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Many readers gave it a thumbs up for an arresting plotline: This powerful novel by Nathan Filer tells nineteen - year - old Matthew Homes» harrowing story.

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I've just finished reading the international best - selling novel Multipliers by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown, and I wanted to share with you first - hand some really powerful lessons I've learned.

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.

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.

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.

The study authors write that using the LSC17 score to single out high - risk patients predicted to have resistant disease «provides clinicians with a rapid and powerful tool to identify AML patients who are less likely to be cured by standard therapy and who could be enrolled in trials evaluating novel upfront or post-remission strategies.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

True to the novel, the direction taken by Bruce Robinson eked its way out from the paper and began shifting between the publication and Kemp's sudden interest in a powerful man's land development scheme that will make both the reporter and the developer (Sanderson, played by Aaron Eckhart) extremely wealthy.

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.

Starring Jake McDorman as Brian Finch, a slacker musician whose life takes a remarkable turn, it began life as a novel, The Dark Fields, by Dubliner Alan Glynn before becoming a powerful big - screen thriller starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.

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.

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.

Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) against showcases her versatility in this quietly powerful British romance adapted from a novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement).

Mike Flanagan adapts King's novel to construct a tale that's perhaps too theatrical for the movie (most of the action takes place inside a single room), but given top performances by Carla Gugino as the «controlled and confined» woman and Bruce Greenwood as the all - powerful controlling force, «Gerald's Game» is a contest that's worth your playing time.

Hardy's novel introduces a powerful female lead who was not defined by her male suitors, but more by her wits, intelligence and business acumen.

Written and directed by James Ponsoldt, the adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel centers on a recent college graduate (Watson) who's hired by a powerful tech company, called The Circle, co-owned by the charismatic Hanks.

This is a powerful way of not only getting to know your students, but also tying in the backpack's contents with a class novel, science experiment, or any standard that you're teaching — simply by aligning items in the bag with what students need to know.

Fyodor Dostoevsky is often cited as one the greatest novelists who ever wrote about the problem of evil and this innovative short film is inspired by his powerful novel The Brothers Karamazov.

The BMW X3 Police car is distinguished by powerful and novel arranged LED lights in both the closed and opened tailgate.

My first published novel, back in 1991, was The Serpent's Crown, which was called «powerful, riveting and timely» by the New York Times Book Review.

This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN / Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.

Arrowood is a powerful and resonant novel that examines the ways in which our lives are shaped by memory.

This powerful novel is flawlessly translated by Ann Goldstein.

News of the World by Paulette Jiles Named the best book of 2016 by the editors of BookPage, Jiles» powerful historical novel offers an evocative look at post-Civil War Texas, a rugged land still ravaged by Indian raids.

A powerful debut novel about a girl's coming of age — and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war.

A powerful story enriched by fascinating elements of Hawaiian ecology, culture, and warfare, this captivating and dramatic debut from Austin Aslan is the first of two novels.

Evergreen By Rebecca Rasmussen Vintage • $ 15.95 • ISBN 9780345806710 Coming in at # 43 on the BookPage list of Best Books of 2014, Rasmussen's quietly powerful second novel opens in the wilds of Minnesota, where Eveline and her new husband Emil settle in a remote cabin.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North By Richard Flanagan Vintage • $ 15.95 • ISBN 9780804171472 Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2014, Flanagan's powerful novel tells the story of the WWII «bridge over the River Kwai» through the eyes of an Australian surgeon.

The title of this impressive and emotionally powerful novel is inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem «We Wear the Mask» (1896): «We wear the mask that grins and lies...»

A powerful and perceptive literary masterwork, author Thrity Umrigar's extraordinary novel demonstrates how the lives of the rich and poor are intrinsically connected yet vastly removed from each other, and how the strong bonds of womanhood are eternally opposed by the divisions of class and culture.

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.

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.

Coming on the heels of two other Iraq War novels, the powerful Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and the blackly comic Fobbit (both 2012), is this first novel by a former soldier.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi This powerful debut novel shares stories of the interconnected generations impacted by the legacy of slavery.

Centering on Rachel, the daughter of a black serviceman and a Danish mother, this powerful novel is told from multiple viewpoints, aptly recorded by three readers, with Bauer playing Rachel.

Englander's relatively short but immensely powerful first novel is set in 1976 at the start of the Dirty War, a 7 - year campaign by the Argentine military government against suspected subversives.