Sentences with phrase «sets of story books»

Resources include sets of story books, posters and cards to mount on classroom walls, and sets of flash cards to help students master sight words, letters, and their sounds.

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Neither is geologist Liz Hajek, but she makes an exception for this book: «I don't generally gravitate toward fiction, but this collection of short stories, set in a variety of compelling places and time periods, is so creative and rich, it's been really fun to read.»

One of them was the mid-1990s hit Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, in which the author, a Brazilian CEO, describes running a democratic, open - book company in which people set their own salaries.

Set in Boston during the events leading up to the Revolutionary War, the book tells the story of a fourteen - year - old apprentice silversmith.

Unfortunately, the history books of formal education almost always overlook the more human stories of America's bloodiest conflict to focus on battles, dates and generals, which is what Uncivil sets out to correct.

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

Esther 1 introduces the reader to the main characters of the book of Esther, and sets up the plot for this amazing story.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

The book provides a carefully thought - through programme of sex education based on a set of stories.

But in fact it is an unsentimental and interesting book, which sets out the facts of this unusual story very well.

My review of a book that reports the story of a man who died in 1940 does not in any way purport to compromise what, in 1965, Blessed Paul VI set down in Nostra Aetate, especially no. 4: «In her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.»

I set up an excellent home library filled with books I love, and will spend all of next year getting caught up on all the stories I haven't read yet.

The book juxtaposes the everyday rhythms of childhood (setting the table, listening to a story from her mom, struggling at school), with fantastic creatures and travel through time and space.

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Today's crib bedding sets and baby accessories are available in any number of familiar comic book, cartoon, and Disney story characters.

Just this month, the latest salvo — Leslie Bennetts's book «The Feminine Mistake,» a call - to - work warning women about the long - term costs of staying at home — hit the shelves with a bang, setting off another round of news stories, talk shows and cyberspace debates about the progress on the battlefront.

Leap Frog has come out with a unique set of interactive story books for your toddler.

For their prizes, each was given a branded VFL Ghana bag containing; an android kiddy tablet, 10 exercise books, an Ewe — English Dictionary, Epistles to my Bubune (collections of letters), The Bloody Ingrate (story book), Nsempiisms (A collection of poetry, storytelling and satire), Love brewed in the African Pot (Africa's sensational film hit — Now a comic strip), This is Ghana (Tourism book), a food flask, a cutlery set, a portable radio set and a watch.

Storytelling is Gordon Thomas» forte; he paints a superbly evocative portrait of the head of MI6 to set the scene in a weighty book bursting with hitherto untold stories.

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I've stayed in many a beach house with books for borrowing but this is by far the most visually appealing set of stories I've seen!

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Further pressing the internationality of this story, the original book this film is based on, Ismail Kadaré's Broken April, is set in Albania, though little else has been changed in the adaptation.

Good sci - fi has all these things, of course, but «bigger» isn't better, and most of the «big» idea movies use «the future» as a setting for action and adventure, whereas true sci - fi films (and books) use that setting to tell human stories in new ways; human relationships (with others, with self, with the environment, etc...) are are the core of the best sci - fi movies we've seen.

The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 continues to amaze with its wonderful story, its vibrant world and its classic yet fresh fantasy setting.

For Haynes» latest, an adaptation of Brian Selznick's children's book Wonderstruck, the pair had to find a way to translate to visual style of the author, who used illustrations to tell one half of the story, set in the 1920s, and prose for the second, set 50 years later.

Adapted from stories drawn from Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval book «The Decameron,» the film draws humor from the tension between its setting and the way the characters speak and interact as a story unfolds about a fugitive servant (Dave Franco) who pretends to be a deaf - mute to be taken in by a convent that includes three young nuns (Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci), each dealing with personal crises of their own.

Set on the world of Sakaar — known dearly to comic book fans as the world the Hulk gets whisked off to in the now classic story arc «Planet Hulk» — Thor: Ragnarok and its location open up unlimited potential for the Marvel Cinematic Universe; it is also the planet where the Hulk had his son, Skaar, after all.

Embracing the uncanny valley elements of the story and taking even subtle cues from the previous iterations of the android Alita's tale, the trailer for this lesser - known comic book adaptation sets the stage for a new wave of live action anime films.

Along the way, we touch on the abandoned film project that Lee was working on with screenwriter Michael Arndt, how The Book Of Life affected this production, the evolution of the idea from the initial spark to the finished film, how Adrian Molina got involved in the project, how Lee Unkrich went from editor to director and how he edits his own films, how Darla got a credit as «Digital Angel» on the original Toy Story, hiding easter eggs in an international setting, and working with Michael GiacchinOf Life affected this production, the evolution of the idea from the initial spark to the finished film, how Adrian Molina got involved in the project, how Lee Unkrich went from editor to director and how he edits his own films, how Darla got a credit as «Digital Angel» on the original Toy Story, hiding easter eggs in an international setting, and working with Michael Giacchinof the idea from the initial spark to the finished film, how Adrian Molina got involved in the project, how Lee Unkrich went from editor to director and how he edits his own films, how Darla got a credit as «Digital Angel» on the original Toy Story, hiding easter eggs in an international setting, and working with Michael Giacchino.

