![]() ![]() Let us see the final trilogy of the Saga as Star Wars’ creator intended it to be. ![]() after the release of the trilogys final film, the first in a new prequel trilogy. If he wishes to direct one, two, or all three of the films, he should have that opportunity.) But, we believe, at minimum, the design work, script, director, cast, and final cut of each film should require George Lucas’s approval. Star Wars is a science fiction/fantasy franchise made by George Lucas. We would like George Lucas to have the freedom to choose his level of involvement. ![]() We believe that Star Wars stories written by others, and substituted for the stories created by George Lucas, are not canon.Īs live action film versions seem a virtual impossibility, we would like you to produce a trilogy of CG animated films based on George Lucas’s stories for Episodes VII, VIII, and IX. We, the fans, see this decision as robbing us of our last opportunity to see authentic Star Wars. According to George Lucas, the decision to discard the stories he provided for the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy was made by Disney/Lucasfilm, because you wanted to “make something for the fans”. ![]()
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![]() This decision will save his life, but it will pull him into the very center of what we know today as the Killing Fields. Arn's never played a note in his life, but he volunteers. ![]() One day, the soldiers ask if any of the kids can play an instrument. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever.Īrn is separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp: working in the rice paddies under a blazing sun, he sees the other children dying before his eyes. When soldiers arrive in his hometown, Arn is just a normal little boy. ![]() It includes an author's note and acknowledgments from Arn Chorn-Pond himself. This National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who defied the odds to survive the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and the labor camps of the Khmer Rouge.īased on the true story of Cambodian advocate Arn Chorn-Pond, and authentically told from his point of view as a young boy, this is an achingly raw and powerful historical novel about a child of war who becomes a man of peace. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s unlikely that Adam is Catholic, since to be so at this time would preclude him from achieving the status he holds within his clan and with King William. While many Robertsons may have been Catholics, none would have practiced their faith as openly as Maggie does during this time in Scottish history. What detracts is that romance and history take a back seat to the religious aspects of the story, at times to the point of being preachy. The trials Maggie and Adam face provide an interesting tale of romance and loyalty intertwined with the realization that not all things they wish for turn out as they hope. Consuming Fire Written by Kathleen Morgan Review by Cindy Vallar Three years after the Massacre of Glencoe, Maggie Robertson enters a nunnery. Once he reunites her with her unloving father, conniving sister, and vengeful suitor, Adam promises to come if she needs him. The more Adam comes to know Maggie, the more he regrets his task. Adam Campbell must deliver Maggie to her father or forfeit his cousin’s life in payment for causing her brother’s death. ![]() ![]() While she wishes to serve God, she also flees the man who attempted to sully her reputation in order to force her into marriage. ![]() Three years after the Massacre of Glencoe, Maggie Robertson enters a nunnery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But then a capo from the Montalto syndicate offers marriage and if she accepts she promises protection.įor Elia the capo it is going to be a hard thing convincing his family to accept his choice as everyone he knows puts loyalty above everything. Just about everyone is collecting a debt and expecting her to pay.Īt the opening of the novel, she is being compelled to marry off a man she does not love to pay off a debt her father owes. The lead is Caroline, a woman who is angry as the men in her life including his father and his associates believe she owes them something. Miller is a story set in King’s Trace, a town under the grip of ruthless criminals. When she is not writing her novels she can be found sitting in silence watching sardonic humor programs, sitcoms, diet coke, filthy romance novels and listening to Lo-Fi Beats on Spotify. She now makes her home in Kentucky where she lives with Poe and Lord Byron, her two puppies. ![]() When she went to college she majored in English, minored in cultural anthropology and got a technical writing certification. Miller started writing from a very young age and decided her majors based on her interest. The author is a native of Baltimore but she moved to Kentucky as a seven year old and spent much of her childhood in the state. MIller is a bestselling contemporary and dark romance author from Kentucky that is best known for the “King’s Trace Antiheroes” series of novels. ![]() ![]() Plus, being anything close to an 'ethical person' requires daily thought and introspection and hard work we have to think about how we can be good not, you know, once a month, but literally all the time. ![]() This question has plagued people for thousands of years, but it's never been tougher to answer than it is now, thanks to challenges great and small that flood our day-to-day lives and threaten to overwhelm us with impossible decisions and complicated results with unintended consequences. ![]() 'Enormously enjoyable, useful and readable' - The Times 'An absolute breeze to read funny and enlightening and revealing' - Guardian * From the writer and executive producer of the award-winning Netflix series The Good Place that made moral philosophy fun: a foolproof guide to making the correct moral decision in every situation you ever encounter, anywhere on earth, forever * ![]() ![]() ![]() Second-guessing and a lack of common objectives then leads to an inability to develop standards for performance. These teams have difficulty making decisions and second guess themselves.