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The Last of the Wine

Charlotte Mendelson and Mary Renault

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Athens and Sparta, the mighty city states of ancient Greece, locked together in a quarter century of...

The Light and the Dark

Andrew Bromfield and Mikhail Shishkin

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Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and...

Out of Winter

Carol Lee

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OUT OF WINTER is a personal account of how a father's sudden illness affects a family fraught by...

Apache AH-64 Boeing (McDonnell Douglas) 1975-2005

Chris Bishop and Jim Laurier

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This book examines the design, development and deployment of the Boeing (McDonnell Douglas, formerly...

Evaluation in the Extreme: Research, Impact and Politics in Violently Divided Societies

Colleen Duggan and Kenneth Bush

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An exploration of the ways in which research, power and politics interact in violently divided...

Intellectual Property-Regulatory Complex: Overcoming Barriers to Innovation in Agricultural Genomics

Emily Marden, Rachael Manion and R. Nelson Godfrey

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Advances in agricultural genomics could help address pressing global issues, such as world hunger,...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Nobody (2021) in Movies

Jul 24, 2021

Nobody (2021)

2021 | Action, Comedy, Crime

7.8

(20 Ratings)

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Deadpan action-comedy from the John Wick people. The premise is more or less the same - supposedly retired hard man finds himself drawn into increasingly violent clashes with gangsters - but it's less stylised and more intentionally comedic. The main joke is the unlikelihood of someone so slight and nondescript as Bob Odenkirk taking out bad guys in droves; the actor plays it with a light touch.

Thoroughly satisfying action, some very good gags, and - most importantly - this is a film which understands the importance of taking a breath for a few character moments. You get a sense of real conflict in the protagonist, the sort of thing many films go on about without ever really bringing to life. Very nicely played, written and acted, a witty and satisfying thriller.

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Erika (17788 KP) rated Star Wars: Master & Apprentice in Books

Jul 14, 2019

Star Wars: Master & Apprentice

Claudia Gray | 2019 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

7.5

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Claudia Gray is by far, one of the best authors that Disney hired to write new canon Star Wars novels. I love Gray's characterization of Leia, and I've been waiting for a Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan novel for ages.
We see the beginning of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan's relationship, and the conflict within it. In this novel, it was revealed that Qui-Gon WAS offered a position of Jedi Master. Qui-Gon doesn't accept right away, because it would mean that he couldn't have a padawan. They both go on what is thought to be their last mission together.
Obviously, you know how it shakes out, because Obi-Wan is Qui-Gon's padawan in Phantom Menace, but it's still an interesting and deeper look into both characters.