![]() ![]() I’m in on casting, so I have an idea of how the characters will look, and when I’m on set, I see them film their scenes. Question: What’s it like to see your stories on the big screen?Īnswer: It’s wonderful! Of course, I’m there. I see the script as it’s coming together, and I see the shooting script. ![]() 5, the process of transforming his books into films and what makes a timeless love story. Sparks stopped in Phoenix recently to talk about “The Choice,” which opens Friday, Feb. It’s the 11th of his books to be adapted into a film, a process that still fills the writer with wonder. This year, it’s the film adaptation of his 2007 novel “The Choice,” starring Benjamin Walker and Teresa Palmer as a star-crossed couple. Sparks, 50, is a consummate businessman and always has an iron in the fire. “I’m always very humbled by that, I’m very flattered by that, often I’m in shock by that.”īut it wasn’t just luck that transformed the prolific writer of heart-tugging romances into a brand unto himself. ![]() “I’m glad that there are people who enjoy my work,” he says. Nicholas Sparks is the first to admit that his career is blessed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Stanford business professor Deborah Gruenfeld combines 25 years of social psychology research with personal experience to reveal the truth about power: that we all have more than we realise and what counts is what we do with it.Īcting with Power shows anyone seeking greater professional and academic success what power is actually for, how to identify it within ourselves, and how to use it constructively using acting techniques. ![]() What if instead of worrying about getting more power, we focus on using the power we do have better? "A refreshing and enlightening new perspective on what it means to be powerful." - SUSAN CAIN, bestselling author of QuietĪn eye-opening exploration of power and how we can harness it using performance techniques borrowed from actors. A bold and eye-opening exploration of the true nature of power and how to use it ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of her career, Maggie Shayne has won a vast number of awards for her work. She is an American author, having written well over 50 romance novels and paranormal novels combined. 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I did love that this was set in Washington state and also loved that it was set in a bookstore and that the bookstore played such a huge role in the tale. Overall though it wasn't a bad way to experience this book. I listened to this as an audiobook, and while I mostly liked Sunil Malhotra's narration, I didn't like how he made Chad sound like Jeff Spicoli, Ira sounded like a cartoon character, and the voice of Aaron's mother sounded like a flower child. I loved the humor that the secondary characters contributed to the story, which helped to balance out the more frustrating and melancholy parts. Lewis "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear" summarizes the elements of this book that really touched me. ![]() ![]() However, once I got to the ending, I got tears in my eyes because I could identify with his feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. Truly, through most of the book I found Aaron irritating, pompous, full of himself, and full of overreactions to every single thing. Once I got almost all the way through this book, I stopped being so annoyed with Aaron and really appreciated the overall themes of this book, which is a reflection on the ways grief can manifest and an exploration of the effects of addiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Usually all orders are processed and shipped within 1-5 working days.ĮLP will provide its online customers with the possibility to return or exchange faulty books (subject to verification by our staff). 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Snyder centers on the notion that the world may be lurching from a “politics of inevitability” - the notion, as Snyder writes, that a better future is ahead, “the laws of progress are known, that there are no alternatives, and therefore nothing to be done” - and a “politics of eternity,” or the idea that time is “a circle that endlessly returns to the same threats from the past … (that posits) that government cannot aid society as a whole, but can only guard against threats.”įraming the book with six political virtues, Snyder offers alternatives in his chapter titles: Individualism or Totalitarianism Truth or Lies. “The Road to Unfreedom” offers a brief, potent and carefully documented history of Vladimir Putin’s consolidation of power in Russia, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chanute had transported a lot of treasure that way. Whatever was touched with that feather would immediately disappear and only reappear where the feather was put down. Jacob ran his fingers over the soft down that covered the quill. Just like Chanute had also taught him: whatever you find for your clients, always make sure you keep some for yourself. On the nightstand next to her bed lay a white feather. To find it, Jacob is going to have to beat out a Goyl treasure hunter who is also searching for the prized crossbow- and somehow convince Fox to do whatever it takes to save him." ![]() A crossbow that could kill thousands, or heal one, when shot through the heart. ![]() An item so legendary that not even MirrorWorlders believe it exists. And yet hope after hope is extinguished.Īfter months of fruitless searching, Jacob journeys to Mirrorland one last time to deliver the bad news to Fox. But there they hear of one last possibility. He’s tried everything to shake the fairy curse that traded his life for his brother’s - legends like the All-Healing Apple, the Well of Eternal Youth, the blood of a northern djinn. Nerron, the Bastard, becomes his shadow and a tenacious foe.Ĭan Love Save Jacob Reckless? Jacob Reckless has only a few months left to live. A magical crossbow is supposed to save his life, but Jacob is not the only one searching for it. ![]() This is going to be his very own treasure hunt. The moth on Jacob’s breast is getting darker. ![]() ![]() ![]() Named to numerous state reading lists, this novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly. ![]() In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined. However, she still wakes up the next morning. And it is…until she dies in a terrible accident that night. 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