![]() ![]() The family conflict plays out over the summer of 2019, and the narrative alternates with scenes from Mazna and Idris’s lives in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and in California during the early years of their marriage. All of the children harbor jealousies of various kinds and hide secrets from one another and from their parents, but no secrets are bigger or more potentially devastating than those carried by Mazna, and they gradually emerge in flashbacks of her life before she married Idris. His Syrian-born wife, Mazna and their three adult children-Ava, Mimi, and Naj-fear he’s making a mistake, and they gather in Beirut to host a memorial and discuss the sale. After Lebanese American heart surgeon Idris Nasr’s father dies, Idris feels compelled to sell the family’s ancestral home in Beirut. Poet and novelist Alyan ( Salt Houses) illuminates in this exquisite novel the recent history of Lebanon and Syria through the intimate tragedies and betrayals befalling one family. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The rule announced Wednesday is part of new measures meant to crack down on illegal border crossings while creating new legal pathways. officials warned of difficult days ahead as the program tied to the COVID-19 pandemic expires this week. That rule has allowed the government to quickly expel migrants to Mexico. readies for the end of a key pandemic restriction.Īsylum seekers have been showing up at the border in huge numbers in anticipation of this week’s end of the use of a restriction known as Title 42. It marks a fundamental shift in immigration policy as the U.S. ![]() CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - The Biden administration on Thursday will begin denying asylum to migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through. ![]() ![]() ![]() On and off the track, Lu will need to work hard to overcome new challenges, from the 110-meter hurdles to life lessons about integrity – and gold medals. Dynamic Lockard ensures aural consistency for the team, including Coach’s unique energy. While Reynolds keeps the spotlight firmly focused on his latest track star, he also manages to provide loyal readers with welcome glimpses into the lives of his previous headliners. Lu happens to be albino, the miracle child to his parents who are, shockingly, pregnant with a sibling no one ever dreamed would be possible. Meet “Lucky Lu,” “Lookie Lu,” “Lu the Lightning Bolt,” who’s co-captain of the middle school Defenders track team. The final title in two-time National Book Award-nominated Jason Reynolds’ popular Track tetralogy ( Ghost, Patina, Sunny, Lu) is the third of the series voiced by the author’s childhood friend and anointed collaborator Guy Lockard. ![]() ![]() ![]() And what delirious action it is’ – Vogue. The Handmaiden is based on Sarah Waters’s acclaimed 2002 novel Fingersmith, but Park shifts the action from Victorian England to a fabulous-looking 1930s Korea that’s ruled by the Japanese. This breathless feminist thriller has the refined style of an art film but offers the disreputable fun of a guilty pleasure. ‘The Handmaiden, the mesmerising new movie by the spectacularly talented South Korean director Park Chan-wook. ![]() ‘Sarah Waters’s novel Fingersmith has had a lavish and almost operatically spectacular adaptation by Korea’s unparalleled auteur Park Chan-wook’ – Guardian Please enable JavaScript to view this page properly. ‘Park has conjured up not only his smartest but also his most stirring film to date’ – New Yorker Inspired by the novel Fingersmith by British author Sarah Waters, THE HANDMAIDEN borrows the most dynamic elements of its source material and combines it with Park Chan-wook’s singular vision to create an unforgettable viewing experience. ![]() Listen to Radio Four’s Film Programme on Thursday 14th April 2017, where Sarah Waters will be discussing The Handmaiden. The film was awarded Best Foreign Picture and Best Production Design by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, after being nominated for the 2016 Palme d’Or. The New York Times chose The Handmaiden as one of their top ten picks of 2016 and the Guardian US placed the film ninth in its list of the fifty best films of 2016. Read an interview with Sarah Waters for The Guardian here. The Handmaiden, inspired by Sarah Waters’ best-selling novel Fingersmith, is in cinemas nationwide from April 14th. