![]() ![]() And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. It is a defense attorney’s dream, what they call a franchise case. Sometimes it’s even about justice.Ī Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it’s about negotiation and manipulation. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they’re all on Mickey Haller’s client list. Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Audiobook Length: 11 hours and 36 minutes ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In some cells, visitors will find letters on the theme of state-enforced separation from around the world by writers including Binyavanga Wainaina, Ai Weiwei, and Anne Carson. HM Prison Reading opens for the first time to the public as artists, writers, and performers respond to its most notorious inmate: Oscar Wilde. Wilde’s time in jail was devastating, the work produced in result enduring. Incarcerated in solitary confinement he wrote De Profundis, an extended letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas on release he produced his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.Īt this resonant site, the penal regime Wilde suffered is explored through archives, leading through to the installation of new works by artists such as Nan Goldin, Marlene Dumas, and Steve McQueen in the previously inaccessible – or inescapable – cells and corridors. People point to Reading Gaol, and say ‘There is where the artistic life leads a man.’ ![]() ![]() ![]() While many poems in Yeats’s corpus have contributed indelible lines to the storehouse of the cultural imagination (“no country for old men” “the foul rag and bone shop of the heart”), “The Second Coming” consists of almost nothing but such lines. At 164 words, it is short and memorable enough to be famous in toto but it has also been disassembled into its constituent parts by books, albums, movies, TV shows, comic books, computer games, political speeches and newspaper editorials. Written in 1919 and published in 1920, “The Second Coming” has become perhaps the most plundered poem in the English language. ![]() Yeats was justified in taking the long view. This will seem little to you with your strong practical sense for it takes fifty years for a poet’s weapons to influence the issue.” I have written of the same thing again & again since. “It was written some sixteen or seventeen years ago & foretold what is happening. ![]() Yeats responded instead with a reading recommendation: “If you have my poems by you, look up a poem called ‘The Second Coming’,” he wrote. The 70-year-old Yeats was a Nobel prize-winning poet of immense stature and influence, not to mention Mannin’s former lover, and she asked him to join a campaign to free a German pacifist incarcerated by the Nazis. I n April 1936, three years before his death, WB Yeats received a letter from the writer and activist Ethel Mannin. ![]() ![]() ![]() * "Telgemeier nudges readers toward the edge of their comfort zone, but she never leaves them alone there." - Publishers Weekly, starred review ![]() ![]() * "Superior visual storytelling." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review * "Telgemeier has her finger on the pulse of middle-grade readers, and this might be her best yet." - Booklist, starred review * "An entertaining and enlightening read." - School Library Journal, starred review * "Another dead-on look at the confusing world of middle school." - Publishers Weekly, starred review * "Pitch-perfect." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review * "Telgemeier is prodigiously talented at telling cheerful stories with realistic portrayals of middle-school characters." - Booklist, starred review * "Utterly relatable for anyone with siblings." - School Library Journal, starred review * "Poignant and laugh-out-loud funny." - Publishers Weekly, starred review * "A wonderfully charming tale of family and sisters that anyone can bond with." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review "It hits home partly because there is nothing else out there like it." - The New York Times Book Review "One of the most widely loved kids' graphic novels in recent history." - Booklist ![]() "Irresistible, funny, and touching." - Kirkus Reviews * "The story both normalizes therapy and shows a child developing useful coping mechanisms for anxiety in a way that will reassure, even inspire, readers." - Publishers Weekly, starred review ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Topdog tells the story of two brothers: Lincoln (Mr. He's also had the wisdom to bring along his good luck charm, Jeffrey Wright, about whom more later. He also directs here, spectacularly so, bringing to mind the energy of his efforts in Angels in America, Part 1: Millenium Approaches and the keen nuance of his contribution to Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk. Parks's ongoing exposure is due to George Wolfe, who has now produced four of her plays and has slated a fifth, Fucking A, for this coming winter. It's early in the current season, but one can easily imagine Topdog as a contender for this year's honor.Ī significant portion of the credit for Ms. Last year, her play In the Blood (our review linked below) was nominated for the Pulitzer. ![]() ![]() In the intervening years, Parks has dabbled in other things (Spike Lee directed her screenplay Girl 6, and she's written other works for film and television), but she has continued to focus on her playwriting and, with Topdog/Underdog, has taken a giant step toward fulfilling the promise with which she was labeled. It's the kind of early recognition that becomes the undoing of many: some fade into oblivion, others go on to more lucrative undertakings than toiling in the fields of the theater. It was about a dozen years ago that The New York Times dubbed Suzan-Lori Parks "the year's most promising new playwright". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A Bug's Life Toy Story 2 Ratatouille The Incredibles and Toy Story 3.
