Sentences with phrase «beautiful novel for»

With wry candor and tender humor, acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.

With wry candor and tender humor, Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.

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Instead, I adhered to the novel idea that it was more important for buildings to be beautiful, harmonious, and ennobling than to be cutting edge.

More a beautiful character study than a plot - driven novel, Shine On is worth reading simply for hours spent with Colwin's exquisite descriptions of the physical and emotional world.

One Community One Book - The «One Community One Book» selection for May 2018 is Ernest Hemingway's moving and beautiful novel of love and war in World War I Italy.

For me Planet Books is the best bookstore I know, I have bought shelves of very heavy but beautiful art, fashion, design and photography books, as well as most recently a host of David Sedaris novels.

Shark Dating Simulator XL is a quick - to - play comedy visual novel with colorful cartoon characters and a multiple choice storyline with consequences for Meet with hot and beautiful single Russian women and girls who are seeking true love on the world's trusted dating site.

And after I spent almost 2 hours watching this movie, I must gave a big two thumbs up to Ang Lee for making a beautiful visualization of this novel..

Veteran screenwriter Goldsman (an Oscar winner for A Beautiful Mind, and definitely not one for Batman & Robin) has given himself quite a challenge for his directorial debut, taking on Mark Helprin's epic fantasy novel set in an alternative, magic - filled New York City (and spanning the entire 20th century) with a relatively low sub - $ 50 million budget.

This entertaining film, from a delicious early novel by Henry James, takes place in a New England Arcadia that stands for everything beautiful, pure, and good.

The River — Jean Renoir's beautiful adaptation of a Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus) novel (she wrote the screenplay as well) about a British colonial family in India is lushly romantic while managing to, for the most part, avoid the pitfalls of imperialism that drag down The Darjeeling Limited.

First up, a press release from Alcon Entertainment reveals that they've found the leads for their hopeful «Twilight» competition, «Beautiful Creatures,» an adaptation of the novels by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, which is being written and directed by Richard LaGravanese («P.S. I Love You «-RRB-.

Technically, True Grit is less a movie remake than a second try at filming the wonderful Charles Portis source novel, but the irony here is that the Coens» Ladykillers is a more ambitious, clever concept for a film than their admittedly beautiful western.

It's no surprise that Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, writers and executive producers of NBC's emotionally charged drama This Is Us have done such a remarkable job at translating Becky Albertalli's beautiful novel, Simon vs the homo sapiens agenda for the screen.

Based on the young adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is a story of a young man named Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) who falls for the «different» new girl in school, Lena (Alice Englert).

Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy) directs his own graphic novel, and the result is a beautiful and impressive looking film that lacks substance and fails to develop any characters for us to care about.

For Let the Right One In, director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist (who adapted his 2004 novel) employ most of the usual vampire «rules,» as well as some overly familiar plot arcs, but they present them in a unique, surprisingly beautiful manner.

He directed a music video for The Coup's «Me And Jesus The Pimp In A»79 Granada Last Night,» upon which the novel Too Beautiful For Words was basfor The Coup's «Me And Jesus The Pimp In A»79 Granada Last Night,» upon which the novel Too Beautiful For Words was basFor Words was based.

Cadillac surprised the world with its beautiful ELR plug - in hybrid coupe, featuring knockout styling that turns heads and novel technology that opens wallets — but then it surprised the world again by pricing it out of consideration for anyone who'd likely buy one.

This is a beautiful, sad novel about race and loneliness, filled with lines that demand to be reread for their elegance.

Other authors you can see live and in person: Chris Pavone, author of The Expats; Padgett Powell, author of You & Me; Jay Jennings, editor of Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany; Amy Franklin - Willis, author of The Lost Saints of Tennessee; Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia; Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy; Katherine Paterson, the former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature who is beloved for her novel Bridge to Terabithia; David Maraniss, author of Barack Obama: The Story; Dan Chaon, author of Stay Awake: Stories; Alice Randall, author of Ada's Rules: A Sexy, Skinny Novel; Ta - Nehisi Coates, author of The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and the Unlikely Road to Manhood (and a contributor to The Atlantic); Sharon Creech, author of The Great Unexpected (and Walk Two Monovel Bridge to Terabithia; David Maraniss, author of Barack Obama: The Story; Dan Chaon, author of Stay Awake: Stories; Alice Randall, author of Ada's Rules: A Sexy, Skinny Novel; Ta - Nehisi Coates, author of The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and the Unlikely Road to Manhood (and a contributor to The Atlantic); Sharon Creech, author of The Great Unexpected (and Walk Two MoNovel; Ta - Nehisi Coates, author of The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and the Unlikely Road to Manhood (and a contributor to The Atlantic); Sharon Creech, author of The Great Unexpected (and Walk Two Moons!)

The novel comes with a beautiful cover designed by Birmingham graphic artist Sean Strong, who is already working on the next book as well as re-designing the cover for Buried in Time.

The hit online comic is now a beautiful high quality hardcover graphic novel, perfect for teen readers and manga fans with a durable library - quality binding.»

She is also the author of the Beautiful Americans novels for young adults (Penguin / Razorbill) and has written nonfiction for magazines and blogs.

Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, earned the young writer comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald, and Naipaul, and garnered ecstatic critical praise and awards around the world for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience.

Crackling with atmosphere and eccentric characters, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors explores the magic of nature and the power of redemption in a novel as beautiful and unpredictable as lightning itself.

Beginning amid the decadent glamour of China in the 1930s and ending in the 1980s in Hong Kong, this brilliant novel, which formed the basis for the award - winning movie, is the passionate story of an opera student who falls in love with his best friend, and the beautiful woman who comes between them.

Alan Averill is the Grand Prize winner in the general fiction category for his novel, «The Beautiful Land,» while Regina Sirois was awarded the Grand Prize in the young adult fiction group for her novel, «On Little Wings.»

Hammett's novel, set in San Francisco in the 1920s, introduces cynical detective Sam Spade, who becomes involved in the search for the legendary falcon created for Emperor Charles V. Caught up in a deadly conspiracy involving the beautiful but treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, the formidable Kasper Gutman, and the slippery Joel Cairo, Spade must see beyond their lies and betrayals to uncover the truth, if not the prize.

Set on campus, Stone's novel features Maud, smart, beautiful, and brimming with passion for her convictions and her married professor; the world Stone creates here is full of ominous foreboding and populated by characters familiar to readers of his novels: lost souls who have lost their faith and others with false faith.

This beautiful novel examines a Southern tradition — the do - it - yourself, at - home wedding — in all of its intricacies, from the cast of characters who make the big day a reality and the new relationships that form in such intimate settings to the surprises that wedding guests will tell stories about for years to come.

Praised for writing that is «vivid and distinct» (Library Journal, starred review) and «exquisite in its simplicity and eloquence» (Kirkus Reviews), Favel Parrett delivers a stunningly beautiful novel about the bond forged between two unlikely and unforgettable strangers.

This intriguing, beautiful novel is remarkable for its unusual but attentively structured plot: a writer living in coastal British Columbia, currently thwarted by writer's block, one day finds a collection of materials contained in a lunchbox that has washed up on the beach, and what's inside envelops her in the details of someone else's life.

«Reading this beautiful novel, I felt I was watching a brilliant mind invent new tools for thinking.

Fierce Kingdom is the Alabama author's third novel and was sold (as Beautiful Things) for almost $ 1 million prior to the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair.

But Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven brings a breath of fresh air to the genre with her fourth novel, a beautiful and deeply felt story that uses its dystopian setting to explore our very human need for shared culture, art and stories.

From Flannery O'Connor and Rona Jaffe Award winner Lori Ostlund, a deeply moving and beautiful debut novel about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a new life in San Francisco, launching him on a tragicomic road trip and into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhood.

Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, BREAKING TWIG is a coming - of - age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautiful, calculating woman who can, with a mere look, send the meanest cur in Sugardale, Georgia running for its life.

Also, as Melissa Williams she's a book cover artist and designed the beautiful cover for my novel The Brevity of Roses.

As a bookseller, I live for novels like Cutting for Stone - big, fat, beautiful novels as beguiling and enchanting as babies, as wise and as generous as old sages.

Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.

I've heard of Jason Gurley for some time, because of his beautiful covers and his association with Hugh Howey (Gurley's bestselling Greatfall novel is a Wool fanfic).

You are hopeful that your friends, family, author mates, network of peers will spread the word that the beautiful novel that you've written, edited, proofed, wept over, stayed up all night until the birds began tweeting, abandoned and picked up again, made untold sacrifices for is finally — FINALLY going to see light of day!

• For the Best Graphic Novel of 2013, GoodReads members selected Beautiful Creatures: The Manga (Yen Press), Cassandra Jean's adaptation of the bestselling young - adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret SNovel of 2013, GoodReads members selected Beautiful Creatures: The Manga (Yen Press), Cassandra Jean's adaptation of the bestselling young - adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Snovel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

Good ol' fiction: The River at Night by Erica Ferencik The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable Before I Go by Colleen Oakley Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan by James Michener We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard Since She Went Away by David Bell Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Decent Proposal by Kemper Donovan The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison Happy Family by Tracy Barone Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard Saving Grace by Jane Green After You by Jojo Moyes Britt - Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell The Passenger by Lisa Lutz The Girls by Emma Cline Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris California by Edan Lepucki Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak Christmas in London by Anita Hughes

True English classical novel with a wonderful style of narration, a beautiful love story of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy might be interesting for readers of all ages.

Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks Inferno: A Novel by Dan Brown Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn Hopeless by Colleen Hoover The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Hit by Will Robie Wait for Me by Elisabeth Naughton Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel by Matthew Quick

I have loaded onto my Ematic via ADE the novel MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS that I borrowed from my library.

As the stigma surrounding self - publishing continues to dissipate (indie best - seller Jamie McGuire recently announced that her novel «Beautiful Redemption» has made it to Wal - Mart's coveted shelves — the mark of a true commercial success), it's become a viable source of income for a lot of authors.

The store is spread across nine floors, around four of which saw a long, snaking queue for Ahmet Umit, who was signing copies of his new novel Farewell My Beautiful Motherland, at his launch earlier this month.