![]() ![]() The film festival will feature a selection of documentaries that document, examine and discuss stories from various parts of Europe and each session will end with an engaging post film discussion with audience members. More than a historical documentary, Paris Noir reveals the beginning of worldwide assertion of African-American culture.ĭirected, written and edited by critically acclaimed documentary filmmakers Joanne Burke and David Burke, Paris Noir blends rare photographs and archival footage, exciting period music, and insightful commentary by leading scholars and experts.īlack Europe on Film is a programme of screenings curated by Black History Studies in partnership with the Bernie Grant Arts Centre celebrating the history and contributions of African people in Europe where their presence is significant but little known. An engaging chronicle of African-American life in Paris since the dawn of the Jazz Age. ![]() Weaving stories and themes from World War I, the Jazz Age of the 1920s up to the German occupation of World War II, Paris Noir is thought-provoking storytelling that resonates in today’s social and political climate. PARIS NOIR: African Americans in the City of Light. Paris Noir: African-Americans in the City of Light is the most comprehensive and compelling documentary existing on the remarkable migration of pioneering African-Americans to France and the impact both cultures had on each other. This doc explores the history of African-American writers and artists who settled in Paris ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Who would have guessed Dwayne is a country boy?"ĭwayne revealed that he grew up listening to country music and, as a teenager living in Nashville, even dreamed of becoming a country singer. "His voice really actually fits that song.What a great tribute to the late Loretta Lynn :)" "This is unexpected, didn't know Dwayne sang until now and loved his low voice that matches with Kelly's high notes which she killed it once more.Never in a million years would I think I’d ever see THE ROCK duet with Kelly Clarkson !!! Yes !!!!" Kelly and Dwayne teamed up to perform Loretta's 1967 song "Don't Come Home a' Drinkin (With Lovin' on Your Mind)." Fans left hundreds of comments on the video. ![]() ![]() A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives ![]() ![]() Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What if they had stayed friends? Been each other’s first loves? Been each other’s family like old times? But they will always wonder about the what ifs. What follows are the different paths that Autumn and Finn take through high school. The novel opens with the knowledge of how things will end, and the reader will spend the rest of the book trying to escape the truth of what will happen, to no avail (prepare for complete and utter emotional annihilation with a box of tissues). Until middle school when they make friends with different crowds. In the back of their minds, they are always thinking about the other, wondering if they can find each other again.Īutumn and Finn’s moms were best friends, so when they both got pregnant at the same time, it was natural for their children to be best friends too. It is the story Autumn and Finn, best friends since before they were born, they lost touch somewhere along the way and forgot how to be friends. “If He Had Been With Me” is Laura Nowlin’s debut novel. There is so much possibility, anxiety, and sadness rolled into that two-letter word, and it encapsulates the entire spectrum of human emotions. ![]() If you looked up the saddest word in the dictionary, there would be a special little entry for the word if. ![]() ![]() ”Bourne talks about feminism so openly and truthfully in her books and if you ever doubted the intelligence, ability or passion of teenage girls read her books and you never will again.” - Muchbooks reader review on Guardian Children's Books It's also refreshing to see feminism highlighted in such a positive and relevant way for teenagers.” - Fiona Noble, The Bookseller ![]() ![]() She writes with such humour and great honesty, with wonderfully relatable characters. “I'm a big Holly Bourne fan and this is my favourite yet. But can he really be interested in her? Even with best friends Evie and Lottie’s advice, Amber’s finding love is hard. And then there’s Kyle, the most American person Amber’s ever met. But Amber’s hoping that spending the summer with her can change all that. ![]() Her mum has never been the caring type, even before she moved to California, got remarried and had a personality transplant. ![]() ![]() Koontz is represented by Richard Pine and Kimberly Witherspoon of InkWell Management and Angela Cheng Caplan of Cheng Caplan Company. “The characters in Devoted are close to my heart, and it would be a career capper to see them brought to the screen,” added Koontz. “We are honored to have him entrust us with the adaptation of his story and for Devoted to be the latest book rights that we’ve secured for Tomorrow Studios.” “Dean is an incredible force and his acumen for writing suspenseful thrillers with heartfelt characters and story makes him uber successful globally,” said Adelstein. Murder for ABC in 1998 and The Face of Fear for CBS in 1990. From Dean Koontz, the master of suspense, comes an epic thriller about a terrifying. Other books to have been adapted include Mr. Devoted as its meant to be heard, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini. Robot‘s Gloria Reuben teamed with Cathy Konrad’s Tree Line Film and Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Television to adapt Koontz’s Dark Rivers of the Heart for television. ![]() It is the latest television adaptation of one of Koontz’s novel. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. ![]() ![]() Not when his father died in a freak accident. It’s one of the few books I have finished wondering what the heck I’d just read. Written by bestselling American author Dean Koontz, this story (due for release on April 6 th 2020) is at times genuinely frightening and disturbing, and at others feels like a PG family movie. 