![]() ![]() Disney later released a live-action remake titled 101 Dalmatians in 1996 and its sequel 102 Dalmatians in 2000. ![]() Aside from its box-office revenue, the employment of inexpensive animation techniques-such as using xerography during the process of inking and painting traditional animation cels-kept production costs down. The film was originally released in theaters on January 25, 1961, and was a box office success, pulling the studio out of the financial slump caused by Sleeping Beauty, a costlier production released two years prior, and became the eighth-highest-grossing film of the year in the North American box office. ![]() Their parents, Pongo and Perdita, set out to save their puppies from Cruella, in the process of rescuing 84 additional ones that were bought in pet shops, bringing the total of Dalmatians to 101. The film's plot follows a litter of Dalmatian puppies who are kidnapped by the villainous Cruella de Vil ("deVille"), who wants to make their fur into coats. The 17th Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wolfgang Reitherman and written by Bill Peet, and features the voices of Rod Taylor, Cate Bauer, Betty Lou Gerson, Ben Wright, Lisa Davis, and Martha Wentworth. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (also simply known as 101 Dalmatians) is a 1961 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She talks about the difficulty of having no friendsįrom a sheltered life in the Tatra mountains to her time as a barefoot and hungry little girl in Siberia and Tajikstan as central area to her families final arrival in the United States. She talks about the difficulty of the winter of 1939/1940 under Soviet Occupation. On September 1st when Luisia was only six, her parents roused her and her older sisters from bed. Luisia had lived her life in Sucha Poland. ![]() The Summer Of 1939 was the last summer of Luisia’s childhood, the Holocaust would take much of her extended family, thought and Aunt and a cousin would make it through, having escaped to Switzerland. I am reviewing a copy of Long Journey Home Through Usher Publishing and Netgalley: A Young Girl’s Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is Guinness World Records 2023! With ever more focus on diversity and inclusion, we showcase the most inspirational, eye-catching, mind-blowing achievements from the past year, across a multitude of topics such as gaming and the human body, engineering and wildlife. ![]() Keeping up with this dizzying revolution are the Guinness World Records adjudicators, who've been busier than ever documenting the Officially Amazing. As lockdown restrictions ease, humanity's horizons are expanding once again, and our world is experiencing unprecedented change - in the environment, culture, technology and society. The 2023 edition takes readers on a journey that's out of this world, revealing the latest and greatest record-breaking achievements here on Planet Earth and across the vast distances of space. ![]() We have lift off on another fully revised and updated Guinness World Records annual. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is an older woman, widowed, with only a few friends. Janina, it turns out, is a bit of a crank. But she can’t get anyone to pay attention, and her friend suggests that she stop talking about her theories. She writes letters to the police, giving her reasons and her astrological theories. Janina has a theory: the animals are taking revenge on people who have been cruel to them. Later, there’s another killing, and then another. They visit the scene together, and Janina believes that it is a murder. When she finally manages to rouse herself, a friend announces to her that one of their neighbors has just died. It is a gritty, modern, realistic murder mystery.Īs the novel opens, Janina (the protagonist) is awakened in the middle of the night by persistent banging on her door. Well, it does have an animal theme, but if you were expecting lyrical descriptions of the Polish countryside from this author, you can forget that right now. So when I heard that Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (which turns out to be an allusion to a William Blake poem) had a strong “animal” theme, I was naturally curious and had to check it out. She is also a vegetarian and recently received the Nobel Prize. The Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk has become something of a lightning rod in her home country because of her left-wing and anti-establishment views. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() * SECURE people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving.Īttached guides readers in determining what attachment style they and their mate (or potential mates) follow. * AVOIDANT people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness. * ANXIOUS people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner's ability to love them back. According to attachment theory, every person behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways: In Attached, Levine and Heller trace how these evolutionary influences continue to shape who we are in our relationships today. ![]() Also central to attachment theory is the discovery that our need to be in a close relationship with one or more individuals is embedded in our genes. Attachment theory forms the basis for many bestselling books on the parent/child relationship, but there has yet to be an accessible guide to what this fascinating science has to tell us about adult romantic relationships-until now.