Sentences with phrase «powerful novel of»

A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival

From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship....

Daughters of the Witching Hill is a powerful novel of intrigue and revelation.

, and Annan calls it «a powerful novel of acceptance, survival and love.»

Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.

Mothers and Daughters is a powerful novel of women's secrets and strength.»

Stephanie Powell Watts, author of No One Is Coming to Save Us Nick White, author of How to Survive a Summer Past Tense, Present Tension: Powerful Novels of Reconciliation 4:00 - 5:00 pm Nashville Public Library Conference Room 1A

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What makes this novel a powerful description of the dawning new age is the fact that Jim can ward off the power of society to define him, and he does so not by way of a heroic loyalty to conscience (Rousseau, Emerson) or will to power (Nietzsche), but with the inchoate sense of the socially constructed contingency of society's imprisoning walls of honor and shame.

Written as a novel, the book conveys a powerful sense of reality in the lives of people who are not sure what it was that they did and what it was that just happened to them.

By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel's acclaimed historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful advisor to Henry VIII who all but single - handedly disestablished the Catholic Church in England.

Silence ---- a mid — twentieth century novel by a Japanese Catholic about Portuguese Jesuits halfway around the world from their home in the seventeenth century ---- remains a powerful reminder in our still - young century of the importance of faith despite the silence of God.

And graphic novels are too powerful of a tool in our arsenal to be disregarded because of pride or prejudice.

She thinks games can be just as powerful as films or novels, but by experiencing them in a different way the player can become a co-director of the story.

Technologies like self - pumping fluids could be possible and doctors might find they can understand, predict and maybe control the flow of cells — providing a powerful novel approach to medicine.

With the new chips as linchpin, Modha has envisioned a novel computing paradigm, one far more powerful than anything that exists today, modeled on the same magical entity that allowed an impoverished laborer from Mumbai to ascend to one of the great citadels of technological innovation: the human brain.

Dr. Zhuo's team also found a novel molecule, called NB001, which can specifically block neuronal pre-LTP, and has powerful analgesic, or pain - reducing, effects in animal models of chronic pain.

In addition, my collaborators from France performed measurements of stable mercury isotopes — a novel and powerful technique that allowed us to fingerprint various sources of mercury in the environment.

Using one of the world's most powerful soft X-ray microscopes — the Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope (STXM) and X-ray Emission beamlines — at the Canadian Light Source in tandem with one of the world's highest resolution aberration - corrected transmission electron microscopes housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Banerjee and collaborators from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the UIC and Argonne National Laboratory were able to observe the unique electronic properties of their novel vanadium pentoxide and directly prove magnesium - ion intercalation into the material.

«As a powerful model system for studying adult stem cells, Drosophila female GSCs have revealed many novel regulatory strategies which have been later confirmed to be generally true,» adds Su Wang, a co-first author of the paper and also a graduate student in Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at University of Kansas Medical Center.

The Trump administration has acted expeditiously to fill vacancies on top courts around the country, including the Supreme Court and powerful lower courts that could decide the fate of regulatory challenges and novel lawsuits, like localities suing oil companies for damages caused by sea - level rise.

Anthropologist Shara Bailey, an expert in ancient human teeth at New York University in New York City, says that «the barium method is novel and appears to be even more powerful» than previous approaches, adding that despite small sample sizes, «the authors present a strong argument for the utility of this method for extrapolating weaning history.»

To identify novel genes and conserved cellular processes that regulate the biology of K2P channels in vivo we take advantage of the powerful genetic tools available in the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

The SIGMA project aims to develop novel biomedical approaches to treat this devastating disease by applying powerful sequencing technologies to discover the genes and key pathways underlying common varieties of cancer.

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.

In an industry R&D environment, we have extensively applied these methods to the drug discovery process for psychiatric and neurological indications, providing a powerful translational tool to accelerate progression of novel therapeutic agents towards the clinic.

Magnetic resonance techniques enables a wide range of novel applications in chemistry, physics and biomedical sciences, such as powerful imaging tools which have revolutionized medicine.

By understanding multiple different components of fear memory formation and modulation in humans and mice, a number of novel, powerful, and targeted treatment and intervention approaches may become possible.

Furthermore, her innovative ion work demonstrated that soft - landing of mass - selected ions is a powerful technique for preparing novel materials and obtaining a molecular - level understanding of interactions between complex molecules and surfaces.

By identifying novel molecular targets and potential new drugs, this powerful technological structure will contribute significantly to groundbreaking research towards the development of new anti-cancer therapies.

Surrozen is a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing novel regenerative medicines with a focus on unlocking the powerful self - renewal properties of the body through specific control of the Wnt signaling pathway.

«While previous research in evolutionary biology has identified a number of paths for the evolution of cooperation, this study introduces a novel, previously under - appreciated but very powerful mechanism: conditioning acts of extreme cooperation on shared prior experience,» UT's Gavrilets said.

Modeling mRNA expression heterogeneity in tumors through bimodal profiles is a novel powerful approach with the potential to uncover therapeutic targets that benefit subsets of cancer patients.

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.

One of the most novel things Besson does is eschew big fight scenes the more powerful Johansson gets, as what's the point of getting into fisticuffs when you can simply freeze bad guys with your mind?

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.

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.

John Green's novel tells the powerful love story of Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus (Ansel Elgort), two teenagers with cancer.

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 rectitudOF 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 rectitudof honor, desperation and moral rectitude.

Written and directed by Dee Rees from a labyrinthine novel by Hillary Jordan, it's the kind of movie they rarely make any more — heavy on plot and character development and more literary than cinematic — but so skillfully directed, photographed and acted that it sucks you into its powerful emotional storyline from the start and holds interest to the finish.

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.

A mixed bag at best, Ava DuVernay («Selma») helms this adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's classic young adult novel «A Wrinkle in Time» which hammers home its (still) powerful message of individuality over conformity while combining it with a potent...

A mixed bag at best, Ava DuVernay («Selma») helms this adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's classic young adult novel «A Wrinkle in Time» which hammers home its (still) powerful message of individuality over conformity while combining it with a potent «girls rule» empowerment message.

Edge Of Tomorrow, adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel All You Need Is Kill, finds Cruise as Bill Cage, a soldier happy to be working far from the front lines in a brutal war against powerful aliens.

Performed by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air players in 1938, The War of the Worlds, adapted from the H.G. Wells novel of the same title, proves in retrospect that all the digital cinematic wizardry in the world can't trump the powerful simplicity of a solid story and terrific performances.

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.

Gayle Forman's best - selling novel, «If I Stay,» comes to life on screen in a powerful film about love and loss that's heartbreaking, moving and full of hope.

Phillip Noyce's «The Giver,» is thought - provoking sci - fi that stays true to the powerful themes of Lois Lowry's best - selling young adult novel.

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.