![]() ![]() Much to Márcia’s dismay, her daughter hangs out with members of a neighborhood gang and relations become very strained between the two women. Jaqueline is frivolous and loud-mouthed, and makes life difficult for her mother. This comic tells the story of Márcia, a respected and seasoned nurse in a hospital in the Rio region, who lives in a favela with her companion Aluisio and her daughter Jaqueline, whom she had very young with another man. His new opus, published by Éditions ça et là, is a tragicomedy against a backdrop of urban violence. Important author of the contemporary Brazilian scene. This graphic novel depicts the life of a nurse in a chaotic Rio favela. COUP DE CUR Le grand vide / Léa Murawiec éditions 2024 / 2021 Pour sa première BD, Léa Murawiec livre une fable qui résonne avec notre monde actuel : dans cette grande mégalopole, on doit se. Marcello Quintanilha won, on Saturday March 19, the Fauve d’or with “Ecoute, jolie Marcia” (editions Here and There). The 2022 edition of the Angoulême Festival rewarded Marcello Quintanilha, a tireless chronicler of Brazilian life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In this way, “Air” becomes the story of how a struggling company created one of the most successful brands in the world on the back of a Black body, a tale as old as the nation itself. The film’s true power is its ability to convey an unnerving truth about the sneakers’ mystique: Jordan’s athletic ability was crucial to the success of Nike and Air Jordan not so much his face – and definitely not his words. How could a film about one of the most famous Black men in the world obscure his presence? Much has been made about Michael Jordan’s representation or lack thereof in “Air.” In the entire film, he utters only three words. It’s about white men languishing through midlife crises who salivate over the branding potential of a star basketball player.Īs for Jordan? Audiences just see his back as he strolls into the Nike offices and his hands as he admires the Air Jordan prototype – but never his face. It’s about power suits, purple Porsches and Rolexes. It’s about the beauty of design and the seduction of marketing. ![]() (THE CONVERSATION) The film “ Air,” which tells the story of Nike’s signing of Michael Jordan, isn’t actually about Michael Jordan at all. ![]() ![]() ![]() His ending are never perfect or happy, but they are good, they are both light and darkness. Oliver Jeffers, author and illustrator of many picture books including Lost and Found, Here We Are, A Child of Books, and STUCK (my personal favorite), shows us how to draw a penguin. Jeffers never shies away from this darkness. He never plays around with language, instead he strips it to its core and somehow it works by tapping into the darkness, the loneliness that kids seem to be so much closer to than adults. His illustrations are beautiful and poignant. Oliver Jeffers is a master of finding the core of friendship and putting it on display without judgement or evaluation. Still the boy leaves the penguin, but regrets quickly and sails back to get the penguin – of course the penguin is long gone and the boy sets out for his home journey… only to find the penguin coming to get him. ![]() There, the boy leaves the penguin, but now both the penguin and the boy are sadder than they were before. The boy then decides that the penguin is homesick and they set out together on a perilous journey to get to the south pole. ![]() The boy wants to make the penguin happy, but no matter what he does the penguin is sad. ![]() A boy discovers a penguin and the penguin is sad. All of us are lonely and unsure in friendships and relationships, but still friendships happen in their own weird, imperfect ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() The acting in this film is wonderful - the actors are true Dickens characters, from Robert Newton (Sikes), Alec Guinness (with some wild make-up, as Fagin), and young John Howard Davies (Oliver), to all of the minor roles. While some details have been necessarily changed for cinematic purposes, the world of the film is all Dickens. Dickens' own great writing made the original succeed, and this screen version succeeds because it too is done masterfully. The story of the young orphan Oliver, caught among a band of thieves while longing for a home of his own, is one of Dickens' most melodramatic, a story that loses all effectiveness and believability if not told with great skill. Dickens' world comes alive through the acting, writing, and settings, making it not only a faithful realization of the atmosphere of the original, but also a joy to watch. ![]() ![]() David Lean's adaptation of "Oliver Twist" is the perfect screen version of a wonderful novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Folk of Air is exquisite enchantment–gorgeous, absorbing, lavish with magic, love, and conflict. And though the plan is that Jude will only go to Faerieland for a day or two, the moment Jude returns to Court, she’s again enmeshed in the fight for the throne, a seat that belongs now not only to Cardan but, unbeknownst to all, to her. ![]() Thus when her treacherous twin Taryn arrives at her door requesting that Jude temporarily swap places with her–Taryn has, astonishingly, murdered her utter prick of a husband, Cardan’s childhood friend Locke, and wants Jude, who cannot be glamoured to tell the truth, to pretend to be her during Taryn’s inquest–Jude agrees. She longs to return, to best Cardan, to seize the throne, to somehow get back who she was there, a self she simply isn’t in the mortal world. Living in Maine with her sister Vivi and her brother Oak, she spends her days watching brainless TV and her nights doing odd jobs for fairies. Until and unless she is pardoned by the crown, let her not step one foot in Faerie or forfeit her life.”