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Peter Lorre described himself as merely a ‘face maker’. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional perspectives which position Lorre as a tragic figure within film history: the promising European artist reduced to a Hollywood gimmick, unable to escape the murderous image of his role in Fritz Lang’s M. This book shows that the life of Peter Lorre cannot be reduced to a series of simplistic oppositions. It reveals that, despite the limitations of his macabre star image, Lorre’s screen performances were highly ambitious, and the terms of his employment were rarely restrictive. Lorre’s career was a complex negotiation between transnational identity, Hollywood filmmaking practices, the ownership of star images and the mechanics of screen performance.

A perfect stocking filler for those who love reading. Mulled Words: A Winter Anthology is a collection of prize-winning poems and winter themed stories that journey through life in all its various forms; from birth to childhood, from adolescence to marriage, from divorce to old age and from death to rebirth. Each stage is celebrated; some are joyful, others are sad and many fill the range of emotions and experiences in between. Edited by Sarah Thomas, Nicole Williams and Kate Bond.

Although children have proliferated in Spain’s cinema since its inception, nowhere are they privileged and complicated in quite the same way as in the films of the 1970s and early 1980s, a period of radical political and cultural change for the nation as it emerged from almost four decades of repressive dictatorship under the rule of General Francisco Franco. In Inhabiting the In-Between: Childhood and Cinema in Spain’s Long Transition, Sarah Thomas analyses the cinematic child within this complex historical conjuncture of a nation looking back on decades of authoritarian rule and forward to an uncertain future. Examining films from several genres by four key directors of the Transition – Carlos Saura, Antonio Mercero, Víctor Erice, and Jaime de Armiñán – Thomas explores how the child is represented as both subject and object, and self and other, and consistently cast in a position between categories or binary poles. She demonstrates how the cinematic child that materializes in this period is a fundamentally shifting, oscillating, ambivalent figure that points toward the impossibility of fully comprehending the historical past and the figure of the other, while inviting an ethical engagement with each.

Soap Making Recipes and Practical Tips on Making Organic Natural Hand Made Soaps at Home From Scratch The precious art of soap making dates back to 2200 BC, where the Egyptians created a method of combining animal and vegetable oils with alkaline soap ingredients to create lathering like substances for cleansing. Over the years this art has developed into a worldwide business that offers a diverse range of soaps. From bar soaps that smell like candy to creamy velvet liquid soaps that make your skin baby soft. The great thing is, Soap making which enables the production of these diverse cleansing products is a fun craft art and hobby that you can easily pick up From creating personal gifts for special occasions and loved ones to allowing your creative juices flow for business purposes; knowing how to make your own soaps will give you control over what goes into them Take a little journey through this book to understand the process of creating natural/organic healthy soaps from scratch. It will teach you about the most basic ingredients needed for the soap making process and how they may affect your skin, walk you through the necessary instruments you will need to start making soaps and it includes simple recipes for a variety of exquisite homemade soaps. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn: Soap Making Processes Soap Making Equipment Soap Making Basic Ingredients Making Cold Processed Soaps Making Hot Processed Soaps Making Liquid Bath Soaps Purchase a paperback copy today

Author Sarah Thomas goes all in with this must-have quilting guide. This is not just a collection of 15 beautiful quilts to make, but also a course study on how to confidently choose fabric for multi-color and monotone designs. Sarah shares her approach to selecting a harmonious palate that achieves design strength through colour placement. She then goes on to explain how she uses color saturation and colour value to make the same quilt with alternate coloration. For example, her rainbow version of her Twinkle pattern takes on a patriotic feel when it's made with reds, creams, and blues. Filled with techniques that, in many cases, let the consumers choose their own preferences to achieve their own results, it also includes instruction for basic patchwork, curves, English and foundation paper piecing, plus appliqué options if paper piecing isn't your cup of tea. Quilt patterns include Blast Off, Double Dip, Eden, Fan Dancer, and Soft Serve. Improve your own quilting skills by learning from a master.

Relationships can be brutal, but what happens when the guy you married ends up being a monster? How fast can you get away from him and what causes you to stay? These are always questions people have when it comes to finding out that someone was in an abusive situation, and our protagonist first endures an awful marriage and an even worse post-divorce. She muses on the many ways one can escape and get away from a toxic partner, including all the ways in which to kill him. She struggles internally with the decision to kill the antagonist, wondering if it would be worth it and whether or not extinguishing his life would really set her and her children free. Will she do it? Will she actually kill him and get away with it? Read the book to find out

Peter Lorre described himself as merely a ‘face maker’. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional perspectives which position Lorre as a tragic figure within film history: the promising European artist reduced to a Hollywood gimmick, unable to escape the murderous image of his role in Fritz Lang’s M. This book shows that the life of Peter Lorre cannot be reduced to a series of simplistic oppositions. It reveals that, despite the limitations of his macabre star image, Lorre’s screen performances were highly ambitious, and the terms of his employment were rarely restrictive. Lorre’s career was a complex negotiation between transnational identity, Hollywood filmmaking practices, the ownership of star images and the mechanics of screen performance.

"This giant monster is the first man to show me there is such a thing as evil. My first introduction to violence.""The abuse, like poison, fed to us daily. Slowly killing us all."" Feral and pretty, a rose covered in thorns and he can't find a spot to place his fingers to pick me." Follow the journey of a young girl, Sarah, as she endures trials that no youth should live through. From understanding what it is to have a father, to sexual and mental abuse, Sarah's early life is filled with turmoil from the darkest regions of ones mind.

