Sentences with phrase «powerful novel based»
A spare yet powerful novel based on the stories of the author's mother, who escaped to the U.S. from Nazi Germany at age 12.
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Someday by Carnegie Medal Award nominated author Corinna Turner is a powerful novel based on a horrifying real event: the kidnapping of 272 Nigerian schoolgirls on April 14th, 2014.
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Join us for a discussion of a broad range of novel functional reagents and demonstration of their use in cell - based immunotherapy models using powerful cytometric instrumentation.
Based on the acclaimed novel «Project X» by Jim Shepard, this unflinching look at adolescence explores how the powerful bonds of childhood friendship and search for belonging can become a matter of life or death.
When an Academy Award ® - winning filmmaker takes one of the world's most beloved musicals based on one of the most powerful novels ever written and casts it with cream - of - the - crop performers, including a former Oscar ® host, an Oscar ® - winning actor and two Oscar ® - nominated actresses, how could it fail come February?
Based on the acclaimed novel by the «Queen of Icelandic Crime,» this atmospheric chiller is both a hair - raising ghost story and a powerful tale of life beyond death.
The Hunter (BluRay)(2011, Daniel Nettheim) Based on the acclaimed novel by Julia Leigh, The Hunter is a powerful psychological drama which takes us deep into the stunning Tasmanian wilderness.
Based off of the novel written by David Ebershoff, director Tom Hooper (Les Miserables) and actors Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Ex-Machina) beautifully illustrate the powerful Read More →
Based off of the novel written by David Ebershoff, director Tom Hooper (Les Miserables) and actors Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Ex-Machina) beautifully illustrate the powerful true story of Lili Elbe in their new film The Danish Girl.
With a screenplay by Gary Hawkins (THE ROUGH SOUTH OF LARRY BROWN), JOE is based on the novel by the late Larry Brown (Big Bad Love, Facing the Moon), the former Mississippi firefighter renowned for his powerful, gothic storytelling and universal themes of honor, desperation and moral rectitude.
With a screenplay by Gary Hawkins, JOE is based on the novel by the late Larry Brown (Big Bad Love, Facing the Moon), the former Mississippi firefighter renowned for his powerful, gothic storytelling and universal themes of honor, desperation and moral rectitude.
Directed by Bong Joon - ho (The Host), and based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, the film is rich in atmosphere and features powerful performances from some very fine actors, including Chris Evans, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris and Jamie Bell.
Based on the novel by Paulo Lins (and adapted by Bráulio Mantovani), Meirelles turned an unflinching eye on a world forgotten by the wealthy and powerful, ignored by police and indifferent to law and order.
Based on the bestselling novel by M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans tells the powerful story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Australia who discover a baby adrift in a rowboat.
The film will no doubt be a powerful and fascinating account of the horrific circumstances, and will be based on the novel by Mara Leveritt.
That trajectory seemed perfect for The Circle, a film with his biggest cast yet (Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Karen Gillan, John Boyega, etc) based on a well - received novel with plenty of relevance to our current societal fears surrounding uber - powerful tech companies with charismatic CEOs, but the final product is a complete disaster.
Based on a true story, this powerful historical novel tells about the Turkish genocide of the Armenians.
The blind quest for money, the primacy of the drug trade, the concealment of base impulses behind the rhetoric of freedom: in River of Smoke the nineteenth and twenty - first centuries meet, and the result is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary resonance.
Among the powerful narratives it channels are George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, Philip K. Dick's alternative - reality fiction The Man in the High Castle (as well as the current award - winning Amazon TV series based on the book) and the «fake news» discussed daily by our current POTUS.
Although powerful journals like Nature and Science advocated Pounds» climate hypothesis and persistently maligned the disease hypotheses, and funds were continuously diverted to test Pounds» ever - changing climate hypotheses, only Laurance's 1996 hypothesis of a rapidly spreading novel disease has stood the test of time, simply because it was based on rigorous science.