![]() ![]() ![]() He garnered a Tony® Award nomination for Best Lead Actor in A Musical. Extending his repertoire, Groban made his Broadway debut in 2016 with a starring role in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Along the way, he packed arenas throughout North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. ![]() His catalog spans a series of chart-topping blockbuster albums, including Josh Groban (5x-platinum), Closer (6x-platinum), Noël (6x-platinum), Awake (2x-platinum), Illumination, All That Echoes (gold), Stages (gold), his first UK #1 album, Bridges, and his most recent release, Harmony. He has sold over 35 million albums worldwide, headlined legendary venues on multiple continents, and entertained audiences with acclaimed film and television appearances. Moreover, he continues to captivate fans everywhere as both a powerhouse vocalist and dynamic renaissance man. Tony®, EMMY®, and four-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer, songwriter, actor, and philanthropist Josh Groban possesses one of the most outstanding and instantly recognizable voices in music. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The result is a classic among classics, a treasure trove of extraordinary tales and a masterful work of literature in its own right. Ideal for the first time reader, it can be read as a single, continuous narrative, while full commentaries, with cross-references, interpretations, variants and explanations, as well as a comprehensive index of names, make it equally valuable as a work of scholarly reference for anyone seeking an authoritative and detailed account of the gods, heroes and extraordinary events that provide the bedrock of Western literature. With a novelist's skill and a poet's eye, Graves draws on the entire canon of ancient literature, bringing together all the elements of every myth into one epic and unforgettable story. Including many of the greatest stories ever told - the labours of Hercules, the voyage of the Argonauts, Theseus and the minotaur, Midas and his golden touch, the Trojan War and Odysseus's journey home - Robert Graves's superb and comprehensive retelling of the Greek myths for a modern audience has been regarded for over fifty years as the definitive version. Robert Graves's classic retelling of the Greek Myths is definitive, comprehensive and unparalleled - and available now in the Penguin Classics Deluxe series, featuring a new introduction from Rick Riordan (bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and Olympian series). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I read another review where someone was a bit fed up at being ‘patronised’ with the author explaining to the reader that they shouldn’t judge others, etc. I found the societal rules quite interesting. I found the process whereby Jade chooses a husband quite fun and interesting. Women have all the power in that society because if a husband should dare mistreat a wife, he’d be affecting the possibility of precious future offspring, and therefore the law was greatly on the woman’s side. Society has evolved to the point where men take classes in things such as cooking, massage, sex (yes!), and other husbandly duties, in order to maximise their chances of winning a wife. Women are scarce, and therefore men compete for the attention of women. The truly unique part of the book was Clecania’s society. Even after that year is over, she can never return to Earth because humans must discover space travel and the universe in their own good time. Rescue may not be all that it’s cracked up to be, because Jade is informed that she must marry a Clecanian male for at least three months, and that she must remain on Clecania for a year. With some quick thinking, she manages to escape the bad guy, but that leaves her all alone on an alien planet. ![]() It becomes obvious that she was ‘kidnapped to order’. She’s dropped off on Clecania, where someone is expecting her. This was definitely a step outside my comfort zone. ![]() ![]() The Good, the Bad and the Scooby!: Part 2 The Good, the Bad and the Scooby!: Part 1 Ghosts Are Not Healthy for Dogs and Other Living Things: Part 2Įnter the Dragons-Exit Scooby-Doo!: Part 1Įnter the Dragons-Exit Scooby-Doo!: Part 2 Ghosts Are Not Healthy for Dogs and Other Living Things: Part 1 Scooby-Doo and the Conjuror's Conundrum: Part 2 ![]() Scooby-Doo and the Conjuror's Conundrum: Part 1 Truth, Justice, and Scooby Snacks: Part 2 Truth, Justice, and Scooby Snacks: Part 1 Ghosts Are Not Healthy for Dogs and Other Living Things Issues 19-43 were monthly.Įven though the first issue makes references to this being a continuation of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, the direct-to-video film Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (which is a Batman from an entirely unrelated series), contradicts the entire canon of the comic. Issues 1-18 were bi-monthly, which was restored from issues 44–50. ![]() Issues 7 and 8 expanded into the Hanna-Barbera universe, with The Flintstones and The Jetsons, respectively. Teen Titans, Wonder Woman, and the Super Friends), either mentioning or having him as a part of an ensemble guest cast. From issues 4–6, characters from outside of Batman's world started to appear (i.e. ![]() It ran 50 issues.įrom issues 1–3, each story featured Batman and Robin, as well as some of his other allies, like Ace the Bat-Hound. ![]() Scooby-Doo! Team-Up is a comic-book series published by DC Comics, starting on Novemand concluding on September 25, 2019, featuring guests from the DC Comics Universe and Hanna-Barbera. ![]() ![]() ![]() The spell developed into a curse upon Maria's descendants, dooming any man an Owens woman loves. Heartbroken when the father of her unborn child never returned to her, Maria cast a spell to prevent herself from ever falling in love again. In a small Massachusetts town, the Owens family have been regarded with suspicion for over three centuries due to their ancestor Maria Owens, who survived an attempted execution for witchcraft. As adults, Sally and Gillian must use their magic to destroy an evil spirit before it kills them. Raised by their aunts after their parents' death from a family curse, the sisters were taught the uses of practical magic as they grew up. The film was directed by Griffin Dunne and stars Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Aidan Quinn, and Goran Višnjić.