Sentences with phrase «new novel moves»

From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan's Washington Square, Amy Bloom's new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity.
An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North - West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty.

Not exact matches

This time I came up with a novel new plan: gather all the steaks and have them cooked for us at one restaurant, thus sparing the need to move, or clean up, or waste energy travelling when we could be drinking.
The new decision must make sense of the old ones the best it can as it moves along through novel conditions of ambiguity with new data and new possibilities.
Learning to move in a novel context also relies on the brain's independent control of these sensors, not just of muscles, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology.
That's the conclusion of a new study that uses a novel analytical approach to track how a plague epidemic moved across China beginning in the mid-19th century.
«A new miniature solution for storing renewable energy: Novel two - dimensional, metal organic hybrids efficiently move charge, eventually storing renewable energy.»
Scientists from the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University have developed a new technique that promises to significantly enhance the rate of novel - gene discovery, a process that becomes increasingly difficult as the Human Genome Project moves closer to completion.
In a move that could improve the energy storage of everything from portable electronics to electric microgrids, University of Wisconsin — Madison and Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers have developed a novel X-ray imaging technique to visualize and study the electrochemical reactions in lithium - ion rechargeable batteries containing a new type of material, iron fluoride.
Moving the Needle provides quarterly updates from PATH's Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) on our vaccine development efforts, as well as related supporting work, such as developing human challenge models, building capacity of developing - country vaccine manufacturers, and evaluating new adjuvants and other novel vaccine technologies.
This was a first novel about a young couple, Julia and Evan, who moves to New York City after college.
Andrew Dominik adapted the novel and moved it from Boston in the 70's to New Orleans in 2008.
Brooklyn is John Crowley's eagerly anticipated period drama based on Colm Toibin's award - winning novel, and stars Saoirse Ronan as a young woman from small - town 1950s Ireland who moves to New York and falls in love.
The release of The Kite Runner was held over into the New Year after originally being slated for Boxing Day, and for once this decision seems sound — competition for attention among the major releases may have meant this remarkably moving film was overlooked by most of those who hadn't read the Khaled Hosseini novel.
Laura Dern (Little Fockers) and Sam Trammell (TV's True Blood) also star in this powerfully moving film based on John Green's New York Times best - selling novel.
Based on a novel by Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn is a surprisingly gentle, touching movie about a pretty, kind Irish girl, Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), who moves to New York in 1951 to make a new life for herseNew York in 1951 to make a new life for hersenew life for herself.
The fantasy drama based on Terry Brooks» series of bestselling novels will move to a new home for its second season.
Brandon Wright and others have already weighed in on some of the implications of this move, and how it could hamper efforts to implement the new law and states» ability to meaningfully use ESSA to innovate and adopt novel approaches to school accountability and improvement.
The Invention of Wings By Sue Monk Kidd Penguin • $ 17 • ISBN 9780143121701 With more than a million copies sold since its hardcover publication in January 2014, Kidd's captivating historical novel is already a runaway hit with readers, and this new paperback edition should move it to the top of the list for reading groups everywhere.
A hauntingly beautiful, wickedly funny and devastatingly moving novel of innocence and dreams that announces the arrival of a major new talent to the literary scene
An older woman's keen interest in a young mother who recently moved in across the lake slowly morphs into a dark, dangerous fascination that could destroy both of their lives in Leah Stewart's latest novel, The New Neighbor, set in the small college town of Sewanee, Tennessee.
This movie (based on the 1965 novel by Sol Yurick) took the most terrifying thing about the New York City of that era — roving bands of gangs and criminals behind the sky - high crime rate — and moved it into comic book territory.
«Fiercely intelligent... [An] astonishing new novel... strange, daring, and very moving....
In her funny and moving new novel Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts, comic timing, empathy and emotional wisdom, to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game.
Hailed by critics as «a powerhouse writer» (New York Times) and «a thinking man's bestseller» (Washington Post), T. Jefferson Parker delivers his most elegantly written, suspenseful, and moving novel yet.
The fourth riveting novel in the award - winning, New York Times bestselling Sam Capra series, Sam goes undercover into one of Miami's most prominent and dangerous families, where one wrong move means death.
Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle - aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances - in their house, on the roadway, in the market.
At first glance it seems as if Ullman, whose debut novel was the cult classic, The Bug, has moved into entirely new territory with By Blood.
The novel is alternately told from there different perspectives: June Han, who is orphaned as an 11 - year - old during the Korean War, then eventually moves to New York City after living in an orphanage in Yongin; Hector Brennan, an American GI who works at the orphanage then becomes a janitor in New Jersey; and Sylvie Tanner, the wife of a missionary who helps run the orphanage.
Long - kept secrets, betrayals, and complex relationships between teens and between teens and their parents mark this raucous, sexy, and also moving novel that gives new meaning to going off to college and coming of age.
«An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought» (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership.
The View from Mount Joy, Lorna Landvik's delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about a man, a supermarket, the roads not taken, and the great, unexpected pleasures found in living a good life.
From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Matrimony, a moving new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family trageNew York Times Notable Book Matrimony, a moving new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragenew novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy.
First there's Darcy, a precocious 18 - year - old who has just sold her first novel for a hell of an advance and is forgoing college to move to New York City, where she'll see if she can make it as a writer.
A heroine on the move in search of her own family heritage drives Betina Krahn's zesty new historical novel, The Wife Test.
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 childhoNew Mexico for a new life in San Francisco, launching him on a tragicomic road trip and into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhonew life in San Francisco, launching him on a tragicomic road trip and into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhood.
Saying that a DeLillo novel is his «wisest, richest, funniest and most moving» in years is a strong claim, but the early buzz for this new book, the author's 17th, backs up his publisher's assertion.
Morrell's moving in a new direction with his new novel, Murder as a Fine Art, a meticulously researched historical mystery set in Victorian London.
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things.
Dinaw Mengestu's third novel skillfully blends two disparate narratives — the account of an African revolution and the story of a survivor's new life in America — to create a moving portrait of the dilemma of identity.
A moving, noir - accented crime novel that opens a rare window to an intriguing subject, The Jasmine Trade is a passionate and polished debut from an exciting new author.
A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamann's first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high - pressured Manhattan of the 1980s.
It's a powerful declaration that holds true, as the groundwork for Jones» moving, emotionally complex new novel, An American Marriage, can be traced to seven years ago.
A moving, realistic, but always hopeful narrative novel of the Wu family - father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao - as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and begin a new, free life in the United States.
- Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club «There is a tenderness in this moving, deeply descriptive novel that brings all those frequently hidden qualities of compassion, purity of mind, and, yes, love — the things we used to call the human spirit — into the foreground of our feeling as readers.
Indie publishing moves fast enough that you can cash in on a trend, if you want to try; I personally would find it difficult to spend time on a novel I'm not in love with, but I also believe in stretching yourself into new things.
While I still hope to one day make it into a book store, I found a way to share my novel with the world, and move on to new projects.
We have all moved on to new novels from those we were working on for the Novel Fair back in 2012, and some of our members have been short and long listed in various competitions.
The new model seems to be: try tradpub on one or a few early novels, get reamed by tradpub, move to smallpub / indy for new works, wait a few years to get rights back to that one or few first books, re-issue in indy (subjects aren't usually so topical you can't do this), and then continue the series, if those early novels leant themselves to it, based on real market interest.
If you were the author, and had the cover this beautiful as The Three, a new novel by Sarah Lotz (shown above), would you display on your blog its still or moving version?
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