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When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? A new novel in The Hunger Games franchise, "Sunrise on the Reaping," is slated to be released on March 18, 2025 by Suzanne Collins! The story will take place 24 years before Katniss Everdeen's first Games (and 40 years after "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes"), starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games aka the Second Quarter Quell. Fans will know this as the Hunger Games that Haymitch Abernathy, Katniss's and Peeta's mentor, won. The film adaptation has been announced for a November 2026 release. Synopsis: "They will not use my tears for their entertainment." – Haymitch Abernathy Pre-order is available now: https://thehungergames.com/

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Teenagers still read Harry Potter & Twilight books in 2023 but I very seldom hear talk about the Hunger Games books and very seldom are the movies talked about

Madonna - A Rebel Life by Mary Gabriel, book release October 10 In this "lushly evocative" 880 page biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern Madonna. With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion—as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles—taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna lookalike contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called “Madonna-land.” But Madonna was more than just a pop star. Everywhere, fans gravitated to her as an emblem of a new age, one in which feminism could shed the buttoned-down demeanor of the 1970s and feel relevant to a new generation. Amid the scourge of AIDS, she brought queer identities into the mainstream, fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever—and be whoever—they wanted. Despite fierce criticism, she never separated her music from her political activism. And, as an artist, she never stopped experimenting. Madonna existed to push past boundaries by creating provocative, visionary music, videos, films, and live performances that changed culture globally. Deftly tracing Madonna’s story from her Michigan roots to her rise to super-stardom, master biographer Mary Gabriel captures the dramatic life and achievements of one of the greatest artists of our time. Reviews so far: 'A whopping biography of the pop phenomenon and queen of reinvention. Life is a mystery - hers oughtn't to be after reading this.' THE TIMES, ' biggest books for autumn' 'A fascinating take on one of music's greatest icons' BELFAST TELEGRAPH In this exceptional biography, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna. 'Daring to write a biography of a woman with whom the entire world is on a first-name basis, Mary Gabriel has created (astonishingly) a book neither gossip-driven nor highly snarky... she reveals instead a Madonna both more true and more unbelievably believable; a rock-and-roll suffragette... Norman Mailer once said to Madonna, 'I've come to the conclusion that you are a great artist.' Exquisitely detailed in her storytelling, Gabriel is clearly in that camp, convincing us that we all still vogue in the House of Madonna.' Brad Gooch, author of City Poe

https://x.com/_pat_stz/status/1682462577517838342?s=46&t=F-yAGOO8sg6iK2lz6TY9BQ https://www.instagram.com/p/CvRsbOtAp9c/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== https://www.instagram.com/p/CvSOP7sNECs/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Out this October. Looks terrible. **** Disney