Sentences with phrase «second novel from»

The Haters by Jesse Andrews For equal parts humor and drama, try the second novel from Andrews, bestselling author of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

The eagerly anticipated second novel from the author of Broken for You - a national best seller and selection of the Today Show Book Club - is a sweeping, gorgeously crafted family story set in the American heartland.

The Expatriates By Janice Y.K. Lee Penguin • $ 16 • ISBN 9780143108429 The second novel from the author of The Piano Teacher is an eye - opening look at three affluent American women — Hilary, Mercy and Margaret — adjusting to life as expats in present - day Hong Kong.

«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.

A luminous second novel from a first - class storyteller.»

When Mountains Move by Julie Cantrell, the second novel from an author who took Christian fiction by storm with her debut (you can read my review here)

That wry title is only a glimmer of the wonderful sense of humor that permeates the second novel from Satyal.

Last night, BookPage had the pleasure of attending the Penguin launch party for Out of the Easy, the second novel from best - selling author Ruta Sepetys!

First up is The Maramon Convention (Scribner), the forthcoming second novel from award - winning writer Abraham Verghese, whose Cutting for Stone was one of our Readers» Choice: Best Books of 2009.

A second novel from Bezos (yes, she's married to that Bezos) is about four women whose lives intersect in different ways.

This stunning second novel from Philipp Meyer (following his critically praised debut, American Rust) combines epic storytelling, Texas tragedy and raw, powerful writing.

The stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak - a heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War.

That's the question posed in this second novel from US author Jessica Strawser.

Visit Carvahall and you'll find featurettes about the Inheritance Trilogy to which the novel Eragon belongs, The Storyteller's Scroll (focusing on turning the novel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini.

Not exact matches

In the future, I may do a giant roundup for fun, but for now, below are 32 of my favorite quotes from the novel that I've highlighted over the years under the broad categories of individualism, second - handedness, and creation.

Currently, novels written by evangelicals tend toward the propagandistic (even to the extent of fictionalizing Bible stories and foretelling the Second Coming) and away from the artful.

The novel's narrator, Jeffery Lockhart, has come to visit his billionaire father and his father's second wife, a woman named Artis who suffers from multiple sclerosis and has reached the point of death.

Second, Tom Jones, foundling, in the final chapters of Henry Fielding's novel, is transformed through incredible coincidences from a bastard into a wealthy gentleman of impeccable virtue; he even gets to marry the girl he loves.

13 Neal Stephenson's acclaimed 1992 novel Snow Crash has inspired two major online creations: Second Life (derived from Stephenson's virtual Metaverse) and Google Earth (from the panoptic Earth application).

A clinical trial of more than 10,000 heart attack patients reported today supports a novel way to protect them from a stroke or a second attack: with drugs that stop inflammation.

The second branch of the combination therapy, the low - dose metronomic chemotherapy, was similarly found to exert its therapeutic effect through a novel, hitherto unrecognized mechanism: The metronomic chemotherapy turned out to not primarily target the tumor cells, but to act on the recruitment of yet another tumor - promoting cell population from the bone marrow.

The group took the first step toward their goal of a novel engineering strategy for yeast by creating what is known as a cDNA library: a collection of over 90 % of the genes from the genome of baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), arranged within a custom segment of DNA so that each gene will be, in one version, overactive within a yeast cell, and in a second version, reduced in activity.

Because the first night sleeping away from home might prove uncomfortable or novel, the study focused on the participants» second night of sleep.

October 1, 2015 University of Chicago researchers awarded $ 3.5 million as part of national consortium to transform diagnosis and treatment of psychotic disorders The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded researchers from the University of Chicago $ 3.5 million as part of the second phase of the Bipolar - Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B - SNIP2)-- a multi-university consortium that aims to establish a new system of diagnosis for psychotic diseases based on biomarkers, and guide the development of novel therapies.

From fun old favorites to new ideas and novel ways to impress your potential partner, here are our top 9 second date ideas:

From old favourites to new and novel ways to impress your potential partner, here are our top 9 second date ideas:

Mr. Pip doesn't start going seriously awry until its second half, when things get more eventful in ways that are compacted from the novel yet seem more disconnected.

The result is less welcoming than you might expect, considering it's the hotly anticipated second feature from Ex Machina director Alex Garland, adapted loosely (and with some controversy) from the 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, with a cast full of interesting women and an Oscar winner in the lead role.

Apprehensions about Peter Jackson's first instalment of The Hobbit films — a trilogy stemming from JRR Tolkien's iconic novel, and the writer / director's second stint in Middle Earth after The Lord of the Rings — are swiftly cast aside in The Desolation of Smaug, endless exposition gratefully replaced by rollicking action.

The plot, which was derived from Jeff VanderMeer's 2013 novel of the same name (the first in a planned trilogy, although Garland wrote his adaptation before the second two books were published), is strikingly similar to Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979).

