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A Wish in the Dark is a 2020 children's fantasy novel by American author Christina Soontornvat. It is a retelling of the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, and contains elements inspired by Thai culture. The book received positive reviews from critics and won a Newbery Honor and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award.
Christina Soontornvat (Thai: คริสติน่า สุนทรวัฒน์; born 1980) is an American author, educator, and mechanical engineer.She won two Newbery Honors in 2021 for the children's books A Wish in the Dark and All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team (fiction and nonfiction, respectively), and another Newbery Honor in 2023 for the ...
Three Thousand Years of Longing is a 2022 romantic fantasy drama film directed and produced by George Miller.Written by Miller and Augusta Gore, it is based on the 1994 short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A. S. Byatt and follows a djinn who is unleashed from a bottle by a professor (Tilda Swinton) and tells her stories from his thousands of years of existence.
Coming Home in the Dark is a 2021 New Zealand psychological thriller film based on a 1995 short-story of the same name by Owen Marshall. Directed by James Ashcroft and written by Eli Kent with James Ashcroft, the film stars Daniel Gillies , Erik Thomson , Miriama McDowell and Matthias Luafutu. [ 3 ]
When Morgana and Gregory confront Demarest, Gregory wishes for the Djinn to be sent back to hell. They are all transported inside the fire opal where Gregory is crucified. Morgana angrily wishes for a world without evil; the Djinn says without evil, good cannot exist. Morgana asks the Djinn the meaning of fulfilling the prophecy.
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She had formerly lived with her mother, Harry's ex-wife Eleanor Wish (a former FBI agent, ex-convict, and professional poker player, who Bosch met in The Black Echo and married while on a case in Las Vegas). Wish left Bosch in Angels Flight and was killed in Hong Kong in 9 Dragons. Recent stories find Bosch linked in a close relationship with ...
Because bank robbery is a federal crime, Bosch approaches the FBI's Los Angeles office and is introduced to Special Agent-In-Charge John Rourke and his subordinate, Agent Eleanor Wish. Conceding that Bosch may have useful insight into the case, Rourke invites Bosch and Wish to temporarily partner up, with the LAPD's reluctant agreement.