![]() ![]() She’s been in comedy rooms for both network and cable television, most notably the Emmy award-winning Samantha Who?. Her comedic memoir Notes to Boys (and Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public) was praised by NPR as “brain-breakingly funny.” She has also penned issues of Rick and Morty. Her original comic book series SLAM! - co-created with Veronica Fish and set in the world of roller derby - receives rave reviews. Her first graphic novel, My Boyfriend is a Bear, (co-created with Cat Farris) is out now from Oni Press. She has been a member of the Disney Animation StoryTrust since 2013. She was named one of Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch and is a 2017 Film Independent Directing Lab Fellow. ![]() Pamela Ribon is a screenwriter (Moana, Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, Bears), TV writer, comic book writer, author, and best-selling novelist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Kennedy Astronautics Award of the American Astronautical Society, the Explorers Club 75th Anniversary Award, the Konstantin Tsiolokovsky Medal of the Soviet Cosmonautics Federation, and the Masursky Award of the American Astronomical Society: Sagan received the NASA Medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and for Distinguished Public Service twice, as well as the NASA Apollo Achievement Award.Īsteroid 2709 Sagan is named after him. ![]() ![]() He helped solve the mysteries of the high temperature of Venus (a massive greenhouse effect), the seasonal changes on Mars (windblown dust) and the reddish haze of Titan (complex organic molecules).įor his work, Dr. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA beginning in the 1950s, he briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets. Carl Sagan played a leading role in the American space program since its inception. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pursued by the otherworldly beasts, Teig’s companions confront even more uncanny and inexplicable phenomena along the Road of Bones, as if the ghosts of Stalin’s victims were haunting them. Only, when Teig and his team reach their destination, they find an abandoned town, save one catatonic nine-year-old girl-and a pack of predatory wolves, faster and smarter than any wild animals should be. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to death and left where their bodies fell, consumed by the frozen elements and plowed beneath the permafrost road.Fascinated by the history, documentary producer Felix “Teig” Teigland is in Russia to drive the highway, envisioning a new series capturing Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to the town of Akhust, “the coldest place on Earth”, collecting ghost stories and local legends along the way. ![]() Known as the Road of Bones, it is a massive graveyard for the former Soviet Union’s gulag prisoners. A narrow path where drivers face such challenging conditions as icy surfaces, limited visibility, and an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero, fatal car accidents are common.But motorists are not the only victims of the highway. Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia’s Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle. ![]() Some ghosts don’t live only in your head…. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Much like a slick, shape-shifting spook, Exposure is many things at once-an espionage thriller, a forbidden-love story, an immigrant's tale-and it assumes these varied identities with confidence. What she will learn is that no one is immune from betrayal or the devastating consequences of exposure. She believes that in doing so she is protecting her family. At the end of a suburban garden, in the pouring rain, Simon's wife, Lily, buries a briefcase containing the file deep in the earth. Two colleagues, Giles Holloway and Simon Callington, face a terrible dilemma over a missing top-secret file. The Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbor, colleague or lover. Her best book yet."-Mavis Cheek Virtuoso storyteller Helen Dunmore returns with a thrilling Cold War espionage tale in which the closest ties are called into question and nobody is quite who they seem. ![]() I was totally caught up in the story which is paced perfectly. It's gripping and page turning and all those things you expect in a Spy Drama-but always laced with her trademark humanity. "Dunmore so cleverly interweaves each of the character's stories that as the tale unfolds it has the chilling ring of absolute authenticity. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's almost an Elizabethan language, always referring back to the past. "There is a Negro idiom and I have to keep hearing its sounds. I need to hear the language," said Ellison. ![]() An interviewer once asked Ellison why he didn't do what other black artists of his generation had done: leave America and go to Europe. New York City's Harlem was his laboratory and home. ![]() In 1969, President Lyndon Johnson bestowed the Medal of Freedom on Ellison.Ī devoted fan of jazz and the blues, Ellison wrote as if he were composing music. CBS News Sunday Morning Correspondent Randall Pinkston reports.