The series will join a string of high - profile original series on Hulu, including Catch - 22, a six - part limited series from Director, Executive Producer and Star, George Clooney based on the seminal novel of the same name; Castle Rock, Hulu's second project from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King following the success of 11.22.63 that will premiere later this summer; the multi Emmy and Golden Globe Award - winning drama, The Handmaid's Tale; The First, the latest project from Award - winning Creator Beau Willimon, with Academy Award Winner Sean Penn in his first starring TV role; and The Looming Tower, a limited series based on the Pulitzer Prize - winning expose by Lawrence Wright from Academy Award - nominated Writer Dan Futterman and Academy Award and Emmy Award - winning Director Alex Gibney that is now streaming on Hulu.

Considerably more is made of the film's debt to John Ford, specifically The Searchers (a debt underscored in an alternate ending that apes its famous bookend shots), than to the graphic novel series on which Goodman's script is allegedly based, and we learn that the phrase «brutal functionism» was coined to describe the movie's props, including a blade fashioned from Damascus steel that took 100 hours to sculpt for a few seconds of screentime.

In this 1975 adaptation of Chandler's second novel, there is something unhealthy lurking just beyond cinematographer John A. Alonzo's neon - soaked shadows (a far cry from his exquisite Chinatown imagery) and production designer Dean Tavoularis's extravagantly shabby hotel rooms, whorehouses, dance halls, and offices.

What transpires from there (predictable double - crossings, shocking second - and third - act reveals, more galavanting through the streets of Madrid than a Hemingway novel) unfolds without verve, wit, or charm.

Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, John Hodge's (A Life Less Ordinary, The Final Curtain) screenplay is the second straight collaboration with director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later, The Beach), as well as Ewan McGregor.

A pair of gray suede gloves abandoned on a department store counter; a small 35 mm still camera obscuring a woman's face except for her eyes; an electric train set; a finger on the disconnect button of a telephone; an ungloved, well - manicured hand resting briefly on another woman's shoulder: Todd Haynes's Carol is not a Hitchcockian thriller, although it is adapted from the second novel by Patricia Highsmith, whose first, Strangers on a Train, was the basis for one of the master of suspense's great movies.

Following on from this week's poster [see here], StudioCanal has now debuted the second trailer for High - Rise, director Ben Wheatley's adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel; check it out here... High - Rise centers on a new residential tower built on the eve of Thatcher's England, at the site of what will soon become the world's financial -LSB-...]

Ostensibly, the show's «Jonathan Ames» (Schwartzman) is a novelist struggling to come up with his second novel and dealing with his girlfriend's (Olivia Thirlby) exit from his life.

Jettisoning much of the Christian redemption that has flavoured King's late work (not only post - but also pre-accident, curiously enough), the second half of the picture deviates drastically from the second half of the novel, cleverly replacing something that doesn't work because it's boring with something that doesn't work because it's stupid.

The second adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize - winning novel about a populist - leaning stump - thumper modeled after Huey Long, the film garnered attention first for its sterling cast and Tiffany pedigree, then for its sudden disappearance from last year's Oscar slate, only to appear now, without fanfare (save a gala screening at last week's TIFF), in the middle of what's traditionally a dumping ground for dead weight.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, written by Max Landis (American Ultra, Chronicle) and adapted from the wildly popular novels by Douglas Adams («The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy»), returns for its second season Saturday, October 14 at 9 / 8c on BBC AMERICA.

Tom Ripley is the hero of a series of novels from famed author Patricia Highsmith, and this film is the second adaptation (after Rene Clement's 1960 Purple Noon starring Alain Delon) of the first of them.

6:00 pm — TCM — The Heiress Olivia de Havilland's second Academy Award was for this film, based on Henry James» novel Washington Square, about an aging woman (in those days, aging meant like «older than 25») forbidden by her father from loving an earnest but non-socially-equal young man.

I just can't help but be disappointed because the second film actually managed to get me to like a film adapted from a young adult novel.

After making three films from three Tolkien books, Jackson has now made the second of three films from one comparatively brief novel, a 161 - minute would - be epic, in which the strain to stretch and inflate is apparent in virtually every frame.

Based on the graphic novel by Chinese rock star Zheng Jun, this Chinese - American co-production is every bit as generic as it looks, from the second - rate animation to the clichéd story, which unabashedly borrows from «Kung Fu Panda,» «Ratatouille» and other animated films.

Aside from the novel Knockout mode - where bouts play out like thirty second beat «em up brawls thanks to the fighters stripped down health bars - there's not much here to get your gumguard stuck into.

Adapted from Hilary Jordan's 2008 novel, with a cast including Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Garrett Hedlund and singer - songwriter Mary J. Blige, Rees» film tells the intertwining stories of a white family and an African - American family in rural Mississippi after the Second World War.

A second clip has arrived from director Marc Forster's adaptation of the acclaimed Max Brooks novel, WORLD WAR Z, which is led by Brad...

Hulu has released the first trailer and poster for the second season of The Handmaid's Tale, the hit series adapted from Margaret Atwood's classic novel.