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol, an outcast who assists Dr Moreau with his scientific experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas with plentiful coffers. ‘The imagination of Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a thing of wonder, restless and romantic, fearless in the face of genre, embracing the polarities of storytelling’ – New York TimesĬarlota Moreau: A young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatan peninsula, the only daughter of a genius – or a madman. ‘ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022’ – She Reads From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. ![]() ![]() Shawn refuses, claiming it would be improper for him to be alone with her until they are wed. Pegeen asks him to stay with her, since the night makes her nervous as well. Shawn Keogh enters, remarking upon the frightening darkness outside. Her father, Michael James, has left her for the evening, while he attends a wake. Pegeen Mike, daughter to the alehouse owner, sits alone in the pub, writing a letter to order supplies for her upcoming wedding to Shawn Keogh. The entire play is set in a public house (or pub) "on the wild coast of Mayo," outside a village in Northwestern Ireland, circa 1907 (113). In a short preface to his play, Synge emphasizes a link between the imagination of the Irish country people and their speech itself, which is "rich and living." He credits the Irish people for having such a "fiery," "magnificent" language, and further credits himself for having both the presence of mind and poetic vision to recognize those virtues. ![]() ![]() ![]() Holtz went onto the lunar surface without his helmet properly affixed, simple as that. Dash senses there’s foul play afoot, but no one believes him. ![]() Then Moon Base Alpha’s top scientist turns up dead. Kids aren’t allowed on the lunar surface, meaning they’re trapped inside the tiny moon base with next to nothing to occupy their time-and the only other kid Dash’s age spends all his time hooked into virtual reality games. Like his fellow lunarnauts-otherwise known as Moonies-living on Moon Base Alpha, twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is famous the world over for being one of the first humans to live on the moon.Īnd he’s bored out of his mind. It’s a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York Times Book Review called “a delightful and brilliantly constructed middle grade thriller.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again.įifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. ![]() "The night was expected to bring tragedy." So begins one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers in recent years. ![]() One of the Best or Most Anticipated Books of 2022: Newsweek Ī Library Reads Selection-Best Book Voted By Librarians for March 2022 From the author of the breakout thriller Every Last Fear, comes Alex Finlay's electrifying next novel The Night Shift, about a pair of small-town murders fifteen years apart-and the ties that bind them. ![]() ![]() Pip watches her carefully for the first time because he recognizes something about her. As theyre eating dinner, Molly the housekeeper gets yelled at for being slow. He feels Lilly’s pain but fails to help her and advises visiting the clinic if she has an animal problem. Jaggers spills the beans that Estellas been married to Drummle and predicts that Drummle the spider will start beating her, and Pip is even more heartbroken and astonished. Larry has become a vet but still takes out time to listen to Lilly’s grief. The following day, Lilly visits Larry’s “Best Friend Clinic” and discovers that he is not a therapist anymore. Larry Fine (Kevin Kline), who may help her move on. Regina advises Lilly to see her therapist friend, Dr. ![]() However, Jack’s therapist, Regina Miller, finds Lilly struggling with loss. ![]() While Lilly copes with the tragedy in the real world, working in a department store to support herself.Įvery Tuesday, Lilly attends a community program at New Horizons to help Jack recover faster. Katie dies due to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) that breaks down the couple.Ī year later, Jack, diagnosed with suicidal depression, admits himself to the New Horizons mental health program. The couple lovingly make plans for an uncertain future, unable to foresee what tragedy awaits ahead. ![]() A prologue scene depicts an American couple, Lilly (Melissa McCarthy) and Jack Maynard (Chris O’Dowd), who celebrate the arrival of their newborn daughter, Katie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, I should say up front that we’re not looking at all of missionary history. And what we find is that the kind of suffering we learned about last week has often marked the lives of faithful missionaries. Today we turn to missionary history as part of our transition from the theological foundations of missions to the practical section of this class. We saw how all suffering is under God’s sovereign hand, for our good, such that as Christians we can always respond in trust and hope through the gospel. Last week we saw how gospel-advance around the world is often accompanied by suffering. Share stories that encourage and inspire faithful missionary go-ers and send-ers.ĝefine the dominant paradigm in missions leading up to the 20th century to give context for recent shifts.Main idea: The gospel advances through the faith-filled afflictions of missionaries who treasure Christ above all else. ![]() |