Honestly, it’s hard to know what this book is about. At least at first glance. Unlike The Queen’s Gambit and The Last Checkmate, chess isn’t the main focus of the book, but one of the main characters, Ivan Koubek, is a competitive chess player. The book is really about Ivan and his older brother, Peter, dealing with the loss of their father. And how everyone copes, grieves, differently.
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Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) is a young woman down on her luck, looking for a fresh start. Nina Winchester (Amanda Seyfried) needs a housekeeper. Is it meant to be?
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Ronald Griffin, Jr. (known only as “Griff” throughout the movie) is an actor trying to make it in Los Angeles. Recently fired from a job, he goes home to Buffalo, New York for his friend Doug’s birthday party with an idea to remake the 1997 movie Anaconda. Once he succeeds in convincing his friends from high school (including Doug) to remake the movie, hilarity ensues.
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Jake Sully and his family are on the run again, and not just from the military. While transporting Spider to be with his own kind — humans — they’re ambushed by the Mangkwan clan, or Ash People, and those berserkers are just the tip of the chaotic iceberg.
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In Gabriella Saab’s debut novel, Maria Florkowska, a young woman working for the Polish resistance effort alongside her parents during World War II, has her world turned upside down when she’s sent to Auschwitz.
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