![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Ironside as Richter, Cohaagen’s chief lieutenant.Sharon Stone as Lori Quaid, Quaid’s seemingly loving wife who is later also revealed to be an agent sent by Cohaagen to monitor Quaid.Rachel Ticotin as Melina, a beautiful brunette seen as the partner in Quaid’s Rekall memory program who turns out to be a resistance fighter seeking to overthrow Cohaagen.Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid/Carl Hauser, a construction worker who discovers that he is actually a secret agent, and travels to Mars to uncover his true identity and why his memory was erased.Doug will also have to unlock the details of his former life with the help of a mutant rebel leader named Kuato to defeat Cohaagen and save the colonies on mars. Doug receives a message from a man named Huaser, telling him to go to Mars and find a woman named Melina. ![]() But when Doug wanted to go to a place called "Rekall" a place where doctors provide artificial memories on vacations, his life becomes another that he knows nothing about, before he knows it, his wife turns on him and agents from an Martian organization led by the colony leader, Vilos Cohaagen are bent on his death. Douglas Quaid, a mild-mannered construction worker with a gorgeous wife and a nice apartment is very happy. Technology has flourished, and humans have successfully colonized on the planet Mars. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() At one of these festivals, Dickens met Mike Seeger (younger brother of folk legend Pete Seeger), and the two formed a band with her brothers. ![]() When she was 19, her family's dire poverty forced Dickens to move to Baltimore, where she worked in factories with her sister and two brothers.nnThe four displaced siblings often attended old-timey festivals and gatherings, watching others and performing themselves. She was influenced by country traditionalists such as Uncle Dave Macon, the Monroe Brothers, and the Carter Family. ![]() Born June 1, 1935, in Mercer County, West Virginia, Dickens learned about music from her father, an occasional banjo player and Baptist minister who drove trucks for a mining company to make a living. Protest and folksinger Hazel Dickens grew up the eighth of 11 children in a large, poor mining family in West Virginia, and she used elements of country and bluegrass to spread truth about two causes close to her heart: the plight of non-unionized mineworkers and feminism, born not of the '60s movement but traditional values. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Allies gained the upper hand by organizing their convoy system, breaking the Enigma code, developing coordinated and deadly air and ship attacks, closing unprotected areas in the Atlantic and building about 4,700 new ships, including 2,700 Liberty ships - more of them built in Baltimore than anywhere else. Paul Kemp's 288-page book, "U-Boats Destroyed" (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1997) reinforces the impression of lemmings diving over the cliff. Herbert Werner, a U-boat captain, called his 1969 book "Iron Coffins" and wrote that Allied air power made some missions suicidal. What Blair finds "most shocking of all, 215 U-boats (33 percent) were lost on first patrols, usually before the green crews had learned the ropes or inflicted any damage on Allied shipping." ![]() Blair attributes to the German historian Axel Niestle the conclusion that of 859 U-boats that set off on war patrols, 648 were lost - 75 percent. It was the German subs that were in perilous waters. Of 43,526 merchant ships in these convoys, 272 were sunk. From September 1942 to May 1945, Blair writes, "99.4 percent of Allied merchant ships sailing in North American convoys reached their destinations intact." During this time, the Allied sailed 953 convoys east and west on the North Atlantic and Middle Atlantic runs. ![]() ![]() ![]() The AT, as it's affectionately known to thousands of hikers, offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes-and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to test his own powers of ineptitude, and to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings.įor a start, there's the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa who accompanies the similarly unfit Bryson on the trail. Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine. So begins Bill Bryson's hilarious book A Walk in the Woods. ![]() ![]() "Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire, I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town." ![]() ![]() ![]() Includes a note to parents by psychologist and author Dawn Huebner, PhD.Īlso available in Spanish Qué Hacer Cuando te Preocupas Demasiado ISBN 978-1-4338-3866-8 Engaging, encouraging, and easy to follow, this book educates, motivates, and empowers children to work towards change. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering kids to overcoming their overgrown worries. ![]() Lively metaphors and humorous illustrations make the concepts and strategies easy to understand, while clear how-to steps and prompts to draw and write help children to master new skills related to reducing anxiety. If your worries have grown so big that they bother you almost every day, this book is for you. ![]() Gold NAPPA Winner (National Parenting Publications Awards) What to Do When You Worry Too Much guides children and parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of anxiety.