5/21/2023 0 Comments The Orphans by Mike EvansHis last TV role was in 2000, on an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger.Įvans was also a real estate investor and owned properties in California's Inland Empire.Īs the original Lionel, his absence was noticed at a Sherman Hemsley TV Land special that aired on April 26, 2006. He returned after Good Times ended in 1979. Actor and opera singer Damon Evans (no relation to Michael) played the role for a few years of The Jeffersons, as Mike Evans was occupied in the production of Good Times. He played Lionel on The Jeffersons for much of its 11-year run, with the majority of his appearances occurring from 1979 to 1983. He studied acting at Los Angeles City College.Įvans is most famous for creating the recurring role of Lionel Jefferson on All in the Family and was the first (and eventually final) actor to play Lionel on the spin-off The Jeffersons. His family later moved to Los Angeles, where he graduated from Los Angeles High School. He attended Palmer Memorial Institute, a private school for young African Americans in Sedalia, North Carolina. His father, Theodore Evans Sr., was a dentist, and his mother, Annie Sue Evans, was a school teacher. Ralph Carter's character Michael Evans was named after him.Įvans was born in Salisbury, North Carolina. Michael Jonas Evans (NovemDecember 14, 2006) (usually credited as Mike Evans), was an American actor and, with Eric Monte, was co-creator of the show Good Times.
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Man, if she can blend female ninja detectives, taekwondo, time capsules and the Black Hand Gang, that would be pretty awesome. It all sounds potentially delightful.Īlso, if it’s not too late to suggest other potential influences: maybe Spencer can sneak in a little bit of “ The Adventures of the Black Hand Gang”? Perhaps? In the same release, Spencer also cites Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown as major influences on her work. The news release describes the book’s protagonist as a 12-year-old “Brooklyn vigilante with a Tae Kwon Do black belt” who moves to Tennessee with her dad after her mother dies, then gets sucked into a mystery involving the town’s missing time capsule. Octavia Spencer is writing a children’s book about a ninja detective By Jen Chaney OctoHaving already won an Academy Award for baking the world’s grossest pie for Bryce Dallas. What is a ninja detective? Is it, like, a modern Nancy Drew wearing all black and potentially using nunchakus to solve the mystery of the hidden staircase? Actually, kind of. The first book, scheduled to come out next year, has an amazing title: “Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit.” Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that it plans to publish a two-part series for middle-schoolers, written by Spencer. 5/21/2023 0 Comments X Y Z by Anna Katharine GreenContents include: ¿The Mysterious Rendezvous¿, ¿The Black Dominö, ❺n Unexpected Calamity¿, ¿In the Library¿, and ¿The Yellow Dominö. A gripping tale of mystery and intrigue that will not disappoint fans of classic detective fiction. A Government agent is assigned a case involving counterfeiting, but ends up head first in an active criminal investigation, with many twists along the way and accidently stepping inside the shoes of the ones being investigated, this fun, action packed mystery will keep you guessing. Among the first writers of detective fiction in America, she is considered to be the ¿mother¿ of the genre for her legally-accurate and well-thought-out plots. ¿X Y Z: A Detective Story¿ is an 1883 detective novella by American novelist and poet Anna Katharine Green (1846❱935). Stevenson is several times mistaken for a peddler, the usual occupation of someone traveling in his fashion. It also tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags, large and heavy enough to require a donkey to carry. It is one of the earliest accounts to present hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. The other principal character is Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite master. The terrain, with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, he often compared to parts of Scotland. His journey was designed to provide material for publication while allowing him to distance himself from a love affair with an American woman of which his friends and families did not approve and who had returned to her husband in California.Travels recounts Stevenson's 12-day, 200 kilometres (120 mi) solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature.Background:Stevenson was in his late 20s and still dependent on his parents for support. 5/21/2023 0 Comments A great reckoning bookGlass Houses: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #13) (Paperback): The Nature of the Beast: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):īury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Ī Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Ī Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Ī Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): This is book number 12 in the Chief Inspector Gamache Novel series. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Rain man leonore fleischerAll he tells is that neither he nor Wallbrook gets better from it. Bruner to learn who exactly got the money. Walter Bruner form Wallbrook, a home for the developmentally disabled. He goes to the bank and with a plausible story, he gets the name: Dr. Charlie’s fathers house and all his money are going to someone who is very important for him, but this person cannot use the money so another person will look after the money.