![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While workaholic Casey rubs elbows with celebrities daily as the host of Gossip TV and comes home nightly to an empty apartment, stay-at-home mom Rachel juggles an "oops" baby, two fiery teenagers, and a husband who barely seems the man she fell in love with two decades before. With "a delicious, page-turning premise, and sweet and surprising insights" ( New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster), Your Perfect Life perfectly illustrates that old adage: Sometimes, you have to walk a mile in someone else's shoes to see what's in her heart.īest friends since childhood, Casey and Rachel couldn't lead more different lives. Two childhood best friends wake up the morning after their twentieth high school reunion to discover that they've switched bodies in this hilarious and heartwarming debut by two childhood best friends. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She temporarily becomes suspicious of him when she realizes he has been teaching her dark magic, but he is able to persuade her to continue trusting him by explaining dark magic is not necessarily evil magic, though this turns out to be a lie as well. He slowly won Raven's trust and affection and manipulated her into freeing him from his physical imprisonment first, then he taught her his full knowledge of magic to enable his complete escape. He pretends as a kindred spirit who could empathize with Raven's nature. When she felt the loneliest, Malchior made his move, introducing himself as the wizard and telling her the story of how the dragon imprisoned him in the book. Upon first reading it, Raven was quite taken by the story of the battle so much in fact that she completely isolated herself from her teammates just to read the story to its end. ![]() Through subsequent ages, the spellbook changed hands and eventually wound up in Raven's possession. But the dragon proved to be physically superior to Rorek, so he decided to employ his very last resort and trapped Malchior inside his spellbook with a powerful curse. One thousand years ago, the wizard Rorek of Nol engaged the ancient dragon Malchior in battle. ![]() ![]() I advise all lovers of the thriller genre, especially courtroom dramas to read this novel, and to only, out of a sense of completion, approach the other two. ![]() So despite Grisham setting this gripping tale in the 1990s fictional Ford County, it still had a modern vibe to it, especially seeing how the case is not about race this time around, as Jake Brigance has to save a 16-year old white boy who killed an off-duty white police officer from the gas chamber via a sensational capital murder trial. ![]() Maybe it’s because times have certainly changed around the world especially since the 2010s and this applies heavily to the law both inside and outside America. Brigance, to be superior to the original 2 novels. Next on the list was A Time to Kill (1989), then The Pelican Brief (1992) and out of curiosity I checked out Sycamore Row (2013) which can stated as a spiritual sequel to A Time to Kill as it features the same main character, Jake Brigance, but in this story, he is defending an African-American housemaid whose former white employer leaves behind a will declaring 90% of his estate to be transferred to this woman.īut I found Grisham’s latest work, A Time for Mercy (2020), again considered the 3rd part of the trilogy due to featuring Mr. Clark, an excellent author in his own right, for recommending John Grisham’s earlier novels. ![]() Firstly, I’d like to thank my friend Chad A. ![]() ![]() The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.Īnderson’s imaginative and highly intelligent exploration of the horrors of human experimentation and the ambiguous history of America’s origins will leave readers impatient for the promised sequel. Anderson's extraordinary novel takes place at a time when American Patriots rioted and battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. ![]() Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston, M. ![]() Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments - and his own chilling role in them. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother - a princess in exile from a faraway land - are the only persons in their household assigned names. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. This deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the mid-1990s, the studio approached director Kevin Smith to make a threequel, but that effort ended in development hell. Nevertheless, it was still reasonably profitable and Universal was eager to make a third film. The 1989 sequel (also starring Chase and directed by Ritchie) was not as successful, earning 10 million dollars less at the box office on an identical budget. And I actually spoke to a class at one of those colleges by speaker phone! Here I was, talking to a class of 200 people-and you know, it’s not ‘Lawrence of Arabia.’” “I would get calls from colleges like Amherst and Williams when I was back in L.A. In 1999, the New York Post’s Jonathan Foreman reported that Fletch had become all the rage on American college campuses: “It’s huge,” Chase tells The Post. Confidential, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, and The Player. Ritchie’s 1985 film Fletch is now widely regarded as a cult classic, and