planning that he almost invariably put into practice. To be sure, every operation Napoleon conducted contained unique improvisatory features. Napoleon disavowed any suggestion that he worked from formula ("Je n'ai jamais eu un plan d'opérations"), but military historian David Chandler demonstrates this was at best only a half-truth. ![]() ![]() The Campaigns of Napoleon is a masterful analysis and insightful critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex-an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat. In this "engrossing," ( The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victories-and to his ultimate downfall. ![]() |