Thinkific Labs Inc.: The Vancouver education technology company culled 76 jobs from its workforce in January with chief executive Greg Smith saying it was a necessary move to reach profitability. Shopify refused to say how many staff would be departing the company, but before it laid off about 1,000 workers last summer it had roughly 10,000 employees. Shopify Inc.: The Ottawa e-commerce software company laid off 20 per cent of staff in early May in a move meant to help it more intensely focus on its main operations. Days later, unions said the company had cut more than 75 jobs by outsourcing the printing and inserting of the Windsor Star. Postmedia Network Corp.: Sources told The Canadian Press in January that the newspaper publisher behind publications like the National Post, Vancouver Sun and Calgary Herald would lay off 11 per cent of its editorial staff.
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There, he falls in love with translator Walter Müller and also, separately, becomes sexually involved with Müller’s sister. Later, that same event is presented again with a different outcome, the repetition sandwiching the space in which Jennifer rejects Saul’s proposal of marriage and ends their relationship, and he travels to East Berlin on a research trip. But Saul is knocked down by a car and lightly injured. As the book opens, Saul is crossing Abbey Road in London in 1988, mimicking John Lennon on the cover of the Beatles’ eponymous album, for the sake of a photograph being taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. "I’ve mixed now and then all up,” says Saul Adler, the central figure in Levy’s ( The Cost of Living, 2018, etc.) tantalizing new novel, which interconnects place, subject, and time as intricately as lace-making. Multiple versions of history collide-literally-in a superbly crafted, enigmatic new story from an author of note. 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Rodney Ascher and Tim Kirk’s “ Room 237” (2012) offered a glimpse into some of the more outré fan theories: Did Kubrick fake the moon landings? (No.) Is the film surreptitiously about the genocide of Native Americans? (Actually… maybe a bit.) Legion are the admirers of “The Shining,” bewitched by its mysteries, all of which seem to encourage obsessive attention. She forms a definite idea for the little nursery. She supervises workers in a renovation, staying in a one-time nursery room while the work progresses. In a short time, she finds and buys Hillside, a large old house that feels just like home. Newlywed Gwenda Reed travels ahead of her husband to find a home for them on the south coast of England. Miss Marple aids a young couple who choose to uncover events in the wife's past life, and not let sleeping murder lie. The story is explicitly set in 1944 but the first draft of the novel was possibly written during the Blitz in 1940. Released posthumously, it was the last published Christie novel, although not the last Miss Marple novel in order of writing. The UK edition retailed for £3.50 and the US edition for $7.95. Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. We hope they will enrich your experience of this mesmerizing novel. Buy Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati from Australias Online Independent Bookstore, Boomerang Books. The questions and discussion topics that follow are intended to enhance your reading of Sara Donati’s Into the Wilderness. A saga of adventurous new beginnings, Into the Wilderness is a breathtaking journey through the heart and soul of one couple’s epic fate-and the destiny of a young nation. Soon Elizabeth realizes that Nathaniel is the only match for her. Three generations of Bonner women will face their most daunting challenges as they search for love and. The only man who seems to speak the truth to her is Nathaniel Bonner, a fiery outsider known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. In a magnificent new novel, award winner Sara Donati returns to turbulent early-nineteenth-century America and her bestselling Bonner family saga. Elizabeth has always treasured her independence, valuing her freedom and integrity above all else. He has a scheme to give Elizabeth substantial property-if she agrees to marry Richard Todd, a man to whom he owes substantial debts. Into the Wilderness takes us to late eighteenth-century America, where Elizabeth Middleton arrives from England to fulfill her dream of creating a schoolhouse, serving all the children of a remote New York mountain village, regardless of sex or skin color. Capturing the imagination of readers worldwide, the novels of Sara Donati bring to life compelling chapters in history, woven with tales of courage and passionate devotion. Orwell didn’t, exposing the lie with eyewitness testimony in journalism that preceded his classic book Homage to Catalonia-and that made him a heretic on the left. Left-wing journalists readily accepted the fabrication, useful as it was to the cause of communism. And in the Trump era, it’s a best seller. It is both a profound political essay and a shocking, heartbreaking work of art. You have to clear away what you think you know, all the terminology and iconography and cultural spin-offs, to