in 2008, a group of Los Angeles Times writers voted it the 23rd best film set in Los Angeles over the previous quarter-century, alongside gems like L.A. Earlier this month, Miramax brought us Confess, Fletch, the latest cinematic incarnation of the wise-ass investigative reporter first brought to the screen by Chevy Chase and director Michael Ritchie in the 1980s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Last Laugh: All over the City of Philadelphia, crimes are being committed. Problem is, Kareem Bezel sees things quite differently and sets out to prove their innocence in the Philadelphia trial of the year: United States of America vs. Dre and Kareem are on trial for allegedly violating a laundry list of statues in the United States Code. ![]() His crafty spree of thievery propped his older brother, Andre Bezel's illicit drug business right into the cross hairs of corrupt DEA Agent Lucas McKenzey.ĭie Later: Assistant United States Attorney Barnswell thinks that he has everything he needs to convict the Bezel brothers. Laugh Now and First Laugh: By 22, Kareem Bezel has made it to the top rung of the New York fashion scene, and he has done everything, including fraud, theft, receiving stolen property, theft by deception, identity theft, and embezzlement, to get there. For fans of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a dramatic Contemporary boxed set by Amazon & National Bestselling author Rahiem Brooks.Īn Amazon Top 10 HOT NEW RELEASE (Mystery, Thriller & Suspense)!Īn Amazon #1 Bestseller (Mystery, Thriller & Suspense)!ĪT LAST, YOU CAN BUY ALL FOUR BOOKS AT ONCE AT THIS SPECIAL SALE PRICE. ![]() ![]() ![]() That spring Chinese photographer Xu Yong quit his day job and spent his spare time photographing the protests his on-the-ground photojournalistic images have remained unseen for the past 25 years and only recently did he make the decision to publish them in a book. Over the years, the Chinese government has consistently frustrated any attempt to celebrate these fateful days, doing everything possible to conceal memories, reminders, and photographic documentation of the unrest. These hopeful and largely peaceful protests ended in a violent crackdown, leaving hundreds, maybe thousands dead on the streets of Beijing. Comments/Context: In the spring of 1989, a powerful wave of pro-democracy protests shook Tiananmen Square in Beijing, where student led demonstrations brought millions to the streets demanding additional freedoms and an end to years of heavy handed censorship. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can check out the mini-documentary below: Having retired after 18 years in the police force with the honor of being a decorated sergeant, Ralph Sarchie shows viewers how he takes a methodical, police procedural-like approach to exorcising homes and people. And they want that soul and they want to torment that soul." A new 15 minute featurette takes viewers into the life of Ralph Sarchie, the real-life inspiration for Eric Bana's character in Scott Derrickson’s Deliver Us From Evil.įeaturing footage of the modern-day Ralph Sarchie and mixing in older news footage and personal videos, including a 1992 exorcism, this featurette gives viewers a big taste of the former New York cop and how he approaches his job as a demonologist. "These demons, they're not looking at me as a physical body, they're looking at me as a soul. ![]() ![]() ![]() There weren't hundreds of fashion magazines and blogs. Everybody didn't copy everybody else and it was very individual. People were very creative with their clothes. Those labels were very, very, very exclusive and only wealthy people who lived on the Upper East Side wore them. Young people, unless you came from a ridiculously wealthy family, would never wear Chanel or Gucci. It wasn't label driven and the whole thing in the eighties is kind of a head scratcher. How would you describe the fashion in the city during this time? Ĭarrie wears everything from oversized robes to scrubs to latex (mind you, latex in the summer). A lot of Carrie's clothes, I realized, those were my own clothes, and that's the one thing that I did take directly from my own life and I had the scrubs. You take that inspiration and in the process of writing and you come up with something that is new that has its own energy and its own truth. I drew a lot from real life experiences of myself and people I knew. In terms of the time period, I'm 52 years old. ![]() ![]() Years after their respective returns from Wonderland, Neverland, and Oz, the trio meet here, at Cheshire Crossing-a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers.īut Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy-now teenagers, who’ve had their fill of meddling authority figures-aren’t content to sit still in a classroom. ![]() Originating as fan fiction from the brilliant imagination of Andy Weir, now brought to vivid life by Sarah Andersen, Cheshire Crossing is a funny, breakneck, boundlessly inventive journey through classic worlds as you’ve never seen them before. ![]() In a one-of-a-kind graphic novel collaboration between the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and the beloved illustrator behind Sarah’s Scribbles, Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy team up to save the multiverse, from Wonderland to Neverland and Oz. ![]() |