ĭid you know that worries are like tomatoes? No, you can't eat them, but you can make them grow, simply by paying attention to them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gaea tells them, as she tells everyone who approaches her, that she might cure them if they become heroes. ![]() Wizard follows the adventures of two of these applicants, Robin the Nine-Fingered and Chris'fer Minor, who both come to Gaea to plead for cures to the extremely rare and untreatable diseases each suffers from. Applicants are constantly seeking an audience with Gaea to beg her for favors, or more accurately, miracles. (For ease of reference, I'm going to refer to the god herself as Gaea, and her world, which is also confusingly referred to as Gaea, as the Wheel.)Įarth has opened up diplomatic relations with Gaea, and tourism within the Wheel is booming. Cirocco Jones (the titular Wizard) and Gaby Plauget are both struggling with their own immortality as well as with the three million year old being called Gaea, who is pretty much insane and spends most of her time watching movies in the hub with her sycophants while continuing to do anything she wants with her giant wheel of a world that orbits Saturn. The story begins 75 years after the events in Titan. Although I'm not including spoilers, the fact that this is the second book of a trilogy means that if you haven't read the first book, I'm going to spoil some of it for you. This is a review of Wizard, the second book of John Varley's Gaean trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of these were successful some were not but are worthy to discuss if only because they were based on important works in his canon. But there were still a number of significant adaptations of Bradbury's work for both the small and big screen, including some that he was directly involved in as a screenwriter. Novels like Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Martian Chronicles, along with short stories such as "The Veldt," "The Jar," "There Will Come Soft Rains," "A Sound of Thunder," and "The Fog Horn," are all genre landmarks in their own right, the product of a vast, empathetic, and unyielding imagination that has influenced countless writers and readers swept up in the worlds he created.īradbury's poetic, metaphor-filled prose was not easy to adapt to the screen, which is perhaps why there have been far fewer screen versions of his work than that of, say, Stephen King. 22), and although the master left us on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, his titanic contributions to all three genres - and American literature in general - will remain with us for generations to come. The legendary sci-fi, horror, and fantasy author Ray Bradbury would have been 100 years old today (Aug. ![]() ![]() ![]() His house is the same, but the vibe is different. After school, he impulsively chases a limo but finds Tang Jingze and Isabelle inside. In class, Wang Ling reacts to a girl who seems familiar, but it’s someone else. ![]() He offers them ten yuan as safe money but he’s just as confused as they are as to why he’s offering it. This time Chen Chao and Guo Hua dive to the rescue. Time reverses back to the first day at School 60, when Wang Ling is beset by upperclassman bullies. Wang Ling faced with his hopeless inability to reset the world and save Sun Rong. So Froggy gives his support, once again merging. With a good deal of warning, Wang Ling decides that any penalty couldn’t be worse than losing Sun Rong. Hang on, reversing time is against the law of nature. ![]() Froggy explains how time manipulation works, but to get the desired result it would take a good deal of power. He quickly realises his mistake – not stopping Shadow Faction Leader sooner.Įven though Froggy’s time-freeze has given them a bit of time to think of a new solution, Wang Ling is frustrated at his lack of ability. But Wang Ling’s restarting the world can’t bring a person back to life. Episode 15 of The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Netflix) tosses us straight into Wang Ling’s first four restarts and then to the fifth, where we left off. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both Eva Luna and her exceptional mother, Consuelo, possess the ability to recreate the world around them, shaping it so that people never really die and unpleasant events may be restructured. ![]() In the character of Eva Luna, Allende adds another element to her usual mix of feminism and social commentary: She explores the nature of storytelling and, to some extent, the nature of reality. Fiction becomes both her reality and her livelihood. ![]() In this novel, Allende experiments with a protagonist whose abilities mimic her own: Eva Luna, like her creator, the Chilean author Allende, is a storyteller. Eva Luna, the protagonist of the novel Eva Luna, is not an exception to that rule. The majority of the characters drawn by the writer Isabel Allende (1942– ) possess some special talent or attribute. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rose encounters an offputting cast of roommates in Florida each housemate has his or her own quirks, and together they’re a remarkable collection of oddities. The primary story arc of The Doll’s House focuses on Rose, and it exceeds even the dreamy heights of Preludes & Nocturnes. The resulting story resounds with dreamlike horrors, wonders, and devastation. After a mysterious benefactor flies Rose and her mother Miranda out to England, they both discover their lives are tied to happenings they can barely understand. The Doll’s House follows Rose Walker, a 21-year-old woman caught in the web of muddled dreams left by Morpheus’ long imprisonment in volume one. To marvelous effect, The Doll’s House intertwines a litany of narratives, forming an addictive collection of graphic tales that you shouldn’t miss. Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series once again impresses and delights in volume two, grounding the ongoing story of Morpheus and his macabre cadre in the goings-on of our own world. Welcome back to the land of dreams, ruled by the aloof and mysterious Morpheus. ![]() |