![]() ![]() Filled with love stories, action, and suspense, you get lost easily. I often compare them to Harry Potter in that they are just all around good stories. If they put as much money into them as they have Harry Potter, they would be as popular as Harry Potter. It tells of her story of fitting in, being raised by people so different, yet so similar, and her struggle to be like them without loosing herself. A type of cave people that becoming extinct while Ayla’s race thrives. She gets seperated from her people by an earthquake and near death, gets found and rescued by the Clan of the Cave Bear people. ![]() It’s a story of a girl named Ayla, who lived during the ice age in Europe. Along with Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, these are my favorite books. *The Earth Children Series by Jean Auel are outstanding books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They stay there till midnight and enjoy talking to each other. That place was the bank of the Hooghly River. And at night, they plan to go to a secret place. After four years they meet each other, then get a plan to visit Kolkata city. ![]() This book starts with a reunion of 4 friends. ![]() Some lines of Ravinder, before reading further.ĭays pass by somehow But nights now are a wagon of pain Injuries may heal with time But marks will always remain Restless on my comfortable bed I toss and turn and try to sleep But thoughts are bulking my head And have formed a huge heap The past is flashing its scorching light-beams Tearing me apart, breaking me at the seams The darkness of my life, is more visible in the dark And now I am trying to give it a voice, trying to speak my heart. Books starting with numbers in the Title ‘0-9’. ![]() ![]() It is the frequency on which these poems exist that matters, their urgency. ![]() ![]() Individual lines sometimes seem precious, pretentious or obscure but it seems footling to be detained by detail. The poetry is a conduit for a life in which violence and delicacy collide. As one reads on, it becomes evident that the collection is not so much about drowning as about the precarious work of resurfacing. It ends: “The face/not mine – but one I will wear/to kiss all my lovers good-night:/the way I seal my father’s lips/with my own & begin/the faithful work of drowning.” Disentangling traumatic memory from myth is no easy task. It describes turning his father’s corpse over in the sea and seeing a gun wound in his back. The second poem, Telemachus, is at once lyrical and horrific. ![]() "'ABC' were the only letters his beloved mother knew: 'But I can see the fourth letter:/a strand of black hair – unraveled/from the alphabet/&written/on her cheek.'" From there:Įven then, Vuong was, it seems, able tenderly to decipher more than he had been told to learn.Ībout his father, who dominates this collection, the story is murkier. "Among the most moving poems in this debut (feted in the US and already selling in unusual quantities here) is The Gift," Kellaway writes. At the Guardian, Kate Kellaway discusses (among other topics) Ben Lerner's influence on Ocean Vuong's poetry career and the role that unexpected juxtapositions, traumatic memory, and myth play in Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Visiting Day is a picture book about a little girl’s trips to see her father in prison. For example, If You Come Softly is about an interracial romance Hush tells the story of a family placed under the witness protection program and Sweet, Sweet Memory depicts the way a young girl copes with her grandfather’s death. That’s why Woodson chooses subjects that she thinks kids should be able to read about - even if they’re topics that are hard to explain or uncomfortable to talk about. That’s when she realized that she could actually help the younger generation simply through her words. ![]() ![]() She started writing when she was young, but her fiction for kids didn’t really click until she got older. Jacqueline Woodson is the author of numerous award-winning books for young adults, including Last Summer With Maizon, I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, and Miracle’s Boys. ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed the romance between Malcolm and Verity. Will love be enough to protect them from a treacherous plot devised to ruin them? But when the charade ends, the danger begins. The intimacy of this necessary arrangement-Verity and Malcom thrust together in close quarters-soon sparks an irresistible heat. How to keep them at bay? Verity must pretend to be his wife. Damn the feisty beauty who exposed the contented tosher to a parade of fortune-hunting matchmakers. ![]() ![]() Kidnapped as a child, with no memories of his well-heeled past, Malcom prefers the grimy spoils of the culverts to the gilded riches of society. Now that Verity’s made him front-page news, what will he make of her? That’s precisely where she finds happily self-sufficient scavenger Malcom North, lost heir to the Earl of Maxwell. To solve a mystery that’s become the talk of the ton, no clues run too deep for willful reporter Verity Lovelace. Christi Caldwell, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Wicked Wallflowers series, combs London’s underground and finds romance and danger for a missing lord and the lady who loves him. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL15154528W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 66.67 Pages 40 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1299253210 Urn:lcp:toomanydogs00hask:lcpdf:ced0a327-a7e9-4e9d-bdbc-d8681d7bd574 Dogs, Stories in rhyme, Chiens, Histoires rimes, Littrature de jeunesse anglaise. Too many dogs by Haskins, Lori Mathieu, Joseph, ill. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:07:36 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA107308 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donor ![]() ![]() ![]() He discovers the world that immigrants have made their own. And yet, despite the unsavoury characters and the reputation of the place, Hall discovers people and their stories just as any other place in the world. Living on a street filled with drug peddlers and prostitutes peddling their fare, it was not quite the London to write home about. It was not quite the London he had planned to introduce his fiancee, Anu to. ![]() He ends up staying for a little longer than he had planned to. Things don’t quite work as he planned, as most things in life. ![]() A place which he hopes is temporary, a place from where he hopes to move from before his Indian born, American fiancee lands in London. He had been priced out of the nicer London areas and the only place he could afford was a tiny, squalid attic, above a Bangladeshi sweatshop in London’s East end – Brick Lane. Returning back he realizes to his dismay that he cannot afford to live in the leafy suburbs of his childhood. Tarquin Hall returns to England after 10 years abroad. The fact that it was non-fiction, set in London’s East End sounded very interesting. ![]() The one which caught my eye was not one of the Vish Puri series, but this one- ‘Salaam Brick Lane’. After reading ‘The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken’ by Tarquin Hall, I started checking out the other books by the author. ![]() ![]() ![]() The article broadcasts themes of ecology and the unwavering will to survive that marine organisms embody. Prior to the publishing of Undersea, she wrote marine based radio scripts these writings influenced her later works. This work began as an eleven-page introduction to a government fisheries brochure, and grew into Carson's first book. Under the Sea Wind was based on the article Undersea previously written by Carson and was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1937. ![]() It is recognized today as one of the "definitive works of American nature writing," and is in print as one of the Penguin Nature Classics. ![]() After the great success of a sequel The Sea Around Us (Oxford, 1951), it was reissued by Oxford University Press that edition was an alternate Book-of-the-Month Club selection and became another bestseller, and has never gone out of print. Her book was published by Simon & Schuster in 1941 it received very good reviews, but sold poorly. Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life (1941) is the first book written by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson. ![]() ![]() This story was so fun, with crushes on boys and jealousy over other girls getting attention. Hephaestus was such a sweet character, I loved reading about him. I loved how this book told the story of Atalanta's race with the golden apples, one of my favorite myths. But Hephaestus may be the only one who can help her with a special project. ![]() She likes Hephaestus but when rumors swirl about them, she starts avoiding her friend. The only boy who still talks to her is Hephaestus, who walks with a limp. Aphrodite decides to give her friend, Athena, a makeover but doesn't really enjoy the result-all of the boys giving Athena attention instead of her. She especially loves the attention from handsome Atlas. It was so much fun while still containing a great message.Īphrodite has all the boys in school wrapped around her finger. The books teach the ancient stories and also teach valuable life lessons to young girls.Īfter reading the first three books in the series, "Aphrodite the Beauty" was possibly my favorite in the series. The modern twist is there, even while being fully contained on Mount Olympus. ![]() ![]() Each of the characters are lovingly crafted as a young, modern version of the classic figure. I love reading about the Greek myths and the tales in this series are perfectly told for young readers to learn how fun and exciting the myths are. ![]() ![]() The mother’s sister, Elizabeth, known to the children as “Aunt Branwell,” moved in with the family to help raise Emily, her four sisters, and brother Branwell. When Emily was just three, and only a year after moving to Haworth, on September 15, 1821, her mother, Maria, died after a long battle with cancer. The hamlet, situated among the picturesque yet isolated North England moors, was typical of small towns of the era, lacking amenities like sewers and a reliably clean water supply, which inevitably led to outbreaks of disease. ![]() At the age of two, her father moved the family-comprised of Emily’s older sisters Maria, Elizabeth, and Charlotte, older brother Patrick (known as “Branwell”), and younger sister Anne-from Thornton to nearby Haworth, a rustic village in Yorkshire, to assume the post of perpetual curate at the local parsonage. Emily was the fourth, and youngest, daughter in the family at the time she was born, but would be the second eldest of the sisters to survive into adulthood. ![]() Emily Jane Brontë was born on July 30, 1818, in the village of Thornton in Yorkshire, England, the fifth of six children born to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë, an Irish Anglican clergyman and poet. ![]() |