![]() ![]() In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible-even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. ![]() ![]() Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward.ĭrawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the "machine zone," in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. An anthropologist looks at the new "crack cocaine" of high-tech gambling ![]()
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![]() But her brother, Ian, isn’t about to let her forget.īut when Addie discovers an unusual guidebook, Ireland for the Heartbroken, their travel plans change. In the green hills of Ireland, Lina’s best friend Addie is just trying to make it through her aunt’s over-the-top destination wedding, hoping that she can stop thinking about the one thing she did that left her miserable and heartbroken–and threatens her future. It’s a world that inspires her, along with the ever so charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and uncover a secret that has been kept for far too long–a secret that will change everything Lina thought to be true. Suddenly, Lina is uncovering a world of magic and romance. ![]() ![]() All Lina wants to do is go back home…until she’s given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. But Lina isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine or fairy-tale landscape. Travel to beautiful Tuscany with Lina who, still grieving her mother’s death, is forced to spend time with a father she never knew. ![]() From Italy to Ireland, love can be found anywhere…. Set in the far-off and beautiful countrysides of Italy and Ireland, Jenna Evans Welch’s New York Times bestselling romances about life, love, and the true meaning behind the word family are now together in one charming package. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here's a link to a fan video that's fun the check out. Felicity Jones manages to convey Catherine's naiveté as well as her growing awareness of herself as a woman. Henry Tilney is perhaps Austen's most captivating hero (yes, really, based on his wonderful personality), and JJ Feild plays him extraordinarily well. ![]() But trust me when I say it's a really romantic moment. Here's a photo of Henry Tilney (JJ Feild) and Catherine Morland (Felicity Jones) together in the streets of a fictionalized Bath (they filmed the Bath scenes in Ireland for this production, oddly enough):Īnd then, later in the film, a shot of the two of them after a muddy horseride. on most PBS stations, you'll be able to catch Masterpiece Theatre's presentation of the recent ITV production of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first novel in Karen Kingsbury's celebrated series about the power of commitment and the amazing faithfulness of God. What happened to the love and commitment that held them together for so long? Is it still there somewhere under all the pain and misunderstanding? And is it still possible, alone in the moonlight on an old wooden pier, to once more find. But questions begin to haunt them as the date draws nearer. They can pretend a little longer-until after the wedding. How can they spoil her joy with their announcement? But at the family meeting where they plan to tell their children, Nicole shares a surprise of her own: she's getting married, and she wants to have a marriage as happy as her parents'. In fact, they're waiting for the right time to tell the kids they're going to divorce after 21 years of marriage. But John and Abby know they're just pretending to be happy. ![]() ![]() John and Abby Reynolds are the perfect couple-envied by their friends, cherished by their children, admired by their peers. But is that the real reason their marriage is about to crash? Now a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel event! Abby Reynolds, the wife of a high-school football coach in a small Illinois town, suspects her husband, John, of having an affair. Karen Kingsbury's A Time to Dance Mike Rohl (Director), Jennie Garth (Actor), Dan Payne (Actor) Rated: NR Format: DVD 331 ratings Amazon's Choice for 'a time to dance' 999 Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns Prime Video 3.99 7.99 DVD 9.99 DVD DecemDVD 1 9.99 9.99 10.61 DVD Septem1 22.25 17. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The cinematographic styles and colour grading were planned ahead to give the series atmospheric elegance, amplified by the use of traditional animation adapted from the source material. Various pre-existing songs were used as the series' soundtrack, in addition to an original score by Adiescar Chase. Filming took place from April to June that year, with teasers released throughout the timeframe. The television rights for the series were purchased by See-Saw Films in 2019, and Netflix acquired distribution rights in 2021. It also explores the lives of their friends Tao ( William Gao), Elle ( Yasmin Finney), Tara (Corinna Brown) and Darcy (Kizzy Edgell). ![]() Written by Oseman herself, the series primarily tells the story of Charlie Spring ( Joe Locke), a gay schoolboy who falls in love with classmate Nick Nelson ( Kit Connor), whom he sits next to in his new form. Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age romantic comedy- drama television series on Netflix, adapted from the webcomic and graphic novel of the same name by Alice Oseman. ![]() ![]() ![]() In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. ![]() Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades.Ī gruesome discovery in Stephen’s Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. When a strange key is found in Stephen’s possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. All the Devils Are Here, the 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light ![]() ![]() ![]() This year, mousy Emma, a later addition to the group of friends, has arranged a stay at a remote hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands. Getting together every New Year’s is a tradition for a group of Londoners who became close during their Oxford days. When you drop the beleaguered cast in the middle of an unforgiving landscape, it’s even better, and that’s what Lucy Foley does with the poor folks in The Hunting Party. Kill one, and you’re off to the races! It’s an enduring format, and when it’s done right, it’s quite effective. If you’ve got a set group of people in an isolated setting, you’re good to go. With an impending blizzard on the way, the nostalgia ends abruptly when one of them is murdered.Īnyone that’s read Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None is familiar with the locked room mystery. In Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party, a group of old Oxford friends celebrates their annual reunion at a lodge in the remote Scottish Highlands. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The judge throws the book at Sunny-literally-assigning her to do community service at the library for the summer. ![]() She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget her problems.īut that changes when fifteen-year-old, home-schooled Sunny gets arrested for shoplifting a dictionary. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Most come for the books themselves, of course some come to borrow companionship. People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Halpern’s novel is an unforgettable tale of family.the kind you come from and the kind you create. From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. ![]() ![]() The Opposite of Art will live within me for a very long time." - Tamera Alexander, bestselling author of Within My Heart and The Inheritance "Athol Dickson has created an elegant and gritty masterpiece, nuanced by allegory and delivered in resplendent prose. His imagination is exquisite and his word choices artistic. Unforgettable." - DeAnna Julie Dodson, author of In Honor Bound "Athol Dickson truly is one of the most gifted storytellers of our day. Once again, Dickson triumphs." - Marcia Lee Laycock, author of One Smooth Stone, devotional columnist at "Dickson's latest work is breathtaking, sad and terrible, ugly and glorious, and shocking all at once, as full of grace as it is of truth. The story spins through continents and characters but never leaves the reader behind. If you value art, mysteries, a wild ride across time, and around the globe, you'll enjoy The Opposite of Art!" - Nora St.Laurent, founder of The Book Club Network, "Once again Athol Dickson proves his skill as a writer as he takes his readers on a pilgrimage. ![]() ![]() He takes the reader into the world of art, greed, murder, and mystery. "Athol Dickson pens an honest, gritty story of an artist tormented by love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her words bring to life the all-day Sunday services at the Sanctified church, the "perfect days" of her girlhood, and the ghost stories told on the porch of a soft midwestern summer evening. Taylor, who started a girls' string band and a whole assortment of street vendors and playmates who made up the world of her childhoodĪs she grew up, Fairbanks saw many different sides of her community. Neal, the genteel activist who showed her the difference between a salad fork and a dessert fork Mr. Its pages are filled with fascinating people: Mama and Daddy-Willie Mae and George Edwards-who taught her about love and pride an dignity Aunt Good, a tall and stately woman with a "queenly secretive attitude" brother Morris, who "took the time to teach me about the street and the people I would find there" Mrs. The Days of Rondo is Evelyn Fairbanks's affectionate memoir of this lively neighborhood. ![]() African Americans whose families had lived in Minnesota for decades and others who were just arriving from the South made up a vibrant, vital community that was in many ways independent of the white society around it. In the 1930s and the 1940s Rondo Avenue was at the heart of St. ![]() |