La fin de la nuit françois mauriac5/13/2023 Scenic, costume and lighting design: Kristjan SuitsĬast: Maria Peterson (Therese Desqueyroux) and Maria Koff (Marie Desqueyroux), Karl Robert Saaremäe, Maria Koff, Linda Kolde, Sander Roosimägi. With her music, the composer Ann Reimann from the group Eeter aims to convey the deep spiritual insight, artistic intensity and musicality of François Mauriac`s style. In the middle of a web of psychologically loaded intrigue, there are two women, the mother and her daughter, spinning poisonous thread. However, telling the truth seldom makes one happy: it only causes further complications. The beautiful poisoner Thérèse is irresistible because by trying to be ruthlessly honest, she sets her mind free. Is it possible for anyone to grasp the truth? What is truth after all? Thérèse, in her relentless pursuit of the truth, can `kill with a kiss`, rip off the masks and render anyone helpless. Fin de la nuit is a sequel to Mauriac`s most broadly acclaimed novel Thérèse Desqueyroux, a story of a complex woman trapped by provincial life. The End of the Night, written and directed by Rainer Sarnet, is loosely based on the novel La Fin de la nuit (The End of the Night), written by the Nobel Prize‐ winning French author, François Mauriac.
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Exhalation goodreads5/13/2023 The collection begins with a strange time-travel tale set in the Middle east. What I also loved about this collection is the “story notes” at the end, which goes story by story to explain where he received the idea for it and why he chose to execute it that way. If you have never read him before, then be prepared to have your perspective warped by huge mind-splitting perceptions. I do have his previous collection, but have yet to read it cover to cover after reading the utterly soul crushing title story, “Story of Your Life”.ĮXHALATION is exactly what you expect from Chiang. Ever since EXHALATION was released, I was chomping at the bit to read it, since while I could go elsewhere to read these stories, having a condensed book of just him, is so much more appealing, plus the two last stories in the collection were completely new. He may even be my all time favorite short story writer. Ted Chiang is one of my all time favorite living writers of science fiction. Jodi picoult books salem falls5/13/2023 And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. A pro-life protester, disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.īut Wren is not alone. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.Īfter rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center-a women's reproductive health services clinic-its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Eden by Stanisław Lem5/13/2023 His works were widely translated abroad (although mostly in the Eastern Bloc countries). Lem became truly productive after 1956, when the de-Stalinization period led to the "Polish October", when Poland experienced an increase in freedom of speech. Translations of his works are difficult and multiple translated versions of his works exist. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. His works explore philosophical themes speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. Stanisław Lem (staˈɲiswaf lɛm) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer of Jewish descent. These high green hills jan karon5/13/2023 In the year that passes, the holidays (both religious and secular) are celebrated the community reaffirms its identity and the deaths of the town's oldest inhabitant and of a child are balanced by the birth of twins to Tim's young housekeeper. Thanks, though, to a splendid parish tea party-a tea for which Cynthia redecorates the rectory and provides delicious food-the ladies are mollified. Cynthia, a children's book author and illustrator, is not, however, a traditional clergyman's wife-a shocking bit of news for Tim's secretary Emma and the Episcopal Church Women. A longtime bachelor, he is touchingly surprised by the joy marriage to neighbor Cynthia has brought him. As the story opens, 60ish Episcopalian Rector Father Tim Kavanagh has just returned from his honeymoon. Like its popular predecessors (At Home in Mitford and A Light in the Window, not reviewed), the author's latest celebrates the lives of several Mitford citizens while offering vignettes of many more. The literary equivalent of comfort food in a tale of middle- aged love in Mitford, a fictional North Carolina small town: a novel that restores rather than provokes as it deftly portrays men and women caught up in the human condition. The night road kristin hannah5/13/2023 Even readers who like their melodrama thick will have problems as Hannah pushes credibility to the breaking point, and more than once. This familiar story takes an unfortunate turn deep into after-school-special territory when Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with extreme repercussions. But trouble begins in senior year with a slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi, who take great pains to make Mia comfortable with the change in the dynamics. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia’s best friend. