![]() ![]() Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. ![]() ![]() Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Although she writes under the pen name J.K. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Moana approaches new experiences and tasks with the utmost seriousness and will stand her ground to fight for what she values even when all seems lost. Though she has moments of self-doubt, she has great pride in who she is, and is generally too stubborn to back away from new challenges. She is sea-loving, headstrong, strong-willed, practically fearless, and physically capable. PersonalityĪs described by Gramma Tala, Moana "stands out from the crowd". ![]() When her island is threatened by a dark force, Moana sets sail outside the reef and her comfort zone to right a wrong, save her people, and find the answers she's been searching for her whole life. ![]() Background Official Description Moana is the vibrant, tenacious and optimistic daughter of the Chief of Motunui, thriving on her island but drawn to the ocean. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Liew crafts him into a fully realised character.” -The Economist “Brilliantly inventive….Charlie is mild but steel-spined, observant and proud with masterful economy of detail-an arched eyebrow here, his head at a resigned angle there-Mr. ![]() The color palettes, the paper quality, the incorporation of photographs and sketches, they all combine with the text to provide a complex view of Charlie Chan Hock Chye that has a strong sense of history behind it.” -The A.V. ![]() A beautifully multidimensional portrait of the cartoonist. “A fascinating look at a cartoonist’s growth over time and how his creative output reflects the culture around him, and Liew tells Chan’s story in a way that only comic books can…. It’s funny and rich and satisfying, and one of the best comics of the year." -Slate a multilayered masterpiece of comic-book and real-world history, a portrait of the postwar world made in a thrilling postmodern style. a mercurial delight." -The New York Times "" hugely ambitious, stylistically acrobatic work. Easily the first comics masterwork of 2016.” -The Beat “A fascinating bildungsroman that rivals other Eastern-based works like Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life, with a dash of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay…. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story of Madoc originated in a 15th century poem. ‘The First Voyage’ Christopher Columbus bidding farewell to the Queen of Spain on his departure for the New World, August 3, 1492. No conclusive evidence has been found for this idea so far, but it is an intriguing possibility. It has also been suggested that several Native American tribes may be descended from the members of his expedition. He is said to have gone to the New World with a fleet of ships between the years 11 AD. There is, however, another European who is also claimed to have reached the New World before 1492, the Welsh Prince Madoc (Madog). ![]() Most historians now agree that the first known Europeans in the New World were the Vikings led by Leif Erikson around 1000 AD. The Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (1451-1506 AD) has already been dethroned as the European discoverer of the Americas. ![]() ![]() ![]() This orchestration of Mansfield Park follows a year in which Dove won a BASCA for The Monster in the Maze, a community opera commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in three separate productions. The commission also allows a continued relationship between the works of Austen, one of the world’s most recognised and admired authors, and Jonathan Dove, one of Britain’s most successful living composers. It can be imagined as Mansfield Park itself. The scale of this new version, with 13 musicians instead of piano, is ideally suited to the theatre of The Grange, and its setting in the magical estate hidden away in the Hampshire countryside, famed for its Greek Revival architecture and overlooking an ornamental lake. ![]() Mansfield Park was originally written by Jonathan Dove, to a libretto by Alasdair Middleton based on the novel by Jane Austen, for a cast of ten singers with four hands at one piano. This newly-orchestrated version of Mansfield Park was commissioned from Jonathan Dove by The Grange Festival to celebrate the serendipity of two significant milestones for Hampshire occurring in 2017: the 200th anniversary of the death of Austen, and the inaugural season of The Grange Festival in the heart of the county with what promises to be a highly entertaining musical staging of one of her best-loved novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() He hatches a plan with a group of men to dislodge the blockage. The people inside the store shut the doors and agree to wait until the mist has passed.ĭavid discovers that the generator’s exhaust is blocked. A man runs into the store and claims that his friend disappeared into the mist. As they wait, the crowd notices a strange mist descending on the town outside. They enter the busy supermarket, which is using a generator for power. Before he leaves, he notices a strange mist crossing the lake and wonders whether it has anything to do with the local military base, where the military works on something called Project Arrowhead.ĭavid, Billy, and Brent reach Bridgton. In recent years, David and Brent have been involved in a legal dispute about the property line, but David puts aside their differences given the nature of the emergency. He takes his son Billy and his neighbor Brent. When a severe storm brings down trees and cuts off the power to the houses, David decides to go into the town of Bridgton for supplies. The Draytons live on the side of a lake outside of the town. ![]() David Drayton is a commercial artist who lives in a small town in Maine with his wife Steff and their son Billy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though aspects of Mqhele's personality and past make her uncomfortable, Hlomu is happy. A young woman named Mahlomu meets Mqhele Zulu and they fall in love. ![]() ![]() Hlomu The Wife is essentially a love story that takes its cues from life in a South African township. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Also if you ever find Brishen please tell him I’m looking for him and so is the whole fandom cuz I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF THAT MAN! He is so pure, so is his bond with Ildiko who’s a total badass with an appearance of a delicate duchess. Heading to Eidolon next cuz can’t wait to know more about these two. Brishen and ldiko are very much in the same boat as he too is born into a royal family as a. ![]() I don’t think I disliked anything in this book, finished it in 3 days for crying out loud (it’s a 1 sitting book but girl’s gotta work □♀️) Brishen Khaskem is a dark gray presence that has fangs as teeth. Brishen and Ildiko are amazing as a team, but their love is different from the couples that I’ve read before. Things get real after the first half, and it’s exhilarating to say the least. It’s a slow-burn romance with really amazing characters. Radiance - Brishen and Ildiko By LiberLibelula Published: Favourites 5. I dig that vibe so much! He’s a proper Duke as much as she a Duchess and yet they respect each other so much I melted ok. ![]() They become friends with complete mutual respect and almost have that BFF vibe roasting each other. Human woman Ildiko is married off to Kai prince (not human race) as a strategic alliance between two kingdoms. World building aside, the friends-to-lovers trope is what hooked me right from the first page. And I literally am writing this Just after finishing the Epilogue. Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. I get why bookstagram has been raving about Radiance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those stories may work on your rich friends, but they don't work on the rest of us. ''The guy in Youngstown, Ohio, who's been laid off at the steel mill and has to make his mortgage payments- don't tell me he doesn't want to work. ''Don't give me that crap,'' an angry O'Neill responded. On January 28, 1986, Reagan spoke up at a briefing and complained about able-bodied welfare recipients. His final budget battle did not go by without one last confrontation between the Speaker and the President. ''O'Neill's Democrats were united again when work on the budget began the following spring. The best part of the biography for me was the chapters relating his battles against Reagan: Farrell does a great job at analyzing his New Deal philosophy coupled with his Boston smoked filled back room dealing style in the 40's up to the 80's. ![]() Tip O'Neill had a fascinating yet complicated life. I found the narrative well balanced and also very enlightening when it comes to the relationship between lawmakers in the House among themselves and with the executive branch. I read this book because I really enjoyed Farrell's biography of Nixon (2017) and I admire his craft. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has authored dozens of books, including Metaphors we Live By with co-author Mark Johnson, Moral Politics, and most recently, Don’t Think of An Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate. Lakoff retired as Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley in 2016 and is currently Director of the Center for the Neural Mind & Society. Often referred to as the “father of framing,” Professor George Lakoff is a renowned cognitive linguist whose work has contributed to a new understanding of the ways that conceptual frames and metaphors shape our social and political lives. ![]() |