Sentences with phrase «with excellent novels»

In Gold Fame Citrus, Watkins follows through on her literary promise with an excellent novel, set in a drought - ridden California in a future that feels alarmingly near.

So before I read this novel, that is what the title conjured up for me and that certainly doesn't fit with this excellent novel!

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Not only do figures like Mark Zuckerberg and President Obama credit fiction with expanding their outlook and exercising their minds, but science even suggests that a great novel can boost empathy, a hallmark of excellent leaders.

«Being highly active against drug - resistant strains of M. tuberculosis, this novel class of drugs provides us with an excellent opportunity to treat tuberculosis.»

Writer - director Derek Cianfrance knew he was dealing with a story full of coincidences when he adapted M.L. Stedman's novel The Light Between Oceans, so he avoided melodrama by holding himself and his excellent actors in check.

Daniel Radcliffe, in another interesting pick, takes the lead role, with Juno Temple, Max Minghella, Kelli Garner and Joe Anderson among the supporting cast, and the script comes from «In Treatment» writer Keith Bunin, so don't expect it to be a simple exercise in scares, especially given the excellent source novel.

The visual novel's easy listening and the trials» techno music fit perfectly with the game's style, and the main theme is an excellent electronica take on spy or heist music.

«God's Pocket» will be directed by John Slattery, who you know as «Mad Men»» s silver fox Roger Sterling but who is making the move to directing (having helmed several excellent episodes of the series in which he stars), adapting a Pete Dexter novel about Mickey (Hoffman), whose attempts to move on after the suspicious, and not unwelcome, death of his unstable stepson are frustrated by a local reporter with a hunch.

«Jeffrey Westhoff on «The Boy Who Knew Too Much»»: The veteran Chicago film critic chats with Indie Outlook about his excellent debut novel.

Based on the 2010 novel by Richard C. Moranis, «The Hundred - Foot Journey» is nearly a 4 - star experience, with excellent characters, genuine performances, and, with every great dish, a whole lot of love.

Colin Farrell is capable of delivering great work with the right material, and Terrence Howard is an excellent choice to play the silky - smooth villain, but more than anything else, this could be Oplev's coming out party as a director now that he's no longer stuck in the shadow of Stieg Larsson's popular novel.

Based on the 2008 novel by Matthew Quick, the film has all the ingredients of a Best Picture contender, beginning with its excellent cast.

Moreover, the sharp, literate script (adapted from the Walter Kirn novel by Reitman and Sheldon Turner) offers Clooney a wealth of good lines with plenty left over for the rest of the cast, in particular the excellent Farmiga.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

The young cast is excellent, with special call - outs for Lillis and Lieberher, and praise can't get any higher than to say their chemistry recalls not just Stranger Things, a show indebted to the novel IT, but the kids» banter and heartache in the daddy of all King adaptations, Stand By Me.

James Ponsoldt, the director of Smashed, The Spectacular Now and last year's stealthily excellent The End of the Tour returns in 2016 with The Circle, an adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel about a woman getting in over her head at her first job out of college.

Skillfully directed by veteran Phillip Noyce (Catch a Fire, The Quiet American), with a solid cast, great score, excellent cinematography, use of color, and an intriguing premise, the film, based on the novel by Lois Lowry, has all of the tools and the talent on board to succeed.

It's also the only film in Tarantino's catalog adapted from a previous work (Elmore Leonard's crime novel, «Rum Punch»), and it's ripe with tension - filled confrontations and excellent performances from Pam Grier, Robert Forester, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert De Niro.

This is an excellent novel to discuss how people cooperating with each other can increase everyone success; however, there are some sexually explicit parts that might make it objectionable in some communities.

This resource explores the third Part of this curious novel investigating literary devices, close textual reading, character studies, intertextuality, an excellent SMSC task inference, comprehension and a concluding activity involving creating a cartoon storyboard to support students engagement with the structure of this section of the novel., This powerpoint offers inks to International Mark Schemes (if required).

Therefore, I prefer entire books to be read in class, with every student silently reading along with an excellent audio recording of the novel.

Averill is an excellent editor and advisor, and I can't wait to work with her on my next novel!»

The novel opens with an excellent, extended descriptive passage, starting with an aerial view of the island and then moving in closer and closer.

Embarrassingly enough, I once sold a small stack of rather excellent novels to a guy who bought them with a counterfeit bill.

So, if you enjoy psychological thrillers with a good dollop of menace and paranoia, click below to browse an excerpt from this excellent second novel.

«A smashingly good, action - packed first novel... Benoit is a rare discovery, and one hopes that he plans to produce more adventure - oriented mysteries with the same skill and energy that propel this excellent debut» - Publishers Weekly

- The Times of London «Excellent... Grappling with manifold questions about identity and the tragic futility of material aspirations in a ruthless, brittle world, this novel draws you into a sun - struck realm where the survival of the fittest is more predicated by chance and where violence is a sudden, opportunistic enterprise.»

The fall is rich with fabulous books, and while attending the Southern Festival of Books this month, I had the pleasure of interviewing two authors following up critically acclaimed short story collections with excellent debut novels.

- Historical Novel Society «This astonishing third novel from Kadish introduces readers to the 17th - century Anglo - Jewish world with not only excellent scholarship but also fine storytelNovel Society «This astonishing third novel from Kadish introduces readers to the 17th - century Anglo - Jewish world with not only excellent scholarship but also fine storytelnovel from Kadish introduces readers to the 17th - century Anglo - Jewish world with not only excellent scholarship but also fine storytelling.

Another excellent Dunning novel filled with booky tidbits about signed copies and what makes a rare book valuable, about book fairs and book sales, and which also touches on autism.

In the Classroom: As we read and share memoirs with children, we should also talk about that «continuum» of life - story poetry and help students understand the distinct nature of each type, showing examples of poetry as memoir (Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming), fictionalized memoir (Carole Boston Weatherford's Becoming Billie Holiday), mock memoir (Gary Crew's Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry [sic] Book), and autobiographical novels in verse (Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back Again).

Kindle Content — Finding an Anthony Trollope novel at Gutenberg.org and making it pretty with http://www.sandroid.org/GutenMark/index.html — from David Emberson's excellent guide to the Kindle, The Kindle 2 Cookbook.

Replicating the feel of writing with a pencil or pen is still such a novel trick that we applaud the Sony Digital Paper DPT - RP1 for both its nifty stylus and excellent tactile sensation.

She seeks Christian romance fiction (fresh stories within the romance novel framework); commercial or general fiction that 1) has a place in the Christian Booksellers Association, and 2) has romantic elements; general market (secular) fiction that involves a clean story and disrespectful elements toward faith, and nonfiction from writers with an excellent platform.

My friend Anakana Schofield's debut novel Malarky is about to be published (by the excellent independent publisher Biblioasis) and I saw on Facebook that she was going to launch the book with a reading at the Vancouver Public Library so I wanted to make sure I'm there on March 21st.

They make a lot more with 3 or 4 $ 10 novels than they do with a really excellent full - length (long) novel for $ 20.

«Higgins creates a fascinating novel peopled with colorful characters and imbued with clever plot twists... the novel's climax is both excellent and surprising.»

One of our favorite aspects of designing this feature is the fact that research feels like a continuous adventure, providing excellent replay value with its varied and challenging system that offers novel goals to achieve.

Jurassic Park is an incredibly iconic franchise, beginning with the Michael Crichton novel which was adapted to the excellent film.

Confession: after reading Douglas Coupland's excellent novel Microserfs, I made a pilgrimage with some friends to Seattle (well, Redmond, more specifically) to visit the Microsoft campus.

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