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![]() ![]() Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car driven by Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented migrant from Guatemala. Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms between three people thrown together by circumstance. ![]() it pursues an age-old question: how to live a full life and find meaning, not just survive or endure one's past' Financial Times on In the Midst of Winter New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende returns with a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds. Allende has an unflashy wisdom to offer, a maturity that illuminates her storytelling. **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** **The captivating new novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover** 'In some of the most beautiful passages in the novel, Allende explores the gentle but redemptive depths of mature love and the paths it can take. ![]() ![]() ![]() For centuries, Ukraine has been a meeting place of various cultures. Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine was shaped by the empires that used it as a strategic gateway between East and West - from the Roman and Ottoman empires to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. ![]() As the award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine’s past in order to understand its present and future. ![]() But today’s conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine’s territory and its existence as a sovereign nation. Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Any time I meet a fellow Anastasia devotee, our love of the books serves as a shortcut to mutual understanding.Īnastasia is a smart kid who isn’t a Smart Kid. Lois Lowry is one of the biggest names in chapter books, and the winner of two Newbery Medals for The Giver and Number the Stars, but the Anastasia books, of which there are nine, are her cult classics. But one who is actually fairly ordinary, albeit in a special way: Anastasia Krupnik. Not a character who imagines themselves to be perfectly ordinary only to find out that they are, in fact, very special-so special in fact that their life’s work will be to shield an entire Community from the crushing pain of memory. With all due respect to Jonas from The Giver, my heart belongs to a different Lois Lowry protagonist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will Greg be lucky in love and get his home back?WHAT'S IN DIARY OF A WIMPY KID? 50% words, 50% cartoons, 100% hilarious! Stories that all readers can't wait to get their hands on Laughter guaranteed! *BRAND NEW* DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE DEEP END IS OUT NOW! 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A global phenomenon with 250 million copies of the series sold worldwide!Greg Heffley's school is holding a Valentine's Day dance, and it's turned his world upside down. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when it accidentally bites Papa, Sister finally realizes that if she really loves little Brown Eyes, she'll do what's best for the chipmunk and return him to the outdoors where he belongs. The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Mansion Berenstain Bears 28.6K subscribers 710K views 6 years ago Season 1 episode 5, Original Air Date. However, the bigger it grows the more active it gets, and the more mess it makes the more trouble it causes. As a baby, all the chipmunk does is eat and sleep. ![]() The Baby Chipmunk: When she adopts a baby chipmunk, Sister learns the hard way about trying to keep a non-domesticated animal as a house pet. Brother and Sister team up to find out if the ghost is real or not. The Baby Chipmunk: When she adopts a baby chipmunk, Sister learns the hard way about trying to keep a non-domesticated animal as a The Haunted Lighthouse: The Bears are visiting an old lighthouse that's rumored to be haunted by the ghost of it's keeper, Captain Salt. ![]() Summary: The Haunted Lighthouse: The Bears are visiting an old lighthouse that's rumored to be haunted by the ghost of it's keeper, Captain Salt. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first two installations of the series, Angelfall and World After, have been translated into more than 20 languages. The modern world’s perception of angels were as guardian angels, however Susan Ee in this book took a step back to the original representation of angels as being destructive. The inspiration to write the series came from Susan Ee’s personal fascination of angels. She has attended workshops at Stanford, Clarion West, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. ![]() Apart from that, Susan Ee is also a short story writer with some of them published in publications like Realms of Fantasy and the Dragons and the Stars. Lawyer turned writer, Susan Ee is the author of the fantasy thriller Penryn and the End of Days trilogy. ![]() Known for her bestselling fantasy novel, Angelfall, Susan Ee has become a big name in the literature industry. ![]() ![]() "Disturbing, brilliantly plotted, and boasting a balanced mix of action and scheming. But are they desperate enough to believe that death will set them free? Conditions are worse than ever and kids are desperate to get out. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. They say that death is a way to escape the FAYZ. And all the while deadly rumors are raging like the fire itself, spread by the prophetess Orsay and her companion, Nerezza. Sam and Caine defeated him along with the Darkness-or so they thought.Īs Perdido Beach burns, battles rage: Astrid against the Town Council the Human Crew versus the mutants and Sam against Drake, who is back from the dead and ready to finish where he and Sam left off. A girl who died now walks among the living Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach, and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most: Drake. It's been seven months since all the adults disappeared. ![]() ![]() ![]() The third book in Michael Grant's New York Times bestselling Gone series, Lies is another heart-in-your-throat page-turner, both chilling and thought-provoking. ![]() ![]() ![]() I absolutely loved this book! First off, let’s look at the cover – I have the Owlcrate copy of the book which is absolutely gorgeous, but the original cover is just as amazing. Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and family while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life hating. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend, who sees her as a threat. ![]() But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield-her brother, fighting with the enemy-the brother she watched die five years ago.įaced with her brother’s betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan. Part Wonder Woman, part Vikings-and all heart. ![]() ![]() I loved this book and will definitely be rereading it. Coming in an Owlcrate box, I expected great things from this book that was slated as having a character that was half Viking, half Wonder Woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To understand Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America. Requiem for a Dream, a movie about four people whose lives are gradually destroyed by their various addictions (and the emotional voids they’re trying to fill), was based on a brutal, poetic. HIs work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Doestoevsky's. "Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists. Even as their lives slowly deteriorate around them, they cling to their delusions and become utterly consumed in the spiral of drugs and addiction, refusing to see that they have instead created their own worst nightmares. Entranced by the gleaming visions of their futures, these four convince themselves that unexpected setbacks are only temporary. She becomes addicted to diet pills in her obsessive quest, while her junkie son, Harry, along with his girlfriend, Marion, and his best friend, Tyrone, have devised an illicit shortcut to wealth and leisure by scoring a pound of uncut heroin. In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show. ![]() |