Gist: Set in a small West Virginia mining town in the foothills of Appalachia, the book tells the story of small - time drug dealer Cole Freeman (Trotter), who is driven to action and redemption in response to a set of unexpected circumstances that threaten to tear apart the close - knit fabric of family, friendship, land and history that binds everyone, and everything, he lovSet in a small West Virginia mining town in the foothills of Appalachia, the book tells the story of small - time drug dealer Cole Freeman (Trotter), who is driven to action and redemption in response to a set of unexpected circumstances that threaten to tear apart the close - knit fabric of family, friendship, land and history that binds everyone, and everything, he lovset of unexpected circumstances that threaten to tear apart the close - knit fabric of family, friendship, land and history that binds everyone, and everything, he loves.

Herman Melville, onetime sailor, never set foot on Nantucket before publishing Moby - Dick, but in In The Heart Of The Sea — which adapts Nathaniel Philbrick's non-fiction book about the Essex whaleship disaster as a hokey origin story for Melville's novel — he arrives on the island, hoping to find the man who had been the...

Based on the twisted and popular»90s comic book franchise of the same name, «Preacher,» set to debut on Sunday, May 22nd at 10:00 p.m. ET / PT, is created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, and is the story of Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that allows him to develop a highly unconventional power.

The story is set in a kind of alternate - reality Cleveland by way of Black Mirror, where (as in the source material) books have been outlawed.

Pynchon's book, and this film, are loving spoofs of the classic detective story, though set in 1970 rather than the 40s.

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Based on the Deborah Ellis book of the same name, the story is set in Afghanistan where Parvana lives with her family in a Taliban controlled town.

Margot plays the mother of the titular Christopher Robin, a new type of origin story focusing on the relationship between AA Milne (played by Domhnall Gleeson) and his son, who inspired his legendary Winnie The Pooh books, set in the 1920s.

When I learned that Tangle would take place in an adjacent setting and revisit some of the same characters, I was uneasy about the prospect of yet more anthropomorphic musings — worries that were justified right out of the gate, as the book's framing device is a man telling the novel's story to a squirrel, and getting some cheeky squirrel answers in return.

The story is set in the aftermath of World War II and follows a journalist Juliet Ashton (James) who decides to write about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club formed on Guernsey Island during wartime.

At a recent roundtable interview, Anderson and production designer Adam Stockhausen talked about how the project first came together, what inspired the story, the influence of Viennese writer Stefan Zweig's work on the multi-layered storytelling approach, their collaboration on the vision for the movie, how they created this rich, lush cinematic world and brought the audience into it, how Anderson cultivated a communal atmosphere on set and made available a large selection of books and films to the cast during production, Stockhausen's favorite day of shooting, and the challenge of using different aspect ratios.

The film is set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, framed by the story of a writer (Dougray Scott) researching a book about Escrivá in 1975.

With the first trailer for Mowgli set to arrive later today, a selection of images have arrived online giving us our first look at Andy Serkis» upcoming adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book; check them out here... Blending live action and performance capture, the story follows the upbringing of the human child Mowgli (Rohan Chand)-LSB-...]

Those books and some later titles, Tomato Red (1998) and The Death of Sweet Mister (2001), fit in with a sub-genre identified by Woodrell when he was reviewing Joe Lansdale's Mucho Mojo, calling it «country noir», stories of «dark suspense» set in «rural and small - town America» (1).

Based on the 2007 book of the same title — by author André Aciman (who plays a small role in its adaptation)-- Call Me by Your Name tells the story of a romance set in the summer of 1983 against a backdrop of lush, halcyon Italian landscapes.

«Mr. Pip,» a lower profile adaptation of a less famous book, doesn't carry the same risks as «The Lovely Bones» did, but this gimmicky story set during Papua New Guinea's civil war is similarly overblown, reaching for emotional effect in a fatally hamfisted fashion.

The Shape of Water wears its classic Hollywood influences on its sleeve, up to and including a story that openly riffs on the 1954 sci - fi - horror classic The Creature From the Black Lagoon, a black - and - white dance sequence straight out a Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire picture, and a main location set over a cinema that's playing Henry Koster's 1960 biblical epic The Book of Ruth.

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Set in racially charged Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s, the story, based on the book of the same name, peels back the layers of prejudice and social injustice as carefully as Minnie Jackson (Octavia Spencer) prepares an onion.