Īttachment theory owes its inception to British psychologist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby, who in the 1950s examined the tremendous impact that our early relationships with our parents or caregivers has on the people we become. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory-the most advanced relationship science in existence today-can help us find and sustain love. In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. ![]() ![]() Throughout her life, Kaikeyi often recalls a story her mother told of a woman who could not avoid the punishment of man, even when the fault of her actions fell upon a god himself-but the tale’s true message is lost on her until it’s too late. Still, Kaikeyi earns her place at her husband’s side, wins the love of her subjects, and raises a son, Rama. Then Kaikeyi is unwillingly married off to the Raja of Kosala, where her lack of friends and allies means the bonds of the Binding Plane operate differently. ![]() ![]() In between all her new work, she turns to the palace’s scrolls on magic and learns how to enter the Binding Plane, where she can exert a magical influence over others using the invisible strings that connect her to them. When her mother is banished, Kaikeyi is forced to take up her duties in the royal court. As the only girl of eight royal siblings, Kaikeyi grows up knowing her value as a person is determined by her eventual marriage. ![]() Patel’s mesmerizing debut shines a brilliant light on the vilified queen from the Ramayana. ![]() ![]() What they find in a lost corner of the universe will change all their lives-and unearth dangerous secrets. Now their entire kingdom is after them-and the coordinates-and not everyone wants them captured alive. When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. ![]() He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn’t care what he’ll sacrifice to keep them. But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. But D09-one of the last remaining illegal Metals-has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him.Īna’s desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. ![]() ![]() We ask all users help us create a welcoming environment by reporting posts/comments that do not follow the subreddit rules. Do not engage in hate speech, harassment, arguing in bad faith, sealioning, or general pot stirring. Rules Be KindĮvery interaction on the subreddit must be kind, respectful, and welcoming. This also applies to you posting on behalf of your friend/family member/neighbor. ![]() Personal benefit includes, but is not limited to: financial gain from sales or referral links, traffic to your own website/blog/channel, karma farming, critiques or feedback of your work from the community, etc. Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. Interact with the community in good faith. 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Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. ![]() Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() His characters are ones you'll want to come back to, his plots are convincingly contemporary and his humour is well-judged. ![]() (Crime Scene)Īaronovitch is writing proper police procedural novels, which are at the same time proper novels about the myths and legends of London. As for Grant, he's a wonderful blend of laconic copper and, methodically researching how magic works, full-on nerd. (The Bookbag)Īaronovitch deftly balances urban fantasy with the police procedural. There again, so have most of the previous books in the series and the odds are the next one probably will be too. The Hanging Tree is definitely one of the best in the Grant/Aaronovitch pantheon. ( DEN OF GEEK)Īaronovitch has outdone himself this time - it's the best book of the series thus far, and that's no mean feat. Once you start, you'll find a London that's just dying to be explored. ![]() This is a tight thriller that is compelling and buckets of fun. Ben Aaronovitch is a master of metropolitan magical mayhem and the action is delightful. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her laugh sounds like a donkey's bray rather than tinkling bells, she trips over her own feet more often than she gracefully curtsies, and she hates the young Prince Jorge whom her mother hopes she will marry. A lively and funny 'fairy tale' about the perils and pitfalls of kissing frogs! Princess Esmeralda isn't exactly an ideal princess. But if Emeralda ever thought to escape from her frustrating life, she never expected it to happen by turning into a frog! Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Her laugh sounds like a donkey's bray, she trips over her own feet more often than she gracefully curtsies, and she hates Prince Jorge whom her mother hopes she will marry. Princess Emeralda isn't exactly an ideal princess. But if Esmeralda ever thought to escape from her frustrating life, she never expected it to happen by turning into a frog! A deliciously original fairy tale that turns the tables on the traditional frog-prince story. ![]() ![]() ![]() |