![]() A profound meditation on loss and belonging that doubles as a compelling psychological thriller, a Hollywood adaptation of The Goldfinch, starring Nicole Kidman and Ansel Elgort, will be appearing in UK cinemas later in the year. And this is even less true than in the cases of some other unsummarizable books we’ve shared with you. At 800 pages, it touches upon so many subjects that no summary of its story will ever do the book any justice. ![]() ![]() It is a journey that will combine love and heartache with police tape and shoot-outs, and confirms its author’s place as one of the great contemporary American novelists. The Goldfinch is a coming-of-age tale told in retrospective first-person narration by its main protagonist, Theodore Decker. ![]() This chapter begins with the narrator’s reflections on his relationship between him and his two parents. And thus begins Theo Decker’s descent into crime… Moving seamlessly from the frantic whirl of New York to the twitchy desert heat of Las Vegas, and from the archaic plunder of a downtown antiques store to the bohemian drawing rooms of high society Manhattan, Donna Tartt’s dazzling third novel tracks Theo’s precarious journey through 21st century America. In the first chapter, Theo is reflecting on the time he spends in Amsterdam where he was hiding from authorities. Retrieved by Theo in the aftermath of the blast, somehow he never finds the courage to return it to its rightful owners. ![]() You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.’ For the young Theo Decker, left shiftless and alone after the horrific death of his mother in an explosion at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, that life-defining picture is Carel Fabritius’ The Goldfinch. ‘You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. ![]()
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![]() But Spencer is about to be introduced to the most mysterious inner sanctum of the inner sanctum: to his surprise, he's in the running to be "punched" for one of Harvard's elite final clubs. The friends he's made when he hits the storied ivy-clad campus from a very different life in urban Chicago are a happy bonus. Ian Smith's novel is unmissable." -Harlan Coben, author of Missing You Spencer Collins thinks his life at Harvard will be all about basketball and pre-med hard workouts and grinding work in class. ""Pulls you into the depths of a secret world from the first page. A graduate of Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, Smith is the author of one previous novel, The Blackbird Papers.". ![]() is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Blast the Sugar Out, SHRED, SUPER SHRED, The SHRED Power Cleanse and twelve other top-selling titles. ![]() ![]() The Self-Compassion Workbook – Joy Johnson My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver – Martin J. Multicultural Guide to Caregiving: Essential resources to help you balance traditions without losing your mind or money – Angelica Herrera Venson Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss – Margaret Renkl Living with Dying - Jahnna Beecham and Katie Ortlip The Conscious Caregiver: A Mindful Approach to Caring for Your Loved One Without Losing Yourself – Linda Abbit The Color of Care: A Beginner’s Guide for the African American Caregiver – Ky’a Jackson ![]() ![]() The Caregiver’s Challenge: Living, Loving, Letting Go – Maryann Schacht ![]() The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love – Sonya Renee TaylorĬan’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? – Roz Chast Caring for the caregiver and/or self-careĪ Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents and Ourselves – Jane Grossīe the Noodle: Fifty ways to be a compassionate, courageous, crazy-good caregiver – Lois Kelly ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nelson, through in-depth research and a storyteller's voice, brilliantly recounts the story of these magnificent ships, the men who built and fought them, and the extraordinary battle that made them legend." - from the dustjacket.Remainder mark to bottom edge, else very good in unclipped dustjacket. In this absorbing history, novelist, historian, and tall-ship sailor James L. Reign of Iron : The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack. Dahlgren called it, 'the reign of iron'. In one afternoon, in a battle that lasted four hours, they ended the three-thousand-year traditionof wooden men-of-war and ushered in, as Admiral John A. "The first ironclad ships to fight each other, the Monitor and the Virginia (Merrimack), were the unique products of American design genius and ingenuity, North and South. 8vo, maroon cloth spine withtan paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. ![]() (New York) : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, (2004). Reign of Iron : The Story of the First Battling Ironclads,the Monitor and the Merrimack. ![]() ![]() ![]() Long a passionate Civil War buff, Linda has studied the era avidly for almost thirty years. