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![]() ![]() In 2020, TRIN launched a digital platform to cover music by Asian artists from anywhere in the world: publishing in-depth stories, profiles, features, and essays as well as curate regular playlists, country spotlight, and radio mixes. These shows highlight the rich and diverse backgrounds, cultures, and styles of music artists from home and abroad, championing both emerging and established music-makers. It is home to the annual Summer Noise and All Of The Noise music festivals, which feature critically acclaimed homegrown and international music acts. ![]() Since 2015, TRIN has curated and produced more than 30 shows: ranging from pocket venues to outdoor festival settings. The Rest Is Noise PH (TRIN) is a music curator, events production, and online publication based in Manila, Philippines. ![]() ![]() She asks her students to do an exercise where they write down the same memory and then compare their versions. Karr describes how memoirs are dangerous because memories can be unreliable. ![]() This book is aimed at writers but some people who are not writers might find it interesting. ![]() She notes that fiction is becoming more intellectual and abstract, driving demand for nonfiction books like this one. She then discusses why there has been an increase in reading memoirs, as well as their popularity among readers. Karr begins by stating that she was not elected the boss of memoirs, and thus her claims should be taken with a grain of salt. She writes in a personal tone, often referring back to her own experiences and writing process when teaching various points. ![]() The Art of Memoir is a non-fiction book by Mary Karr that teaches readers how to write their own memoirs. 1-Page Summary of The Art of Memoir Overall Summary ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2020, King went on record as saying he wished Holly Gibney was a real person and originally stated that the character had stolen his heart. Holly Gibney appeared in a supporting role in the trilogy, helping Hodges in his attempts to stop Brady from carrying out more atrocities, which began with him running over a crowd of people in a Mercedes, hence the title of the first book. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch, which charted the story of retired detective Bill Hodges and his determination to bring the psychopathic Brady Hartsfield to justice. Mercedes ran for three seasons and was based on the trilogy of novels comprising Mr. ![]() I mean, she was supposed to be a walk-on character and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart and so… I just finished a novel that’s called Holly, and it’s all here, man.” Explaining his obsession with the character of Holly, King said, “I could never let Holly Gibney go, from the Mr. King appeared on The King cast and revealed that the novel of Holly is already finished, which would likely see the book released sometime early next year after his upcoming novel Fairy Tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the story may be safely set in the past, the development of human sources to sustain an oppressive domestic order is nothing if not eerily relevant to students of the present. These revelations add an entirely new dimension to modern China's troubled social and political history. ![]() However, as Michael Schoenhals reveals in this intriguing and sometimes sinister account, public security was a top priority for the founders of the People's Republic, and agents were recruited from all levels of society to provide intelligence and ferret out "counter-revolutionaries." On the basis of hitherto classified archival records, the book tells the story of a vast surveillance and control apparatus through a detailed examination of the cultivation and recruitment of agents, their training, and their operational activities across a twenty year period from 1949 to 1967. The Secret Listener A personal account of life in the orbit of Mao and Zhao En-Lai and one womans effort to tell what it was like to be at the center of. By contrast, very little historical information has been available on the covert operations of the security services in Mao Zedong's China. Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight, and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union and East Germany were directed by the Communist Party. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the lead up to their grandparents’ wedding, Crystal discovers there’s a soft heart under Scott’s muscled exterior. But after a series of escalating jabs, the last thing they expect is to run into each other at their grandparents’ engagement party. Sparks fly as these ultra-competitive foes battle for gym domination. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym – her place of power and positivity.Įnter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. ![]() ![]() Intrigued? 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Jill became a freelance author and illustrator and many more wonderful books followed. ‘Peace at Last’ by Jill Murphy is a fantastic engaging picture book for children. When Jill was twenty four, The Worst Witch was finally published, and was an instant best-seller. 10 tips for writing preschool lesson plans. ![]() Use them in a number of ways An important part of teaching is being prepared and this includes preschool lesson planning. Three big London publishers turned it down so Jill put it in a drawer and went off to work in a children’s home and as a nanny. Children will find these easy to colour pictures great to use alongside your teaching of the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. ![]() At only eighteen she finished her first novel, The Worst Witch, which was based heavily on her own experiences at the convent school. Jill went to a strict convent, and left at sixteen to attend both Chelsea and Croydon art schools. “My earliest memory (my mum tells me I was two), is sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by sheets of drawings.” By the age of six she was stapling her own little storybooks together. From a very early age she was drawing and writing stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() At school, Tomie's affection for her boyfriend ends up making him go mad, and he kills her and puts parts of her body in the trash to be thrown away. In the first episode, a man wearing a trench coat and eye patch follows a high school student named Tomie Kawakami. The series was given Another Face as its new title as a film on VHS and DVD. Originally titled 富江 恐怖の美少女 ( Tomie kyōfu no bishōjo, literally "Tomie: Fearsome Beauty"), The film was originally a TV series consisting of three V-cinema episodes, later spliced into a feature film. It is based on a manga of the same name by Junji Ito. Tomie: Another Face ( 富江 アナザフェイス, Tomie: anaza feisu) is a 1999 Japanese horror film directed by Toshirō Inomata. Yasuyuki Uemura, Shun Shimizu, Ito ChokuKatsu ![]() ![]() ![]() with only one thought in my mind: one more chapter!” -Ben H. but hes shadowed by a menacing woman who tells him to 'surrender the key.' Swenors widow gives Marcus the key in question. with only one thought in my mind: one more chapter!” -Ben H., age 11 “A unique, intriguing book filled with page-turning adventures.” -Madeline H., age 12 “I read enough in just one day to fill my school reading log for a week.” -Michael C., age 10 I can’t wait to hear what adventures they have next.” -A.J. “A mysterious, hard-to-put-down book with a twisting plot, funny characters, and haunting souls. Kids love Surrender the Key (The Library, Book 1): Because on these library shelves, the stories you don’t finish might just finish you. ![]() The Library may hold some answers, but the clock is running out. A strange guy in a bathrobe haunts them fires rage and flare out in an instant a peculiar old lady keeps telling them, “Surrender the key.” At first Marcus thinks he’s going nuts, until the mystery gets personal. And they need to use it, because, clearly, something is up. Marcus and his friends have found the key to open it. Puzzles that won't be solved until someone steps in to finish them. Buy a discounted Paperback of Surrender The Key (The Library Book 1) online. There's a place filled with tales that don't have an ending. Booktopia has Surrender The Key (The Library Book 1), Library by D. ![]() ![]() Check out a book-and unlock an adventure! A fast-paced, thrilling series opener from bestselling author D. Previously published as Curse of the Boggin. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the second book in a series of interconnected standalones following the three Lovelight owners.īy B.K. 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