Author : Bella Osborne
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 000846491X
‘Lovely heart-warming story! I smiled a lot and laughed... Loved every minute of it!’ NetGalley reviewer,⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Author : Lynn Bulock
Publisher : Thomas Bouregy
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 1990-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803488069
Fiction -romance an Avalon Romance.
Author : J. B. Howard
Publisher : Viking Books for Young Readers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2019
Category : YOUNG ADULT FICTION
ISBN : 0451480201
Feeling like an outsider in her adoptive family, 16-year-old Nora Wakelin identifies three women living elsewhere in California who could be her biological mother. So she sets out to track them each down, one by one, under the pretense of a statewide tour with her rock band, Blue Miles.
Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1908745193
Celebrating 50 years of Tove Jansson's classic, bestselling novel Featured in the BBC 2 Between the Covers Bookclub Special (Eurovision series 2023) 'Distils the essence of summer' Robert Macfarlane 'Magical, life-affirming' Elizabeth Gilbert The Worldwide Classic about a tiny island and larger love. An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself. Written in a clear, unsentimental style, full of brusque humour, and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story. Tove Jansson captured much of her own life and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of her adult novels. With a foreword by Esther Freud and an afterword by Sophia Jansson (on whom the child 'Sophia' is based) who returns to the island during the pandemic at the point of becoming a grandmother herself. Includes a 15pp epilogue by Tove's niece Sophia Jansson - the inspiration for 'Sophia' - on a personal and moving return to the island. 'Eccentric, funny, wise, full of joys and small adventures. This is a book for life.' Esther Freud 'Tove Jansson was a genius. This is a marvellous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny.' Philip Pullman
Author : Robin Constantine
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062279505
Robin Constantine's New Jersey romance The Promise of Amazing is a sexy, poignant, funny, and authentic debut novel that will appeal to fans of books by Stephanie Perkins, Sarah Mlynowski, and Jennifer E. Smith. Wren Caswell is average. Ranked in the middle of her class at Sacred Heart, she's not popular, not a social misfit. Wren is the quiet good girl who's always done what she's supposed to—only now, in her junior year, this passive strategy is backfiring. She wants to change but doesn't know how. Grayson Barrett was the king of St. Gabe's: star of the lacrosse team, top of his class, and on the fast track to a brilliant future—until he was expelled for being a "term-paper pimp." Now Gray is in a downward spiral and needs to change but doesn't know how. One fateful night, their paths cross at Wren's family's Arthurian-themed catering hall. What follows is the complicated, awkward, hilarious, and tender tale of two teens shedding their pasts, figuring out who they are—and falling in love.
Author : Sara Kocek
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 080756642X
As if starting high school weren't bad enough, Reyna Fey has to do so at a new school without her best friends. Reyna's plan is to keep her head down, help her father recover from the car accident that almost took his life, and maybe even make some friends. And then Olive Barton notices her. Olive is not exactly the kind of new friend Reyna has in mind. The boys make fun of her, the girls want to fight her, and Olive seems to welcome the challenge. There's something about Olive that Reyna can't help but like. But when Reyna learns Olive's secret, she must decide whether it's better to be good friends with an outcast or fake friends with the popular kids. . . .before she loses Olive forever.
Author : Adam Braun
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476730636
This the story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life. The author began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling he met a young boy begging on the streets of India, who after being asked what he wanted most in the world, simply answered, "A pencil." This small request led to a staggering series of events that took the author backpacking through dozens of countries before eventually leaving one of the world's most prestigious jobs at Bain & Company to found Pencils of Promise, the organization he started with just $25 that has since built more than 200 schools around the world. This book chronicles the author's journey to find his calling, as each chapter explains one clear step that every person can take to turn your biggest ambitions into reality, even if you start with as little as $25. His story takes readers behind the scenes with business moguls and village chiefs, world-famous celebrities and hometown heroes. It is filled with compelling stories and shareable insights. All proceeds from this book support Pencils of Promise.
Author : Lee Evie
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2019-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780648732310
In the ancient Korean city of Hanyang, a gisaeng slave girl is forced to turn spy for a shadowy organisation with dangerous intentions. In return she wants only one thing. Yet it is not her freedom Seorin so desperately desires, it is something far more precious ... and she will face anything, even death, to gain it.
Author : Katie Flynn
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 9780750541916
"Maddy Hebditch has been living in poor conditions with her cantankerous grandmother since she was orphaned when she was young. And although life is hard, Maddy has her friends Alice, Marigold, and Tom to help her. Together the four spend summers exploring the Dales and making plans for the future. Until war breaks out and everything changes. Maddy joins the ATS, where she is recruited for one of the most dangerous jobs a woman could do in wartime: work on the ack-ack sites. All four face dangers as the war worsens, but when Tom is terribly injured Maddy's world falls apart..." (from back cover).
Author : Christine Day
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062872036
In her debut middle grade novel—inspired by her family’s history—Christine Day tells the story of a girl who uncovers her family’s secrets—and finds her own Native American identity. All her life, Edie has known that her mom was adopted by a white couple. So, no matter how curious she might be about her Native American heritage, Edie is sure her family doesn’t have any answers. Until the day when she and her friends discover a box hidden in the attic—a box full of letters signed “Love, Edith,” and photos of a woman who looks just like her. Suddenly, Edie has a flurry of new questions about this woman who shares her name. Could she belong to the Native family that Edie never knew about? But if her mom and dad have kept this secret from her all her life, how can she trust them to tell her the truth now?