īullock and Kidman play sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, descended from a long line of witches. Practical Magic is a 1998 American fantasy romantic drama film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman. ![]() ![]() Steve and his younger sister, Nicole, have a new baby brother. His anxieties have always been a significant part of his life, but the summer in which the book is set, those worries come to a head. ![]() He worries about germs, washes his hands excessively, has to sleep cocooned in blankets and obsessively reads lists of all that he is grateful for in the evening to help him fall asleep. Oppel blends the line between fantasy and reality with long dream sequences about an angelic wasp queen visitor, the health of Steve's younger brother, and his family unit as a whole. Things change, however, when an ethereal spirit visits Steve, offering a solution that Steve can't refuse. ![]() ![]() Steve struggles to cope when his new baby sibling experiences congenital health problems that lead his parents to worry about whether or not he will survive. Kenneth Oppel’s The Nest is a fantasy novel for readers aged nine to twelve about a boy named Steve who struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. ![]() ![]() When Lord Pitt throws her in the dungeon and threatens to hang her for stealing, Aldric conceives a plot to save Olivia's life-betrothal to him.Ĭan Olivia give up the prestigious match her father has arranged with a wealthy marquess in order to marry a lowly knight like Aldric? And can Aldric move beyond his past mistakes to embrace love again? When loyalties are tested, they're thrust into danger that could cost them their love and their lives. He has his hands full attempting to keep Lady Olivia out of trouble. She lives in Michigan with her husband and five children. ![]() She won the 2011 Inspirational Reader's Choice Award, the 2011 Award of Excellence from the Colorado Romance Writers, and was a finalist for Best Debut Novel in the 2011 ACFW Carol Awards. She'll save her sister at any cost and do whatever her father asks-even if that means obeying his order to steal a sacred relic from her captor.Īs Lord Pitt's commander, Sir Aldric is in charge of the beautiful but feisty new prisoner. Jody Hedlund is the author of The Doctor's Lady and The Preacher's Bride. Loyalty to family means everything to Olivia. When Lady Olivia's castle is besieged, she and her sister are taken captive and held for ransom by her father's enemy, Lord Pitt. ![]() ![]() In gaining their freedom, will they lose what matters most? ![]() ![]() In youth he enjoyed an independent income that enabled him to devote himself to social work and politics. How on earth did he manage it? Like others before him, John Bew acknowledges that it was partly a matter of luck. He led the Labour Party for twenty years and presided, as prime minister from 1945 to 1951, over the most radical and effective of all Labour governments. Time and again, he was written off as a nonentity, but in the end he turned the tables on his critics. Journalists were baffled by the brevity of his answers to questions and it was said of him that he never used one syllable where none would do. His idea of a public relations coup was to invite a press photographer to picture him at home having tea with his family. His appearance was unimpressive, his speeches uninspiring, his lack of charisma cruelly highlighted during the war by the gaudy exhibitionism of Churchill. He was almost cripplingly shy and self-effacing. ![]() Clement Attlee lacked most of the qualities that make for success in politics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ".sets a new standard for the historical novel. PROCLAIMED A HERO OF ROME, CENTURION MARCUS ARRIUS IS OFFERED COMMAND OF THE PRAETORIAN GUARD IN ROME BUT INSTEAD CHOOSES DUTY ON HADRIAN’S WALL AS FAR FROM ROME AS HE CAN GET. We are the sacrificial goat staked out as Turbo’s bait.” “General, I believe it was not intended for you to know more than you were told. “ Possibly 20-25 thousand, perhaps more behind those hills.” Arrius now understood the intense expression on Turbo’s face when he said farewell three days ago. What do you estimate their strength to be?” We will need Jupiter’s help this day for certain. “ Commander Turbo told me to expect some resistance as we approached Beth Thera, but I did not expect the entire Jewish Army. “Did you know anything about this before we came here?” “ By the gods, I had no idea there would be this many.”Īrrius looked at General Gallius. ![]() ![]() Since his early years as a child Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly in terms of Western music and literature. ![]() His mother was a daughter of a merchant from Osaka. His father was a son of a Buddhist priest. ![]() ![]() Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 but spent most of his youth in Kobe. If Murakami is the voice of a generation, then it is the genera-tion of Thomas Pynchon and Don De- Lillo." - "Washington Post Book World" "There are novelists who dare to imagine the future, but none is as scrupulously, amusingly up-to-the-minute as. "The plot is addictive." - "Detroit Free Press" ![]() "Dance, Dance, Dance" (the sequel to "A wild sheep chase") is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. In this propulsive novel by one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.Īs he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. ![]() |