Ĥ. ![]() ![]() Lack of Commitment.When teams become conflict-avoidant, a fear of failure develops. Meetings are often boring because controversial topics are avoided.ģ. In these companies, employees worry more about politics and personal risk management than solving problems. A lack of trust leads to the fear of conflict. Teams who lack trust conceal weaknesses and mistakes, hesitate to ask for help, jump to conclusions about the intentions of others, hold grudges and dread meetings.Ģ. Lencioni's work outlines the causes of team dysfunctionality and what can be done to overcome each one.ġ. In his book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni examines why effective teams are so rare and provides specific recommendations for eliminating barriers that lead to dysfunctional teams. ![]() ![]() What most people need instead is, well, range.Īccording to Epstein, the world for nearly everyone is not a place where specialization - which he argues leads to myopic thinking - is truly beneficial. Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World, a new book by David Epstein, a former investigative and science reporter at ProPublica, argues that this theory of specialization applies to a limited number of skills and fails to set its adherents up for success. It makes intuitive sense: If you want to get good at something, work hard at it until you are. That, Gladwell argued, was what successful people did. Throughout that book, he frequently cited the so-called "10,000-Hour Rule," which stated that to master something, one needed to practice it correctly for that amount of time. How?Ī little more than 10 years ago, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell was published. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Range Subtitle Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Author David Epstein ![]() ![]() Catwoman: When in Rome takes place within the events of Dark Victory, detailing Selina Kyle's mysterious trip to Italy, her dealings with the deadly Falcone crime family, and her attempt to uncover information about her long-lost parents. Set in the early days of Batman's career and taking place across an entire year, The Long Halloween examined both Harvey Dent's transformation into Two-Face and how the underworld of Gotham City came to be taken over by costumed criminals after decades of mob rule. For the third part of their trilogy, Loeb and Sale focused on Batman's most compelling sometimes-enemy, sometimes-ally in the six-part Catwoman: When in Rome. Then in 1999, they followed up that murder mystery epic with Batman: Dark Victory. The Batman: The Long Halloween duo of writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale return to Gotham for a high-stakes Catwoman adventure now back in print as a Deluxe Edition hardcover! In 1996, writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale teamed up for an instant Dark Knight classic with Batman: The Long Halloween. Catwoman Knows Bruce Wayne Is Batman Throughout the Long Halloween comics, Selina Kyle flirted with Bruce Wayne and encouraged him to leave Gotham City and run away to somewhere else with her. ![]() ![]() ![]() And that’s what I’ve come to love most about books! Ultimately, these stories were a great escape. I wanted that life, even if it included a pain-in-the-butt brother named Fudge. This series was like one great movie in my head, playing on repeat for months. Secretly, I rejoiced that Peter had no feelings for Sheila Tubman and may have wished for teen librarian, Isobel-AKA Peter’s crush in Fudge-A-Mania-to stumble through poison ivy and get off the pages of my book so my friend Peter and I could hang out some more. I wanted to live in New York City, play in Central Park, have a dog named Turtle. Who knew books could be so funny? So real? I felt Peter’s triumphs and cried when he lost Dribble. When she finished that book, and I learned it was the first in a series, I checked out every single one of them, locked myself in my bedroom for days, and cracked-up silly with every scene. Media Release – The Ballad of Jessie PearlĮxactly.For the Press – The Ballad of Jessie Pearl.For the Press Saving Granddaddy’s Stories.For the Press She Sang for the Mountains.For Teachers – The Ballad of Jessie Pearl. ![]()
![]() When the ever-changing tides of history threaten everything she has fought for, she must make a choice between her past and future-but the wrong move could cost Beatriz everything-not just the island she loves, but also the man who has stolen her heart." As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics and the perils of a forbidden affair with a powerful man driven by ambitions of his own. ![]() Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez-her family, her people, her country. ![]() Goodreads says, " In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life-and heart-to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. ![]() |