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. The friendship flourishes, and Mia's mother, Jude, relieved and pleased for her daughter, draws Lexi into the family circle. For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children’s needs above her own, and it showsher twins, Mia and Zachare bright and happy teenagers. Despite financial problems, the two are glad to have found each other, and though Lexi resolves to stay safely on the periphery at her new high school, she soon meets Mia, unhappy and awkward despite a solid family life, a loving twin brother, Zach, and a closetful of clothes. After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Hannah follows up Winter Garden with a strained story of friendship, social pressures, love, and forgiveness. Surrender my love by johanna lindsey5/13/2023 In 2014 her title, Stormy Persuasion, made The New York Times Best Seller List Johanna Lindsey passed away on Octoat the age of 67. She has loyal fans reading "Glorious Angel" and "Gentle Rogue" and legions of devotees buying her Malory family series. Lindsey has something of a cult following, following such titles as "Heart of Thunder", "Hearts Aflame", "A Heart So Wild", and ''Keeper of the Heart". Take any setting past or present, introduce a rascally rakish male and a romantic heroine, let their hearts ignite with passion, lust, and love. Lindsey had found a romance formula that worked. To the young author's great surprise, it made The New York Times Bestsellers list. As a young wife and mother, Lindsey became a great fan of romance novels and wrote her first book, Captive Bride in 1977, on a whim when she was 25. Lindsey was born with the name Johanna Helen Howard on March 10, 1952. She has written over 30 books, of which 54 million copies are in print and have been translated into 12 languages. Johanna Lindsey was one of the world's most successful romance authors. Amanda hocking watersong series5/13/2023 Then, after all of that, Harper knew she had to go home and attempt to explain to her father what had happened, even though she didn’t understand it herself. The monsters were real, and Gemma was gone. But Harper and Daniel had been forced to tell him that it was all true. When Alex had come to, he’d been certain the things he remembered were a bizarre dream brought on by head trauma. It was almost impossible for Harper to wrap her mind around. Then it had shifted, changing form into a different kind of monster-the beautiful Penn. Its mouth was filled with razor-sharp teeth, and massive black wings stretched out behind it. Harper hadn’t seen what had happened, but it wasn’t hard for her to imagine.Ī horrible bird-creature stood over him. When they’d arrived at the cabin, Alex had been lying unconscious on the floor. Her head throbbed at the memory, and she squeezed her eyes shut.Īfter Gemma had swum away, leaving Harper alone on the dock at Bernie’s Island, Daniel had checked on Alex to make sure that he was all right. For one moment-one brief, glorious moment-she’d forgotten about the night before, the night when her little sister had been attacked before turning into some kind of mermaid and disappearing in the ocean. Harper woke up when the sun was just beginning to set, and squinted at the dim orange light streaming in through her curtains. The imaginary by af harrold5/13/2023 What do the children think Rossetti means by ‘the silent land’? Why would Rossetti say that it is better to ‘forget and smile’ than to ‘remember and be sad’? Share this poem with your children and encourage them to draw out some of its meaning. The book starts with ‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti – a poem about loss and memory. Emily Gravett’s powerful and disturbing illustrations offer the perfect companion to AF Harrold’s story. The Imaginary deals with complex themes around imagination, memory and loss, through a gripping and fast-paced story that will keep your children enthralled. Rudger knows that Amanda won’t imagine him forever, but he knows that he will live on in her memory when he has gone. But Rudger doesn’t belong to just any old child he wants to find his way back to Amanda.Īfter a series of adventures, Amanda and Rudger are finally reunited and, with the help of Amanda’s mum, they manage to destroy Mr Bunting. Luckily, a cat called Zinzan helps him find his way to The Agency – the library where imaginary characters can wait for a child to bring them into being. When Amanda is knocked down by a car, and whisked off to hospital unconscious, Rudger finds himself fading. Mr Bunting needs to feast on imaginaries to keep himself alive, and he plans to eat Rudger if he can possibly catch him… Things start to go wrong for them when the evil Mr Bunting and his imaginary accomplice find them. The Imaginary tells the story of Amanda and her imaginary friend Rudger. Μικρό χρονικό τρέλας by Auguste Corteau5/13/2023 Drawing on my own autoethnographic experiences with psychosis and psychiatric hospitalization, as well as 10 interviews with mental health service users, I argue that narrative approaches to inquiry and a post-anarchist praxis can reveal and liberate our agential capacities to recover and live through madness that otherwise become less known through biomedical approaches to mental health research. This dissertation seriously interrogates the ways in which those who experience serious mental illness become agential, resist some of the control mechanisms, relationships of power, and infantilizing rituals found within the Canadian mental health system, and survive abject circumstances. Old and present mental health systems tend to emphasize mental health service users as passive recipients of psychiatric care, which suppresses the idea that people who experience serious mental illness are able to comprehend their own sickness and recovery and therefore engage psychiatric experts about their care. |