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, mysteries and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. ![]() Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing. ![]() ![]() Raised in Northport, Washington, Linda pursued her wanderlust, living in London and Arizona and traveling the world before returning to the state of her birth to settle down on a spacious property outside Spokane. The daughter of a town marshal, Linda Lael Miller is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than 100 historical and contemporary novels, most of which reflect her love of the West. ![]() ![]() And much to my total despair, also right. Right after inserting his nose in my business, calling me delusional, and calling himself my best option. The man whose main occupation was making my blood boil had just offered himself to be my date. ![]() But that didn't mean I was desperate enough to bring the 6'4 blue eyed pain in my ass standing before me.Īaron Blackford. Let alone, someone eager to play along my charade. ![]() Or the epitaph on my tombstone, seeing the turn my life had taken in the span of a phone call.įour weeks wasn't a lot of time to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic-from NYC and all the way to Spain-for a wedding. That would certainly be tomorrow's headline in the local newspaper of the small Spanish town I came from. Everyone is invited to come and witness the most magical event of the year. Her family is happy to announce that she will bring her American boyfriend to her sister's wedding. ![]() Or in other words, a plan that will never work.Ĭatalina Martín, finally, not single. ![]() ![]() How can she have a relationship with her sister based on lies and secrets? A crisis will force her mother to be the adult she needs to be and allow Hope and Grace the chance to be children together. They become friends, but Hope doesn’t know how to tell Grace the truth. There she finally meets Grace, who is all the things Hope wishes she could be. Hope’s hunt for her sister takes her and her mother to the tiny community of Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia. Hope believes that finding Grace is the only way she can help her mother deal with her guilt. On her eleventh birthday, Hope is shocked to learn that Grace is a real person-her twin sister, who contracted polio and was adopted when they were toddlers. Growing up in the 1950s with a single mother and a mysteriously absent father, the letters she writes to her imaginary friend, Grace, help her cope with the difficult times in her life: her mother’s depression, their money worries, struggles to make friends at school and her grandmother’s death. Ten-year-old Hope is a bit of a loner with a wonderful imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The narration has the feel of early newsreels where the broadcaster described unknown phenomena in clipped, clinical language: ``A strange force passed through the wet ants. In this work, the hazards of nonconformity are clear. When the ant troops return, the two bad ants gladly rejoin their friends and head for the safety of home. Further mishaps include a heated stay in the toaster, a hazardous swirl in the garbage disposal and a zap in an electrical outlet. Their slumbers end when a giant scoop drops them into a sea of boiling brown coffee. ![]() Two greedy ants stay behind in the sugar bowl, eating their fill and then falling asleep. Accustomed to the orderly and uneventful life in the ant hole, all the ants enter the bizarre world of a kitchen in the search for sugar crystals for the queen. In this new book by Van Allsburg, twice a winner of the Caldecott Medal, the theme of an outsider's point-of-view (touched upon most recently in his The Stranger ) is expanded. ![]() ![]() ![]() An acceptable book request includes at least one of the following: Low-effort book requests will be removed. 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I had a hard time deciding if the girl was a toddler or older and spent most of the story wondering why her parents didn't have the police and the neighbors out looking and an Amber Alert blaring across all the media. I also didn't like that Leaf Man got suckered into helping some lost little girl get home. Why are fairies so thoughtless? I kinda wish the author would right another book giving this fairy her come uppance. "One Fall day, a thoughtless fairy played in the leaves." I was irritated the fairy got bored with her new sentient being and flitted of to play with someone else (presumably Puck). This read like a golden book ,and I probably would have liked it better if it had been. (Ha! See what I did there) Leaf man only has the day to live and while pondering great things ends up helping some lost little girl get home. Some silly fairy (read dumb bitch with a wand and some wings) creates leaf man then leaves him hanging. ![]() |