īorn in Oklahoma City in 1914, Ellison's career brought accolades and awards, including the National Book Award and the Prix de Rome. Now, five years after his death, comes a second novel, Juneteenth. That one novel became a literary classic, placing Ellison in the pantheon of great modern authors. While he lived, he completed only one, The Invisible Man, about a young black man's navigation of American society. Ralph Ellison once said he would rather write one good novel than five bad ones. ![]() ![]() ![]() Being an Essentialist is about a disciplined way of thinking. In Essentialism, Greg McKeown, CEO of a Leadership and Strategy agency in Silicon Valley who has run courses at Apple, Google and Facebook, shows you how to achieve what he calls the disciplined pursuit of less. ![]() If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is to become an Essentialist. Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilised?ĭo you ever feel busy but not productive? Have you ever found yourself struggling with information overload? The life-changing international bestseller that started a global movement - now updated with the new 21-Day Essentialism Challenge and an exclusive excerpt from EFFORTLESS ![]() ![]() She has always felt an attraction to Enzo (a Brazilian Business Man) who works out at her brother’s gym. ![]() With the love and support of her twin brother, she lives life without boundaries. Despite her difficult upbringing, she has transformed into a strong independent woman. She has an “easy breezy” mentality about life and love. JL is a spunky foul mouthed artist who works as a bartender. “She was the type of woman who ate street vendor foods, who didn’t plan things, who liked to dip her feet into the ocean just to think.” In Laid Out, the fourth book in the series, we were introduced to JL and Enzo. ![]() Although there are several characters that crossover throughout the series, each book can be read as a stand alone. A world where maybe the poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks got a happily ever after.”įighting Dirty is the fifth book in the Worth the Fight Series. “Sunshine and butterflies was all that floated above her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mandela spent his childhood in troubled, segregationist South Africa. Our overview of Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela explores his experiences during four time periods: his childhood, his time as a young political activist, the years he spent in prison, and the time after his release. He had to fight, every step of the way.Ĭontinue reading for an overview of this important book, along with a short exercise to reflect on what you’ve read. Mandela is known as one of history’s great peacemakers, but his own life wasn’t a peaceful one. ![]() Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela chronicles his extraordinary life story. ![]() What was Nelson Mandela’s childhood like? Why, exactly, did he go to prison? What legacy did he leave? ![]() ![]() It's 1915, and Emma is trapped at her mother's family estate in Belgium, right on the front lines of World War I. If you're like me, and feel compelled to buy & read ALL the books in the 'Once Upon a Time' series, I wish you luck. So, if you like fairy tales turned into no-magic, badly written, historical fiction, then this book is for you. But that's not what I wanted from this book. ![]() That being said, for what it was, it was semi-interesting. ![]() I don't know about you, but I prefer my fairy tale adaptations to at least have SOMETHING to do with the original story. There was no magic in it at all (aside from a few dream sequences, but dreams are dreams, come on). That's right: this book is pure historical fiction (and not very good historical fiction at that). ![]() I spent the whole book waiting for it to get interesting (i.e. The plot tries to fit in the original story of 'The Frog Prince' but I felt like it was pushing it. Let's face it, it's really hard to place a fairy tale in the last 100 years. ![]() When I opened this book the top of the page said '1915'. Like other fans of the 'Once Upon a Time' series, I buy these books because I want to read a fairy tale. The writing just isn't that good, and to be honest, I was just not impressed with the fairy tale retelling aspect of it. It's not my least favorite either, but it may be close. Water Song was definitely not my favorite 'Once Upon a Time' book. ![]() ![]() ![]() The underpinnings of Gray's approach to research and practice were formed in the first two decades of the twentieth century when his work and education brought him into contact with the reform movements transforming American education. ![]() He also developed a standardized reading test in 1915, which continues to be used into the twenty-first century, and he pioneered the diagnostic/remedial approach to reading difficulties. During his lifetime he authored more than 500 publications that examined the characteristics of all ages of readers, from young children to adults, as well as teaching procedures appropriate for the characteristics. ![]() Conducting and analyzing research studies to improve reading instruction was Gray's passion, and his work impacted virtually every aspect of the field. ![]() |