![]() ![]() Blomberg was also called on by Lee Strobel to defend the New Testament’s reliability in The Case for Christ. ![]() It also includes a chapter on the reliability of the New Testament by evangelical scholar Craig Blomberg, author of The Historical Reliability of the New Testament. Reasonable Faith includes concise statements of Craig’s arguments in both of these areas, as well as his views on faith, the meaning of life, miracles, history, and Jesus’ view of himself. Craig, in contrast, is considered an authority in two quite distinct areas: arguments for the existence of God and the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection. Many apologetic works deal with only one facet of the arguments for Christianity in fact, some apologists write many books without straying from their favorite topic. William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith is written as an apologetics textbook. 350 pp.Ĭhapter 1: Faith and Reason: How Do I Know Christianity is True?Ĭhapter 2: Man: The Absurdity of Life Without GodĬhapter 4: Creation: The Problem of MiraclesĬhapter 5: Creation: The Problem of Historical KnowledgeĬhapter 6: Sacred Scripture: The Historical Reliability of the New TestamentĬhapter 7: Christ: The Self-Understanding of JesusĬhapter 8: Christ: The Resurrection of Jesus ![]() Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics. ![]() Review of Reasonable Faith (2007) Chris Hallquist ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But if the right hemisphere is given the pen, the drawing will be exuberant, sympathetic and free. If the left hemisphere draws it, the drawing will be small, wizened and truncated – a literally reductionist effort. If a wholly unanaesthetized patient is asked to draw a flower, the result will be a fairly accurate, prosaic representation. While the effect lasts, the patient is a left or a right hemispherical person. Before neurosurgery it is common to shut down one hemisphere at a time by the injection of an anaesthetic agent into the blood supply to one side. Our brains are divided into two hemispheres, and the hemispheres are anatomically and functionally highly unsymmetrical. In neurology, just as everywhere else in biology, form is related to function. If we want to understand that world, we have to study our brains. The world that each of us occupies is, at least in part, a creature of our brain. Published by Yale University Press, 597 pp. ![]() ![]() Elderly and failing, Claire reveals her identity to Gabe, who must use his unique talent to save the village. Intent on finding Gabe, she single-mindedly scales the cliff, encounters the sinister Trademaster and exchanges her youth for his help in finding her child, now living in the same village as middle-aged Jonas and his wife Kira. After living for years with Alys, a childless healer, Claire’s memory returns. She later surfaces with amnesia in a remote village beneath a cliff. ![]() When Jonas flees with Gabe, Claire follows. From detailed descriptions of the sterile, emotionally repressed community, it’s clear Lowry has returned to the time and place of The Giver, and Claire is Jonas’ contemporary. ![]() In this long-awaited finale to the Giver Quartet, a young mother from a dystopian community searches for her son and sacrifices everything to find him living in a more humane society with characters from The Giver (1993), Gathering Blue (2000) and Messenger (2004).Ī designated Birthmother, 14-year-old Claire has no contact with her baby Gabe until she surreptitiously bonds with him in the community Nurturing Center. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now she works as a seamstress in Exeter, in the West Country her landlady is a volatile alcoholic. (In England, she tries to get her nipples excised.) Six years later, a Lebanese nun removed her to a convent from there, an English nun escorted her by sea to England. The baby was taken from her instantly Salma had no opportunity to suckle her. She gave birth on the prison floor to a girl she named Layla. Salma turned to her teacher, who had her put in prison so her tribe would not kill her. On learning of her pregnancy, he disowned her. In her early teens she and her boyfriend Hamdan became lovers. She lived a simple life with her Bedouin Muslim family, herding goats. Faqir’s purpose is to show just how tenuous Salma’s life in England is, and as details of her past trickle out, we understand why. Then and now, in Jordan and England, Salma and Sally wink at us like a hologram. ![]() The Jordanian-British Faqir narrates her third novel in short takes, alternating past and present. The woman’s name is Salma in her native land (probably Jordan). Pregnant, unmarried and sentenced to death by her family, a young Arab woman eventually escapes from the Middle East and starts over in England. ![]() |