![]() ![]() But when Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. ![]() But they don't know this yet." So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family." - Entertainment Weekly "Lydia is dead. The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts "A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense." - O, the Oprah Magazine "Explosive. ![]()
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![]() The story begins in 'The Admiral Benbow', the inn that belongs to Jim Hawkin's parents. It is set in the days of ancient sailing ships and pirates and tells the adventures of Jim Hawkins and his search for the treasure which was buried by an evil pirate, the Captain Flint. Classic Starts treats the worlds beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve-all at an incomparable price. ![]() Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the wonderful title Treasure Island in 1881. ![]() ![]() ![]() By 1594 Shakespeare had become a member and part owner of an acting company called The Lord Chamberlain's Men, where he soon became the company's principal playwright. ![]() Some time before 1592, he left his family to take up residence in London, … More where he began acting and writing plays and poetry. He probably developed an interest in theatre by watching plays performed by traveling players in Stratford while still in his youth. ![]() At 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, the 27-year-old daughter of a local farmer, and they had their first daughter six months later. He was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, son of John Shakespeare, a prosperous merchant and local politician and Mary Arden, who had the wealth to send their oldest son to Stratford Grammar School. William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616 Although there are many myths and mysteries surrounding William Shakespeare, a great deal is actually known about his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Kimberly Brower, Brower Literary & Management. Readers motivated to see this unlikely heroine succeed will forgive the more fantastical indulgences of this light, escapist romance. ![]() ![]() From New York Times bestselling authors Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward comes an unexpected love story that starts long before the lovers meet. Though Griffin and Luca’s letters are endearing and believably intimate, Griffin’s rock-star status and extreme wealth feel much less plausible. Dirty Letters Dirty Letters Writing with Vi Keeland 1 Kindle Book on all of Amazon. Though their bond in person is even stronger than it was in print, Luca worries that Griffin’s life in the public eye is incompatible with her anxieties. Luca steels herself to travel cross-country and surprise Griffin, only to arrive and discover that he lives a double life as rock star Cole Archer. Despite years of silence, they quickly become close again and their renewed correspondence slides into sexual talk. From New York Times best-selling authors Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward comes an unexpected love story that started with a boy and girl and heats up when the. Reclusive novelist Luca Vinetti, whose mental health has deteriorated since the fire that killed her best friend eight years ago, receives an angry letter from Griffin Quinn, the childhood pen pal she stopped responding to after the accident. An anxious, agoraphobic heroine takes center stage in this optimistic contemporary from Keeland and Ward, who last collaborated on Hate Notes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Logevall takes us inside the councils of warand gives us a seat at the conference tables where peace talks founder. In between come years of political, military, and diplomatic maneuvering and miscalculation, as leaders on all sides embark on a series of stumbles that makes an eminently avoidable struggle a bloody and interminable reality. It concludes in 1959, with a Viet Cong ambush on an outpost outside Saigon and the deaths of two American officers whose names would be the first to be carved into the black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Embers of War opens in 1919 at the Versailles Peace Conference, where a young Ho Chi Minh tries to deliver a petition for Vietnamese independence to President Woodrow Wilson. ![]() How did it happen? Tapping into newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations and making full use of the published literature, distinguished scholar Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to lose their way in Vietnam. ![]() For France, the defeat marked the effective end of her colonial empire, while for America the war left a gaping wound in the body politic that remains open to this day. