![]() ![]() ![]() Once again Diane Tullson demonstrates a keen awareness of what drives ordinary teenagers in trouble - their loyalties, their petty jealousies and that aching sense of isolation that makes them withdraw from the world. One day she'll be able to stop but will that day come too late?Ī gripping story - by the author of the critically acclaimed Edge, Blue Highway explores teen alcoholism in a way that is neither didactic nor judgmental. And as the summer progresses, Truth watches herself gradually lose control in a series of self-destructive acts. Truth's reckless behavior does catch his attention, but not in a good way. And she wants Ryan, the seriously handsome guy who works at the pizza oven. Truth doesn't know why, but she can't seem to get what she really wants. Tullson drew higher acclaim for her 2005 novel, Red Sea. Cars mean freedom - freedom to go where they want and do what they please. story that 'tends to meander,' the novel is 'a worthwhile read.' Although not all comments have been favorable, Blue Highway garnered enough notice to earn a Stellar Award nomination in 2007. But the two really only have eyes for Vale's car, which she will get as soon as she passes her driving exam. They befriend Vale, a co-worker who is grateful for their attention. They love to drive cars, they love to party, and they booze it up whenever they can.Īnd when the two girls find summer jobs at the local pizza shop, they see no reason to change their habits. Truth and Skye are just like all their high-school friends. A thought-provoking novel from a major voice in young adult fiction ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Frequently ranked among the most challenged children's authors by the American Library Association (ALA), Naylor utilizes her texts to present candid examinations of the sorts of social issues and concerns that are important to her large body of adolescent female readers. With their realistic depictions of childhood and adolescent situations, Naylor's children's books-particularly her ongoing "Alice" series of young adult novels-have earned her strong sales, considerable critical consideration, and numerous censorship challenges. ![]() For further information on her life and career, see CLR, Volume 17. The following entry presents an overview of Naylor's career through 2007. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 1933– INTRODUCTIONĪmerican novelist, essayist, nonfiction writer, and author of picture books, easy readers, juvenile novels and short stories, and young adult novels. ![]() ![]() Living in a large old house in the square are middle-aged sisters Angela and Olivia Chesney, Angela is the youngest by about a decade, but it is to her that Olivia, and the garden committee –among others – defer. ![]() Catford Street is a place where nothing very much ever grows, the children there are small and scrawny, running wild, gathering in gangs in the bomb damaged ruins that still litter the street. At the end of Catford Street, is a gracious London square, a square of houses of an altogether different kind, they have a very pleasant garden, a gardener and a gardening committee. Set in London sometime after the Second World War, among the street children who run up and down the grim, unloveliness of Catford Street, An Episode of Sparrows shows poignantly the simple joy that a garden can bring. ![]() She understands acutely the heartbreaks and frustrations of children, how so often adults misunderstand them, and let them down. Rumer Godden’s depiction of children and childhood is particularly good as I have found in other novels by her. ![]() As such it was chosen by the Librarything Virago group as one of the books for the childhood section of the Seven Ages of Women theme read. To me it certainly doesn’t read as a children’s book (although nothing in the content would preclude a child reading it) but more, as a book for adults about children. I have seen An Episode of Sparrows referred to as a young adult or even a children’s book, although Wikipedia lists it in amongst Rumer Godden’s adult novels, and having read it I think it fits there more comfortably. ![]() ![]() "It's like when you find that amazing piece of chocolate-you take a bite, and it sits on your tongue and melts into a pool of liquid heaven: Florand has managed to capture that emotional experience and put it into the pages of her novel." - RT Book Reviews " comfortable beach read. Every chocolate I've made since I met you, I've made for you.'" -Eloisa James, NPR.org The Chocolate Thief is for days when you lust not for wisdom, but for a bar of chocolate-at any price-and a hero who understands what is truly important: 'Every dream I have has you in my apartment, has you in my laboratoire, has you with my babies. ![]() Whether confections taken from a locked shop or kisses in the dark, is there anything sweeter? Not unless there's something much more delectable on the table. ![]() But turn them over to a brash American waving a fistful of dollars? Jamais. Melting, yielding yet firm, exotic, its secrets are intimately known to Sylvain Marquis. ![]() For American Cade Corey, it's a dream come true, if only she can get one infuriating French chocolatier to sign on the dotted line. When an American heiress and a French chocolatier butt heads, the business of chocolate is about to become a labor of love in this romantic comedy.īreathtakingly beautiful, the City of Light seduces the senses, its cobbled streets thrumming with possibility. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Beatryce knows that, should she lose her way, those who love her-a wild-eyed monk, a man who had once been king, a boy with a terrible sword, and a goat with a head as hard as stone-will never give up searching for her, and to know this is to know everything. ![]() As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils them all-for the king of the land seeks just such a girl, and Brother Edik, who penned the prophecy himself, knows why.Īnd so it is that a girl with a head full of stories-powerful tales-within-the-tale of queens and kings, mermaids and wolves-ventures into a dark wood in search of the castle of one who wishes her dead. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. ![]() In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall comes a fantastical meditation on fate, love, and the power of words to spell the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Spanish Love Deception is an enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating romance. Never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling and insufferable man.īut Catalina is desperate and as the wedding gets closer the more desirable an option Aaron Blackford becomes. But even then, when Aaron Blackford - the 6''4, blue-eyed pain in the arse - offers to step in, she''s not tempted even for a second. NYC to Spain is no short flight and her family won''t be easy to fool. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic for her and aid in her deception. Now everyone she knows - including her ex-boyfriend and his fiancee - will be there. ![]() Especially when her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Three days to convince your family you''re actually in love.Ĭatalina Martin desperately needs a date to her sister''s wedding. WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR.Ī wedding in Spain. ![]() ![]() ![]() (In fact, the entire Mary Oliver motif in “The Anthologist” may well be a sly joke on Baker’s part.) By any measure, Oliver is a distinguished and important poet. ![]() Yes, he’s a fictional character, but he’s precisely the kind of person who tends to look down on Mary Oliver’s poetry. And yet each has something.”Ĭoming from Chowder, this statement is a surprise. In her work, he finds consolation: “I immediately felt more sure of what I was doing.” Of her poems, he says, “They’re very simple. For solace and inspiration, he turns to poets who have been his touchstones-Louise Bogan, Theodore Roethke, Sara Teasdale-before discovering Oliver. ![]() His girlfriend, with whom he’s lived for eight years, has just left him, ostensibly because he has been unable to write the long-overdue introduction to a poetry anthology that he has been putting together. “Mary Oliver is saving my life,” Paul Chowder, the title character of Nicholson Baker’s novel “ The Anthologist,” scrawls in the margins of Oliver’s “ New and Selected Poems, Volume One.” A struggling poet, Chowder is suffering from a severe case of writer’s block. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please help support local independent bookstores by purchasing this book at Browseabout Books, official bookseller of the History Book Festival. She has hosted programs on the History Channel, National Geographic Channel, and American Heroes Channel. In a story that is shocking, eye-opening, and a powerful force for change, Herman explores the sexism faced by powerful women across the globe, including Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn, Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and more.Įleanor Herman is the bestselling author of Sex with Presidents, The Royal Art of Poison, Sex with Kings, Sex with the Queen, and other works of popular history. ![]() elections, the “Misogynist’s Handbook,” as Eleanor Herman calls it, has been wielded to put “uppity” women in their place. From the ancient world, through the European Renaissance, up to the most recent U.S. There is a particular kind of rage usually reserved for women, especially women in power or vying for it. Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power ![]() ![]() ![]() In April 2023, it was announced that Beach Read is being adapted into a feature film for 20th Century Studios. Kirkus Reviews called Beach Read a "heartfelt look at taking second chances, in life and in love." A Publishers Weekly review said "Readers are sure to fall hard for this meta, heartfelt take on the romance genre." ![]() The novel was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance, coming in second place. PopSugar named it the Best Romance Book of 2020. It was listed in the Indie Next List for June 2020 and chosen as one of The Oprah Magazine’s 38 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020. They reconnect and bond over struggling with writer’s block they challenge each other to spend the summer writing a novel in each other’s genres.īeach Read was a New York Times Bestseller. While living in his old beach house to prepare to sell it, she runs into Augustus Everett, her former rival in college and now an acclaimed literary fiction author. January Andrews is a successful romance novel writer who is struggling after the death of her father and the discovery that he was having an affair. ![]() An audiobook was released by Penguin Random House Audio. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver is such an impactful read about coming to terms with grief. Beach Read is a 2020 contemporary romance novel by Emily Henry. Hope you enjoyed book club questions for Beach Read Here are some more recommendations along with links to book club questions. ![]() ![]() The Outlaw Love books are stand alone romance novels featuring unique lovers and happy endings. Don't care how much I suffer 'til she learns that's law. I'll own her on my bike, in my bed, wreck her for any other man, or I'll be dead. I can't forget the kiss that turned me into an obsessed lunatic. The good girl act won't save her this time. I'm putting her where she belongs the second I hear "kiss the bride." Yeah, I told my brothers I'd go along with this sham marriage to save the Grizzlies MC. So, why the hell can't I keep my lips off his when he gives me that smirk and whispers filthy things in my ear? ASPHALT She thinks it's pretend, and club business is the only reason I'm slapping my brand on her skin. All the insanity I tried to escape when I stopped being the sheltered club princess. Especially when he's the boy I left behind. ![]() When he tells me I'm going to say I do, and mean it, I want to believe him. ![]() ![]() So handsome and wild I should slap him for being this beautiful while he does every sin in the book. Did I say he's an outlaw? Asphalt has slayed more men on the road and taken more women between the sheets than I can ever count. I'm marrying a man who took a bullet for me tomorrow, and I don't have a choice. ![]() ELLE JO Forget the flowers and tender kisses. I'M MARRYING AN OUTLAW AND I CAN'T FAKE IT. ![]() |