A suspenseful and Ripleyesque debut about a private tutor who discovers the dark world behind Russian wealth

The dark and brilliant literary thriller of the summer

'A superb debut novel... Anyone who enjoyed The White Lotus will love Thomas's scalpel-sharp skewering of the mores and idiocies of the idle rich' Observer' 'A classy thriller that will appeal to fans of Leila Slimani's Lullaby . . . A hot holiday read to brighten up the last few weeks of winter' Sunday Times Queen K is as compulsive as a Netflix binge, but it also asks timely questions about status and what constitutes a dignified life' Sheena Patel, Guardian 'Balzac in Balenciaga... Queen K lures you in with escapist, beach-read vibes, then bares its teeth with a devastating portrait of the emotional cost of greed' Times 'Patricia Highsmith-esque ... an untrustworthy narrator judging her employer's life of excess and desperate attempts to infiltrate a glittering world' Evening Standard, 'The Debuts You'll Love in 2023' 'A dark and brilliant read . . . our bet is that this is going to be on the small or big screen' Glamour On a balmy evening in late March, an oligarch's wife hosts a party on a superyacht moored in the Maldives. Tables cover the massive deck, adorned with orchids, champagne bottles, name cards of celebrities. Uniformed staff flank a red carpet on the landing dock. This is what Kata has wanted for a long time: acceptance into the glittering world of high society. But there are those who aim to come between Kata and her goal, and they are closer to home than she could have imagined. Witness to the corruption and violence underneath the shiny surfaces is Mel, a young English woman employed to tutor Kata's precocious daughter and navigate her through the class codes of English privilege. Now the closest Mel gets to such privilege is as hired help to the wealthy, and she is deeply resentful. Exquisitely written and deliciously unreliable, Queen K takes the reader to some of the most luxurious places in the world. But a dark refrain sounds from the very beginning of the story and grows towards its operatic finale: a novel about insatiable material desire can only ever be a tragedy. 'A world of butter-cream-beige luxury, brimming with toxicity and darkness, that pulls you in, and under' Calla Henkel, author of Other People's Clothes

'Fascinating' - Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'Truly a thing of wonder' - Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places'Lyrical [and] thoughtful' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of AbandonmentVisiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An immediate love for this country and for Bjarni, a man she meets there, turns a week-long stay into a transformative half-decade, one which radically alters Sarah's understanding of herself and of the living world.She embarks on a relationship not only with Bjarni, but with the light, the language, and the old wooden house they make their home. She finds a place where the light of the midwinter full moon reflected by snow can be brighter than daylight, where the earth can tremor at any time, and where the word for echo - bergmál - translates as 'the language of the mountain'. In the midst of crisis both personal and planetary, as her marriage falls apart, Sarah finds inspiration in the artistry of a raven's nest: a home which persists through breaking and reweaving - over and over.Written in beautifully vivid prose The Raven's Nest is a profoundly moving meditation on place, identity and how we might live in an era of environmental disruption.

Sarah Thomas's study moves beyond the image of the brooding, destructive man at odds with employers and his own star status to explore the complexity of Mason’s career and star persona. Her analysis is structured around three strands central to understanding stardom: the star persona, industry and power, and screen performance. Thomas addresses the incredible range of Mason’s star career – 1930s ‘quota quickies’; 1940s Gainsborough melodramas; the desperate IRA man in Carol Reed’s ‘Odd Man Out’ (1947); from the 1950s onwards, Hollywood classics including starring in Hitchcock’s ‘North by Northwest’ (1959) and playing Humbert Humbert in Kubrick’s ‘Lolita’ (1962). She also considers in depth his undervalued post-1962 career, off-screen celebrity status, non-film work, comic and vocal performances, and the star’s own self-commentary. In doing so, she offers a new perspective on such subjects as power and powerlessness; public image and national identity, contextualizing Mason's career in wider histories of British, American and European transnational filmmaking.

A timely and original look at the role of the eyewitness account in the representation of slavery in British and European art Gathering together over 160 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints, this book offers an unprecedented examination of the shifting iconography of slavery in British and European art between 1760 and 1840. In addition to considering how the work of artists such as Agostino Brunias, James Hakewill, and Augustus Earle responded to abolitionist politics, Sarah Thomas examines the importance of the eyewitness account in endowing visual representations of transatlantic slavery with veracity. “Being there,” indeed, became significant not only because of the empirical opportunities to document slave life it afforded but also because the imagery of the eyewitness was more credible than sketches and paintings created by the “armchair traveler” at home. Full of original insights that cast a new light on these highly charged images, this volume reconsiders how slavery was depicted within a historical context in which truth was a deeply contested subject.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Mister Mouse was working hard to provide for his very large family when his plans were foiled by a large and angry cat. He narrowly escapes with his life, but there's a problem; he can't go home empty-handed Lucky for him there's Granny, who is more than willing to not only share her bounty for the winter, but also provide them with a Thanksgiving they will never forget

A beautifully illustrated children's book, all about the story of the Gospel From the fall of man to the crucifixion, resurrection, and beyond, this compact book will leave each child with a clear picture and assurance of the love of God. The illustrations are vibrant, detailed, and sure to capture a child's imagination.

The essence of outstanding quotes offers a second voice that echoes your thoughts, beliefs, and declarations."Inspirational Quotes For Change" by author Dr. Sarah Thomas is a collection of quotes from some of the creative minds.This book will inspire, motivate, and resonate with you.