'Snowpiercer' Season 4 Won't Air On TNT, Final Season Shopped By Tomorrow Studios Along With Potential Offshoots Summary: 'Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Devoted is a twisted, crazy roller coaster of a book. ![]() ![]() Crisp world building, recognizable and fully-realized characters, and a refreshingly unique storytelling style make for an absorbing read. ![]() ”'Nicotine and octane in equal parts might come close to the high-energy buzz from Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim. “Paced like greased lightning (watch out for friction burns on your turning finger), blend the movie-ish delights of tough guy noir and such smart-mouthgore-fests as “Reanimator” and “Army of Darkness”, seasoned by soupcons of Gaimanian romanticism and Koontzian sentiment.” Booklist. I loved this book and all its screwed-up people.” - Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother … all confident and energetic and fresh and angry. Some of his other books include The Wrong Dead Guy, The Everything Box, Metrophage, and Butcher. ![]() Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime, and is in development as a feature film. ”'The most hard-boiled piece of supernatural fiction I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. ![]() I couldn’t put it down.” - Charlaine Harris Green wrote an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter, it would read much like Sandman Slim - violent, vivid, non-stop action of the supernatural kind. Richard Kadrey is the New York Times-bestselling author of fifteen novels, including the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. An addictively satisfying, deeply amusing, dirty-ass masterpiece, Sandman Slim swerves hell-bent through our culture’s impacted gridlock of genres…it’s like watching Sergio Leone and Clive Barker co-direct from a script by Jim Thompson and S. ”'The best B movie I’ve read in at least twenty years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Raina lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is also the creator of Drama and Ghosts, and is the adapter and illustrator of the first four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels. About the Author: Raina Telgemeier is the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning creator of Smile, Sisters, and Guts, which are all graphic memoirs based on her childhood. A thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face - and eventually conquer - fear. can they figure out how to get along?GutsRaina has tummy trouble, and it seems to coincide with her worries about food, school, family, and changing friendships. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years. Raina Telgemeier is the 1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Awardwinning creator of Smile, Sisters, and Guts, which are all graphic memoirs based on her childhood. ![]() ![]() Amara is cute, but she's also cranky and mostly prefers to play by herself. SmileThe true story of how Raina severely injured her two front teeth when she was in the sixth grade, and the dental drama that followed!SistersRaina can't wait to be a big sister. A special box set of Raina Telgemeier's bestselling memoirs! ![]() ![]() So without further ado, before you give up on audiobooks, try these: From Lukov With Love by Mariana Zapata Narrated by Callie Dalton and Teddy Hamilton ![]() I decided to organize these more or less (how does one even compare apples and oranges, anyway?) in order so we end with my absolute, top, I-squee-to-everyone recommendation. I might do another smutty six featuring narrators I like to listen to, but for today we’re looking at the combination of great stories brought to life with great narration. I’m sure I’ve listened to audiobooks that I might have thought were just okay if I had read them, but the narrator brought the story to life in such a way I thought it was fantastic. A narrator can make or break an audiobook. (I mean, I would, but my shopping trips would be less fun.)Īside from one’s ability to process audiobooks or not, there’s the matter of narrators. ![]() Holly and Ingrid were recently bemoaning (might be a strong word, but if they weren’t, they should have been) the fact that they can’t process audiobooks, and there I sat, wondering how on earth I’d live without them. I don’t read nearly as fast as Holly or Ingrid, and I really like to multitask in certain areas (embroidery and movie night, anyone?). ![]() ![]() Since the Journal was written for advice such a state of affairs must bring you, Sir, a good deal of satisfaction. The opposite way of popularity is far more common for books getting old, yet with so many things turned upside down nowadays this phenomenon, peculiar by itself, lacks no companion in strangeness. Previously read by few, to satisfy their specific curiosities, it is now chased by many, seeking universal experience. You must be not surprised any longer, I presume, by a stranger’s letter like this when it concerns your Journal. A letter to “Journal’s” narrator, from a data scientist writing in the second plague year. I want to give them a voice once again in this letter. And data-based fiction is never closed for augmentation: data can speak more than the author transmitted. These were real and for their substantial use, we can call the “Journal” a data-based fiction. Concerning statistics included in the “Journals”, they cannot be said deluded, though. ![]() For decades the readers of “A Journal of the Plague Year” were thinking they are reading genuine memoirs of the 1665’s Great Plague eyewitness. To describe it, nearly sixty years later, in his novel, Daniel Defoe needed to dust off faded diaries, survey old medical pamphlets and query archival statistics. ![]() ![]() He was only five years old when the Great Plague broke out so could not remember it. ![]() |