![]() One cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge is unkind to the people who work for him, then refuses to give to charity, and then is rude to his nephew when he invites him to spend Christmas with him. ![]() And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love-and rethink her own perception of what Happily Ever After should really look like.Ī Christmas Carol is a play about a mean-spirited and selfish old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates Christmas. He’s her in.īut as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she actually likes being around Wes. ![]() Meaning that if Liz wants Michael to finally notice her, and hopefully be her prom date, she needs Wes. See, Liz’s forever crush, Michael, has just moved back to town, and-horribly, annoyingly-he’s hitting it off with Wes. It’s Liz’s senior year, a time meant to be rife with milestones perfect for any big screen, and she needs Wes’s help. Wes was the kid who put a frog in her Barbie Dreamhouse, the monster who hid a lawn gnome’s severed head in her little homemade neighborhood book exchange.įlash forward ten years from the Great Gnome Decapitation. You would think that her next-door neighbor would be a prince candidate for her romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only proven himself to be a pain in the butt, ever since they were little. Liz Buxbaum has always known that Wes Bennett was not boyfriend material. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. Alice’s only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”Īlice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. ![]() But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother’s stories are set. Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. I hadn’t read anything fairytale related in a while when I picked this one up and it was everything I needed at the time. This is my spoiler free review of The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert. ![]() ![]() Patron's plotting is as tight as her characters are endearing. Her best friend, Lincoln, is a taciturn boy with a fixation for tying knots another acquaintance, Miles, seems a tiresome pest until Lucky discovers a secret about his mother. Looking for solace, Lucky eavesdrops on the various 12-step meetings held in Hard Pan (of which there are plenty), hoping to suss out a "higher power" that will see her through her difficulties. ![]() With a personality that may remind some readers of Ramona Quimby, Lucky, who is totally contemporary, teeters between bravado-gathering insect specimens, scaring away snakes from the laundry-and fear that her guardian will leave her to return to France. Lucky, age 10, lives in tiny Hard Pan, California (population 43), with her dog and the young French woman who is her guardian. Grade Level: 4th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) ![]() Volunteers needed in July! 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Yet as the drive-by suggests, much can change in 20 years. ![]() Once the king and queen of morning television, Matt and Katie were regular “guests” in the homes of millions of Americans, delivering the news with friendly banter. Couric writes in her new memoir, “Going There,” that she realized then that the television partners would never speak again. NEW YORK - On a summer day in the Hamptons last year, Katie Couric and her husband, John Molner, went out for a walk and saw a familiar white Jeep drive by with Matt Lauer at the wheel. ![]() ![]() Tobias Menzies Joins Brad Pitt in Formula One Apple Movie ![]() For the self-tape audition for the film, she remembers pulling her hair back in a tight bun and putting “a full bottle” of sunscreen on her face in order to gain the shiny appearance of the robot, Ava, she would eventually play. ![]() A lot of it you had to understand by reading the action and understanding what is happening in the scene emotionally,” she said of the Garland- written screenplay. “Everything that needs to be there, is there and nothing else. She then turned heads in the 2012 Danish film A Royal Affair, co-starring with Mads Mikkelsen, but it was her role in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina that gained her notoriety in the U.S. Vikander’s big break in her native Sweden came with 2010’s Pure. During a wide-ranging conversation for THR‘s Awards Chatter podcast at the Campari Lounge at the Cannes Film Festival, Oscar winner Alicia Vikander went through her career from her upbringing in Sweden and background in ballet to her Oscar-winning role in The Danish Girl and her latest film Firebrand, which will screen in competition at the festival. ![]() ![]() ![]() And while I won’t go on a rant about how much Bill Maher needs to just go sit down somewhere and not worry about his lawn being tread on by us geeks, I would like to give him, and many other doubters, a copy of Grant Morrison’s Supergods. And while most people at least accept the existence of a multi-media world of capes and quips, some people don’t like it, screaming at the sky that comics and superheroes are the end of culture. Will: You, me, myself, I, and all of our parents know we live in a superhero world now. This week’s entries come from: Will Johnson, Ali Sciarabba, John Bernardy, Bryan O’Donnell, and Caemeron Crain. They won’t always be new to the world, but they’ll be new to us, or we hope new to you. Each week a rotating cast of writers will offer their recommendations based on things they have discovered. But have no fear! We’re here to help you do that thing I just described with three different metaphors. ![]() In our internet age, there is so much out there to think about watching, reading, listening to, etc., that it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, filter out the noise, or find those diamonds in the rough. ![]() Welcome to What’s the Buzz, 25YL’s feature where members of our staff provide you with recommendations on a weekly basis. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We also quantified IL-6 from 7 human clinical blood samples using the CDPro with only 0.5 μL plasma, which showed excellent agreement with an existing clinical protein diagnostic system with 25 μL plasma from those samples ( R 2 = 0.98). We characterized the performance of CDPro using recombinant interleukins (IL-3 and IL-6) as example targets and reported a LoD of 0.0128 pg mL −1. The bead-free digital immuno-PCR assay not only eliminates the need for multistep washing, but also possesses ultra-high detection sensitivity and accuracy. ![]() Miniaturized centrifugal devices enable emulsification of hundreds of samples within 3 minutes using a common centrifuge. The CDPro combines two techniques, namely a centrifugal microdroplet generation device and a digital immuno-PCR assay. The Red Tigress, Ana Mikhailov, has returned to Cyrilia, but the country she once called home has fallen under a dark rule. ![]() Herein, we developed a parallelized, wash-free, and ultrasensitive centrifugal droplet digital protein detection (CDPro) technology that achieves a femtomolar limit of detection (LoD) of target proteins with sub-microliters of plasma. A princess with a dark secret must ally with a con man to liberate her empire from a reign of terror in this epic fantasy retelling of the Anastasia story. Currently, high-sensitivity approaches require specialized instrumentation, involve multiple washing steps, and lack the ability to parallelize, preventing their widespread implementation. The ability to efficiently detect low-abundance protein biomarkers in tiny blood samples is a significant challenge in clinical and laboratory settings. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story tells a gentle lesson about honesty. ![]() What a charming book! It features an engaging story, has some fine artwork and is printed with extra touches that respect its reader. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds. “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language. ![]() The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year ![]() |