![]() ![]() But when her father contacts her, setting in motion the ugly truth of her destiny, Jonah must choose. ![]() Jonah trades in his bad-boy reputation and puts his heart on the line. But resisting Raven’s effortless allure and uncomplicated nature is a fight he can’t win. Undefeated in the octagon, he’s at the height of his career. Weeks away from his title fight, Jonah is determined to stay focused on everything he’s trained so hard to achieve. Until she catches the eye of local celebrity, UFL playboy Jonah Slade. Flying under the radar is all she knows, and more than she expects. With few friends, she’s content with the simple life. Liberated from the neglectful home of her prostitute mother, she finds solace as a mechanic. The only daughter of an infamous Las Vegas pimp, Raven Morretti grew up an outsider. ![]() What happens when in order to win, you’re forced to lose? ![]()
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![]() ![]() She’s unlikely ever to be named the face of a multimillion-dollar beauty ad campaign, have a commercial doll modeled after her, or land her own reality TV series.Ĭhloe’s story of identifying as a boy at 12 years old and going under the knife at just 15-only to regret it a few months later-doesn’t qualify her for glitzy, lucrative, virtue-signaling endorsements. ![]() Unlike Jennings, you won’t find Chloe and her story featured on the cover of Variety magazine. Yet, despite a growing presence in conservative media, her public profile hardly compares to transgender activists such as reality TV personality Jazz Jennings. ![]() Chloe Cole is perhaps the most well-known detransitioner in America. ![]() ![]() Audra's story deserves a place on the shelf next to Lois Lowry's Number the Stars and Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief." - Booklist, starred review Can joining the underground network of book smugglers give Audra a chance to rescue her parents? But escape means abandoning her parents to a terrible fate.Īs Audra embarks on a journey to deliver the mysterious package, she faces unimaginable risks, and soon she becomes caught up in a growing resistance movement. ![]() ![]() In June 1893, when Cossacks arrive abruptly at their door, Audra's parents insist that she flee, taking with her an important package and instructions for where to deliver it. But Audra knows her parents are involved in something secret and perilous. She always avoids the occupying Russian Cossack soldiers, who insist that everyone must become Russian - they have banned Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language. Nielsen transports readers to a corner of history with this inspiring story of a girl who discovers the strength of her people united in resisting oppression.ĭanger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Big slaughters of indigenous peoples that somehow are rarely mentioned by vocal anti-imperialists around the world, cultural genocides, brutal policy of destroying all things local and enforcing those coming from the Moscovite centre. The ones that caught my attention the most are from Caucasus, and increasingly from Central Asia, from all the “-stans” I’m ashamed to admit I know very little about. Then I deepened my perspective in another direction as well, and thanks to Twitter! Mixed within discussions there, discussions on Russian colonialism and Russian attempts to subjugate Ukraine not only on political level, but to negate the existence of Ukrainians as a nation with distinct culture, are voices of other victims or Russian imperialism. I’m just not a Polish nationalist I was in my early teens. I also read up on Ukrainian perspective on Polish history, although admittedly I was moving in that direction for years. I had good reasons, and not just anti-Russian ones, the biggest was to concentrate on Ukrainian perspective, not only on the present conflict, but on history and culture as well. Last year I decided not to read Russian authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() A classic, gripping, engrossing story full of powerful characters. If one is searching for a history lesson embedded in a good plot this is not the book. The book is not a lesson in Afghan history or Islam. This book is written and read in the precise way it should have been. But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope for redemption. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons - their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara - a shunned ethnic minority. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. ![]() ![]() MEET MO AND ELLA is tough to find now, but FUN WITH MO AND ELLA should still be out there somewhere. ![]() My first two official books were beginning readers, part of Grosset & Dunlap’s “First Friends” series for kids learning to read. Much to my parents’ relief, I abandoned my theatrical aspirations after college for the far more stable and lucrative career of fiction writing. I graduated from Williams College in ’98 and I currently live in Boston with my husband, my perfect new baby, and my adorable yoodle Sunshine (what’s a yoodle? A puppy that’s three-quarters poodle and one-quarter Yorkshire terrier, of course!). because it was artistically fulfilling, yes.) ![]() I was born July 31 (same birthday as Harry Potter!) in Caracas, Venezuela, and lived in Asuncion, Paraguay Miami, Florida and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, before moving to New Jersey in high school, where I started doing theatre-mostly backstage work, because (a) it was fun, and (b) you got to hang out in the dark with cute boys. ![]() Among the many great things to come out of New Zealand (the Lord of the Rings movies, cats that paint, my mom) is a bird called the tui-not as well known as the kiwi, but a heck of a lot noisier! ![]() Tui? What kind of name is that? Is it short for something? ![]() ![]() ![]() When he first appears in Millard’s account, Garfield is with his wife and six children, strolling through the exhibition in anticipation of exploring the scientific marvels on display. ![]() In that regard, it seems a safe bet the background of his months-long death spiral after the shooting is even more obscure.