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world's powers and saw two of themfirst France, then the United Statesattempt to subdue the revolutionary Vietnamese forces. The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Black Award, 1998, for Zak's Lunch Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award nominee, and Wyoming Buckaroo Award nominee, both 1998, both for Zoom Broom Pennsylvania Keystone State Reading Award, 2002, Golden Sower Award, 2003, and North Dakota Flicker Tale Award nominee, and M. 1995, all for Piggie Pie! Indiana Young Hoosier Award nomination, 1995, for Piggie Pie!, 2002, for Bedhead, 2003, for The Web Files, and 2003, for Earthquack! International Reading Association Children's Choice designation, 1997, for Moosetache, 1998, for Zak's Lunch, 2000, for Good as Goldie, and 2004, for Stinky Smelly Feet and The Perfect Pet Bank Street College Irma S. AWARDS, HONORS:Īmerican Library Association (ALA) Notable Book designation, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Notable Trade Book in Language Arts designation, Pennsylvania Keystone State Reading Award, Kentucky Bluegrass Children's Book Award, Vermont Red Clover Award, Kansas Reading Association's Bill Martin, Jr., Picture-Book Award, Colorado Children's Choice Book Award, Florida Reading Association Award Honor designation, Nebraska Golden Sower Award honor designation, California Young Readers' Medal nomination, Washington Children's Choice nomination, Ohio Buckeye Award nomination, and Georgia Children's Book Award nomination, all c. E-mail- CAREER:Ĭhildren's writer and illustrator. Education: Moore College of Art and Design, B.F.A. ![]() Born in Edison, NJ married children: Jamie (son). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The noise had come from her right, off the path, in a thicket of trees. Even without actively sniffing, her nose burned as if she'd snorted chili powder.īut her reluctance evaporated the moment she heard the shrieks of a wounded animal. The unexpected wave of late summer heat turned the scent rancid. The brief tang she'd caught had been like gargling coppery fire-it choked her. She'd forgotten to have Esmerelda remove the spell before she left the herpetarium. She hesitated to test the air again-not that she wasn't used to blood, she'd dealt with buckets of the thick red stuff when she was in charge of feeding the manticore, but her nose hadn't been enchanted for hyper sensing then like it was in that moment. ![]() She stuttered to a stop, her shoes scuffing gravel on the path. Pax smelled blood on the way past the fyrehound dome at the Portland Supernatural Zoo. Inquires may be addressed via email to CONTENTS No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, except by an authorized retailer, or with written permission of the publisher. All characters, places, and incidents described in this publication are used fictitiously, or are entirely fictional. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some come looking for money or romance or home. Like all good love songs, the stories in Hong Kong Noir are dark.Everyone in Hong Kong Noir is on the move. The history of Hong Kong, once a fishing village, encompasses piracy, the opium trade, prostitution, corruption, espionage and revolutionary plots grist for the 14 dark tales in Hong Kong Noir. What better way to tie together the present and the past-the living and the dead-than through ghost stories? ![]() Hong Kong Noir digs below the financial centre's gleaming surface to unearth stories of the city's ghosts and spirits.The stories touch on major points in Hong Kong modern history: the horrors of Japanese occupation, post-war poverty, the economic boom under the British, the city's return to Chinese sovereignty, and the tensions of the 2014 'umbrella movement' occupation of key thoroughfares by pro-democracy activists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Celebrate Grandparents Day with 50 great kids books about grandparents.Anxiety & Wellbeing - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health.Jacqueline Wilson - our Guest Editor of the Month.Branford Boase 2023 – what the judges had to say about the shortlist.Read Hour returns for its third year in the UK with Moomin Characters.In its 20th year, the shortlist for CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award) reflects the wealth of talent in children’s poetry.13 Children's Books Featuring Poverty and Homelessness.30 enticing chapter books for children who are newly independent readers.60 kids books about grief to explain death to children and help them grieve. ![]() LGBTQI+ Children's Books celebrating Pride in London and Pride Month this June.Sophie Cameron - our Author of the Month.Best kids books for getting children walking for National Walking Month and Walk to School Week. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clem’s unsettling attachment to his sister Becky colors his every decision, and her rejection of him leads ultimately to a rejection of her family. Marion sees signs of her own youthful downfall in Perry’s increasingly drugged-out behavior. The family’s frustrations and fears are deeply interwoven. In a time when Americans are reading less-and even fewer read literary fiction-Franzen stands alone as a writer whose novels are treated as events. ![]() The children aren’t doing any better: Their son Perry becomes convinced of his own damnation, daughter Becky is trying to get dreamy folk-rocker Tanner to break up with his girlfriend, and the college student Clem declines the student draft deferment because he believes it has made him as weak as his father. His frustrated wife, Marion, wants either to lose some weight or her crippling need for self-control. The patriarch of the family is Russ, a local pastor at First Reformed Church who longs to regain his edge-and in the process to sleep with his congregation’s most eligible divorcee. It is two days before Christmas 1971, and the novel follows the fates of the Hildebrandt family, each on a quest for ill-conceived self-fulfillment. The story opens in New Prospect, a fictional Chicago suburb much like the one in which Franzen was born. Following 2015’s techno-paranoiac misfire Purity, Franzen’s sixth novel marks a return to the Midwestern realism of his National Book Award-winning novel, The Corrections. ![]() |