grasp the original genius and lasting greatness of 1984. So when I recently read the novel again, I wasn’t prepared for its power. Since high school, I’d lived through another decade of the 20th century, including the calendar year of the title, and I assumed I already “knew” the book. In my 20s, I discovered Orwell’s essays and nonfiction books and reread them so many times that my copies started to disintegrate, but I didn’t go back to 1984. Neither the book nor its author stuck with me. I was too young and historically ignorant to understand where 1984 came from and exactly what it was warning against. Orwell’s novel was paired with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, whose hedonistic and pharmaceutical dystopia seemed more relevant to a California teenager in the 1970s than did the bleak sadism of Oceania. I first encountered 1984 in 10th-grade English class. It was also assigned reading for several generations of American high-school students. Casting their mystical knowledge as a scientifically honed craft, these mentalists persuaded millions to pay for dubious advice until governmental and public pressures forced them off the air. These "mentalists," born from vaudeville, circuses, sideshows, and the Spiritualist and New Thought movements of the mid-late 19th century, used the language of wireless technology to explain their ability to see the past, present, and future. Performers claiming psychic powers turned radio broadcasting into a fabulous money machine. Some thought it would dissolve the distance between time and place, others that human minds would become transparent, one tuned to another. When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age. Paul's only intention was to create a world where readers encounter novelties and wonders at every turn, then she has succeeded admirably. Lewis award-winning author of children's and adult fiction "Inventive, engaging, witty, insightful, touching, and profoundDragonspell is all this and more. I can only nod my head in agreement." Christopher A. Upon returning it, he exclaimed, 'It's good!' high praise from a rabid fan of Tolkein, Lewis, Jacques and company. This was proven in our household when our eleven-year-old son snatched up the book and devoured it. This is adventure and fantasy at its finesta must read for the imaginative soul." Linda Windsor, award-winning author of Along Came Jones and the Fires of Gleannmara trilogy "Dragonspell is a fine, well-written tale guaranteed to entertain both old and young alike. Maselli, children's author of Reality Shift and founder of "A reluctant heroine, her fainting dragon, and an assortment of colorful companions make for a delightful read in Donita K. And with a message of identity transformed from slavery to servanthood, it's a book families will love reading and discussing together." Christopher P. From riding on dragons to jumping off cliffs to moving mountains, this story is sure to spark a reader's imaginationyoung and old. Paul has created an amazing world of fantasy adventure. Scripture assures believers of their souls' destiny at death: Although this metaphor appears in Scripture, a thorough study shows that the metaphor of sleep refers only to the earthly body's inanimate state after death, not to the soul. "Soul sleep"-the belief that the soul rests after death in an unconscious state, or ceases to exist, until the final resurrection-finds its roots in the common "sleeping" metaphor for bodily death. Sadly, many fear their souls will have to wait indefinitely for heaven. When the believer dies, the body goes into the grave the soul and spirit go immediately to be with the Lord Jesus awaiting the body's resurrection, when they're joined together to be forever with the Lord in eternal bliss. Death raises many questions: When will it happen? What will it be like? What is the soul's destiny? Chuck Swindoll addresses that last question in Growing Deep in the Christian Life: In the end, he’s convinced by the thought of seeing a certain “special someone” (Andi Eigenmann), who was an integral part of his growing-up years. Insecure of how his life turned out, he decides to skip the celebration – but friends Ulo (Vandolph Quizon) and Portia (Meg Imperial) aren’t having it. The narrative traces the story of the 30-something teacher who is faced with the dilemma of wanting to attend an elementary school homecoming, but having little confidence to face his successful batchmates. The story of Roberto Ong (Jericho Rosales) is set way after the last school bell has rung. His first book ABNKKBSNPLAko?! (Aba, Nakakabasa Na Pala Ako?!) has now come to the big screen – a trip from the blissful days of elementary to the angst-filled times of high school, all the way to the defining moments in the grown-up world. MANILA, Philippines – “ Ang cool nito!” (This is cool!), exclaimed the elusive author Bob Ong in his message read in the February 6 press conference for his novel turned film ABNKKBSNPLAko?!Īlthough the bestselling author has been keeping his indentity a mystery, Bob Ong had earned a following for his social commentary, hidden under the guise of witty anecdotes about Pinoy life. |
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