īut, as Millard makes clear, the fate of Garfield and the suffering of his wife and children wracked the country throughout the summer of 1881.Īs an Ohio Congressman, Garfield was a respected, learned man with a propensity for loquaciousness. Garfield served less than a year as commander in chief and is remembered as a footnote president, if at all. It is a fascinating look into a period of neglected American history. So begins Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, Candice Millard’s account of President James Garfield’s assassination and the medical bungling that led to his death at the age of 49. ![]() ![]() The backdrop: portions of the yet-to-be-assembled Statue of Liberty on display for thousands of curious onlookers. Then, in a flashback from four years earlier, the other major protagonists, from the soon-to-be 20th president to men who revolutionized medicine and communications, share the stage at the nation’s Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. First, the killer walks away from a deadly steamship accident on Long Island Sound. ![]() ![]() ![]() Who lead Daniel to his love for Chaplin What inspired the lyrics of the one-hit wonder Daniel penned (the copyright fees for which, sourced by Elisabeth paid his nursing home fees) and the story behind who co-wrote the song. Why Sophia hid that stone under the shoes in her wardrobe and (and how by doing so she inadvertently saved Daniel’s most valuable possession and - this may be a stretch on my behalf - his life). ![]() Wendy, Elisabeth, Zoe, Daniel, Hannah, Adrienne Albert, Klein, Pauline Boty - from AutumnĬharlotte, Art, Iris, Sophia (in memory), Barbara Hepworth - from Winter Summer uses the characters of Autumn and Winter to explore the themes of Spring (while also making it clear that those themes ran through the full quartet) through a new shared experience for us all. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although she and Lizzie begin as best friends, Ruby soon becomes another casualty of Lizzie's instability. Lizzie proceeds to alienate Noah by throwing a loss-of-virginity party immediately afterwards with the help of her roommate Ruby. Soon after arriving at Harvard, Lizzie decides to lose her virginity to an older student, Noah. Through a series of flashbacks, it is clear that there was a total communication breakdown between Lizzie's parents, which is soon reflected in Lizzie's own relationship with her mother. ![]() Despite his lack of interest and involvement, Lizzie still misses her father, a contributing factor to her depression. She has been raised by her divorced mother since she was two years old and has not seen her father at all in the last four years. The title is a reference to Prozac, the brand name of an antidepressant she was prescribed.Įlizabeth "Lizzie" Wurtzel is a 19-year-old accepted into Harvard with a scholarship in journalism. It is based on Elizabeth Wurtzel's 1994 memoir of the same name, which describes Wurtzel's experiences with atypical depression. Prozac Nation is a 2001 psychological drama film directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg, starring Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs, Anne Heche, Michelle Williams, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Jessica Lange. ![]() ![]() “No…Ī minute later, when we stepped from the building, we… The next day was a Saturday, the day we usually… We’d been there a week when we found the sled. ![]() Two days later, at four A.M., I waited downstairs while… It got colder and wetter, and I got so I… Outside the closed windows, leaves began to fall, but inside,… ![]() I woke before sunrise, to remove the dead leaves from… “I thought of something helpful,” Will had said the day… Someone was knocking! I couldn’t answer it.Īt noon, Magda brought Lindy her lunch. In the next days, I worked harder than I’d ever… I picked up one petal from my dresser, dangled it… That night, for the first time since moving to Brooklyn,… You’d have to say Will and I bonded in the… My father bought a brownstone…ĭad was quick. Sometimes, when you’re walking in New York-probably anywhere, but especially… That night I couldn’t stop thinking about what Dr. Good to know: Doctors can’t cure you of being a… “What are you doing here?” I said it loud enough…ĭad left, promising to be back for lunch after he… ![]() I had planned on picking Sloane up in the limo,…įast-forward through the evening. The day of the dance, I got into the tuxedo… Okay, maybe Sloane didn’t tell Kendra she was my date… I wasn’t home two minutes when Sloane Hagen, a typical… I could feel everyone looking at me, but I was… ![]() Joyce Sweeney (and various members of her Reassuring me that it wasn’t just a crazy idea: The following people for their help, and also for Who is finally old enough to read one of my books! ![]() |