Ĭharlie doesn’t know him and Mooney won’t tell it.Ĭharlie wants to know the name of the trust. The will says that Charlie only gets a blue car and a garden. In the letter is written that Charlie was the perfect child and Charlie’s father only wanted the best for him. John Mooney read the will and a letter that Charlie’s father wrote. When Charlie was a young boy, he thought he had a secret friend: Rain man, but when he was older, Rain man was gone.Ĭharlie and his father’s lawyer, John Mooney, met in the dining-room. Charlie and his father did not have a good relationship. He was very rich and Charlie is sure he will get all the money. He goes with his secretary on holiday but then he is called: his father has died. The story is about a man, Charlie Babbit. Boekverslag : Leonore Fleischer - Rain Manĭe taal ervan is Engels en het aantal woorden bedraagt 461 woorden. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Kimi no na wa weathering with youHowever, it is common knowledge that power always comes with a hefty price. Things begin looking up for them at first. He suggests that Hina should become a "sunshine girl"-someone who will clear the sky for people when they need it the most. With Tokyo's unusual weather in mind, Hodaka sees the potential of this ability. Subsequently, Hodaka discovers that Hina has a strange yet astounding power: the ability to call out the sun whenever she prays for it. At the same time, the orphaned Hina Amano also strives to find work to sustain herself and her younger brother.īoth fates intertwine when Hodaka attempts to rescue Hina from shady men, deciding to run away together. Amidst this seemingly eternal downpour arrives the runaway high school student Hodaka Morishima, who struggles to financially support himself-ending up with a job at a small-time publisher. Tokyo is currently experiencing rain showers that seem to disrupt the usual pace of everyone living there to no end. Before the four can think about their own futures, they will have to defeat an evil that wants to destroy the future altogether. At the same time, the romance between Abigail and the shape-shifting police detective Charlie Cane deepens, and Jackaby's resistance to his feelings for 926 Augur Lane's ghostly lady, Jenny, begins to give way. Jackaby and Abigail are caught in the middle as they continue to solve the daily mysteries of New Fiddleham, New England - like who's created the rend between the worlds, how to close it, and why zombies are appearing around town. An evil king is turning ancient tensions into modern strife, using a blend of magic and technology to push Earth and the Otherworld into a mortal competition. Jackaby and his intrepid assistant, Abigail Rook. The fate of the world is in the hands of detective of the supernatural R. The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times best-selling series the Chicago Tribune called "Sherlock Holmes crossed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer" sends the eccentric detective and his indispensable assistant into the heart of a war between magical worlds. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Lawless by Janeen IppolitoLurien Alistil would also claim that she’s trying to protect family. He is determined to reclaim his family and his true place in the world. Considering that treasuring family is one of Shance’s core values, these revelations understandably shakes up his world. His son has been entrapped by Lurien Alistil to be used for her sordid purposes. His wife, death unicorn queen Maira Ukerys, has been imprisoned for ten years. One of my favorite parts of Faithless is that the protagonist and the antagonist share one goal: protect their family.Īt the start of the book, Shance Windkeeper learns that he has a wife and a son that, due to awful story complications, he doesn’t remember. One wild night, Shance Windkeeper discovers he’s married to a death unicorn. Interested? Have a seat, pour some hot chocolate, and I’ll turn the storyteller’s seat over to Janeen. Faithless is a steampunk adventure with airship battles, political intrigue, romance, dragons, and death unicorns. Hello, everyone! Janeen Ippolito, one of my favorite authors, is here today to talk about loyalty and family, two major themes in her new release, Faithless. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Steel tide natalie c parkerShe'll need to do everything in her power to convince the Blades that fighting is their only option, that there has to be a life better than the one under Aric Athair's reign, and that finding the women of the Mors Navis is the first step to revolution. She wants to continue fighting Aric's fleet and to take back the Bullet seas. She wants to find the Mors Navis and her beloved sisters. The Blades escaped Aric Athair's clutches and now live a nomadic existence, ready to disappear at a moment's notice should trouble come their way.īut Caledonia wants to do more than just hide. After nearly dying at the hand of a powerful foe, Caledonia is pulled from the sea and nursed back to health by a crew of former Bullets that call themselves Blades. The second book in a heart-stopping trilogy that follows the captain of an all-female ship intent on taking down a vicious warlord's powerful fleet.Ĭaledonia may have lost her crew, but she's not done fighting yet. |