Īs the final book in the trilogy, The Queen of Nothing, begins Jude is infuriated, embarrassed, and bored. ![]() “I exile Jude Duarte to the mortal world. This review contains spoilers for the first two books in The Folk of Air series.Īt the end of The Wicked King, the second book in Black’s marvelous The Folk of the Airseries, Cardan, the King of Faerie, banishes Jude to the mortal world decreeing: ![]() ![]() ![]() And yes, the writing style annoyed me, but ‘ Gone’ was better in all accounts in comparison to the previous two instalments. ![]() ![]() There is always plenty of action and controversy in these novels. It has been two years since I read the previous novel, ‘ Fade,’ and I think the break did me some good. I enjoyed this much more than the other two – maybe because there was less forced lexicon to connect with the YA audience, maybe because it wasn’t so over the top, or maybe because a lot of questions got answered. Well, ‘ Gone’ totally blew my expectations away. That, and I wasn’t sure if this conclusion would do the series any justice. It took me a while to pick up this final book in the Wake Trilogy… mainly because, even though I enjoyed the first two books, I wasn’t all that invested in the story. As Janie uncovers his secret past, she begins to realize that the choice thought she had has more dire consequences than she ever imagined. Things get even more complicated when she meets her father for the very first time-and he’s in a coma. But deep down she’s panicking about how she’s going to survive her future when getting sucked into other people’s dreams is really starting to take its toll. ![]() Things should be great for Janie-she has graduated from high school and is spending her summer with Cabel, the guy she’s totally in love with. Bringing new meaning to sleeping your life away. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Shows the chilling results of both parties’ unwillingness to stand up to increasingly aggressive police tactics that often pit cops against those they are sworn to protect. His fascinating, frightening narrative that spans from America’s earliest days through today shows how a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society. In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko shows how politicians’ ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as enemies. ![]() ![]() But over the last two centuries, America’s cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko Hachette Book Group Rise of the Warrior Cop The Militarization of America's Police Forces By Radley Balko 9.99 Format: ebook 9.99 ebook 12.99 Audiobook Download (Unabridged) Trade Paperback 19. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the George Floyd protests. This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Drawing on this remarkable archive, Russell Shorto has created a gripping narrative–a story of global sweep centered on a wilderness called Manhattan–that transforms our understanding of early America. ![]() But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. ![]() ![]() In the 1930s Louis-Ferdinand Céline became – for the rest of his life – a rabid anti-Semite, racist and supporter of Nazi-ideology. The novels Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit: 1932 re-published as Fable for Another Time in 1952) and Death on Credit ( Mort à credit: 1936) made his fame. He worked as a physician and supplemented his income doing research and writing articles, later pamphlets. ![]() A Fictional Biography ( La Vie et l'Œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis: 1924) is considered as his true literary debut. Although he had published the Carnet du Cuirassier Destouches ( The Notebook of Cuirassier Destouches) and a short story titled Des vagues ( The Waves) in 19 respectively, his doctoral thesis, Semmelweiss. Wounded at the right arm early on in the Great War, he was discharged from the army in 1915 and resumed working in different jobs, while already preparing to become a physician. ![]() Eleven years old he left school to work in different jobs until he joined the army in 1912. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was born Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches in Courbevoie, France, in May 1894. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 1 New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh allies two fierce changelings in this explosive Psy-Changeling novel. Nalini Singh's psy-changeling series returns with another stunning novel. Read 1609 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Along the way, the two dominants may find that submitting to one another uncovers not just a deadly conspiracy, but a passion so raw that it'll leave them both branded by fire. But when a brilliant changeling researcher is kidnapped from DarkRiver territory, Mercy and Riley must work together to track the young man - before his shadowy captors decide he's no longer useful. ![]() The problem is not simply that he pushes her buttons the problem is that he's a wolf, she's a cat and they're both used to being on top. This series is best read in sequence but a couple of the later books are almost standalone reads. Though DarkRiver sentinel Mercy is feeling the pressure to mate, she savagely resists when Riley Kincaid, a lieutenant from the SnowDancer pack, tries to possess her. Branded by Fire is about the 6th in the series and tells of the romance between Mercy, Lucas, the alpha leopard's only female sentinel and Riley, 2nd in command to Hawke, the alpha wolf. ![]() |