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![]() ![]() MIKE, although an unauthorized biopic, is told mostly through playful, tongue-in-cheek narration from Tyson’s 2017 one-man show at the Majestic Theatre, an in-person adaptation of his memoir. MIKE is a story of one of the most gifted boxers of our time it is also the story of the Black women who endured his rage. (He was convicted of rape and sentenced to six years in prison the following year). MIKE tours that antagonistic disposition through Tyson’s relationships with Robin Givens, the Head of the Class actress to whom he was married for eight months, and Desiree Washington, the former Miss Black America contestant who accused him of raping her in 1991. ![]() The series depicts Tyson as a man who was taught to fight-and more frighteningly-taught to win those fights, no matter the opponent. “I don’t know how to fight to lose,” says Trevante Rhodes, playing Mike Tyson, in Hulu’s MIKE, a biographical eight-part mini series. For a boxer who has only lost six of 58 fights, the altercations Tyson experienced in his personal life are losses that tarnished his legacy. But his reputation, however credible, is not impenetrable. Few will deny that Mike Tyson is one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. ![]() ![]() A week before classes began, I took her on a tour of the campus and introduced her to her office, down the hall from mine. ![]() I met Montesanti in the summer of 2021 before she began teaching at the University of North Texas as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Literary Nonfiction. While the memoir spans approximately four hundred pages, Montesanti’s gift for prose keeps the pace spinning like skate wheels on a derby track. Louis and finding connections between her uncertainty in a new sport and the traumatic, unsettling memories of her youth: a psychologically abusive mother, a difficult family dynamic, and a driven, pressured relationship with athletics and her body. The book centers around Montesanti’s experience playing roller derby for a league in St. Gabe’s list consisted of the following topics: belonging, body image, roller derby, mothers, queerness, sports, and swimming.īrace for Impact, her debut memoir published by Dial Press, includes all of them. ![]() During Gabe Montesanti’s final MFA workshop at Washington University in 2018, the students provided other members of their cohort with lists of topics they were banned from using in their final assignment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including the Joe Pickett series. Teaming up with a female game warden (based on a real person, one of the few female game wardens at work in Wyoming today) to confront these assassins, Joe finds himself in the most violent and dangerous predicament he's ever faced.Ĭ. Their target seems to be the mystery man and everyone-including Joe, Nate, and others-who is associated with him. He begins to fear that a pack of four vicious killers working on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel known as the Wolf Pack has arrived. Meanwhile, bodies are piling up in and around Joe's district in shocking numbers. When Joe tries to lay down the rules for the drone operator, he's asked by the FBI and the DOJ to stand down, which only makes him more suspicious. The bad news is that he's come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife-and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe's own daughter, Lucy. The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf-only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down-in the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times -bestselling author C.J. Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series-now streaming on Paramount+ ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Now Ceridwen and Dain must struggle to escape the snares set by friend and foe alike, even as they discover a love that promises to bind them forever. Yet there are many who seek the maiden, all meaning to wrest her power for themselves. But he finally beholds true enchantment in the spell of passion innocently woven by the ethereal Ceridwen. ![]() ![]() She is Ceridwen, an orphan unaware of her immense power-until fate leads her from a secluded abbey into the tower of a feared sorcerer.ĭain Lavrans has no magic in himself, only the secrets of medicine he uncovered while a soldier in the Crusades. The Chalice and the Blade, pits twelfth-century Welshman Mychael ab Arawn and the forest nymph, Llynya, against the evil forces and dragons of the Northern caverns. In a land of forbidding castles, sacred prophecies, and unholy betrayals, mystery surrounds the one woman who holds the key to an ancient legacy. Buy Dream Stone by McReynolds, Glenna (ISBN: 9780553103939) from Amazons Book Store. In one of the most original and stunning debuts of the season, Glenna McReynolds brings historical romance readers the experience they've been waiting for: a novel of dark magic, stirring drama, and fierce passion that weaves a wondrous, unbreakable spell. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re benevolent, but still very clearly in charge. ‘Bloodchild’ is about a future where humanity has come under the control and protection of a space-faring species most akin to preying mantises and spiders. ![]() I should find the title story, ‘Bloodchild,’ cheesy, with its insect-like aliens and technological magic: It’s steeped in old-fashioned sci-fi cheese without ever getting drowned in the magic and wonder writers like Bradbury relied on. ![]() At just over 200 pages, it’s not many, and she herself admits to not being a writer or fan of short stories in her comments. This collection features every short story - and two essays - that Octavia Butler wrote between 19. Bloodchild and Other Stories was my introduction to Butler’s writing, and it reflects a masterful (and masterfully-thoughtful) writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() “She’s so good graphically, just extraordinary,” Falconer said. ![]() When Ann Bobco, who served as art director for the entire Olivia series, left Simon & Schuster and with Michael di Capua Books already at HarperCollins, Falconer had two powerful reasons to make a change. ![]() “I told him Olivia is the only book I’ve ever seen that was published by someone else that I wished I had published myself.” “I normally consider myself a very dignified individual but I rushed over to him like a teenage girl groupie and introduced myself,” di Capua recalled. “When the first Olivia came out, I was just blown away by it,” said di Capua, who met Falconer shortly after, at a party celebrating the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books in December 2000. The acquisition is a coup for di Capua, a longtime admirer of Falconer’s work. The book will be published by Harper’s Michael di Capua Books in April 2020. He’s also moving house: Suzanne Murphy, president and publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books, has acquired world rights to Two Dogs, written and illustrated by Falconer, via Conrad Rippy at Levine Plotkin & Menin. Ian Falconer, creator of the internationally bestselling book series about Olivia the pig, is swapping porcine characters for canines in his first picture book outside of the Olivia universe. ![]() |