6/12/2023 0 Comments Skinny by ibi![]() ![]() While the book does have the story of two sisters and of how one has an eating disorder, I thought that it talked about so many more topics that I would almost categorize it as a book about self exploration, not just an eating disorder. I picked it up expecting to read a story about two sisters and how they dealt with one of them having an eating disorder. I had a lot of trouble getting into this book. ![]() Gritty and often wryly funny, Skinny explores family relationships, love, pain and the hunger for acceptance that drives us all. This honest look at the special bond between sisters is told from both girls’ perspectives as they narrate alternating chapters. And, together, they are holding on for dear life. Once a strong role model and top medical student, Giselle is spiraling out of control. As a track star, Holly struggles to keep her own life in balance while coping with the mental and physical deterioration of her beloved sister. Haunted by her love-deprived relationship with her late father, Giselle is fighting an all-consuming battle with anorexia. ![]() Holly’s older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readersīody image & self perception issue: anorexia ![]()
0 Comments
6/12/2023 0 Comments The sheik by em hull![]() ![]() ![]() 'The Sheik' quickly sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide. 'The Sheik', her initial effort, was first published in England in 1919 and quickly became an international blockbuster, placing it among the top ten best sellers for both of the years 19 in the magazine 'Publishers Weekly'. She dabbled at writing fiction in the late 1910s while her husband was away serving in World War I. ![]() They had a daughter Cecil Winstanley Hull, who also wrote a book entitled 'Six Weeks in Algeria' (1930). 1869) in London and the couple moved to Derbyshire in the early 1900s. In 1899, she married Percy Winstanley Hull (b. Edith Maude Henderson was born on 16 August 1880 in the Borough of Hampstead, London, England, UK, the daughter of Katie Thorne, of New Brunswick, Canada, and James Henderson, a shipowner from Liverpool.Īs a child she travelled widely with her parents, even visiting Algeria, the setting of her novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants meets 13 Little Blue Envelopes in this new young adult novel about a tight-knit, daring, and eclectic group of friends who dedicate every summer to completing their #SummerSistersBucketList together – that is until one of their own passes away.Įvery year since they can remember, Daniella, her cousin Carly, and their friends Penny and Lainie (the #SummerSisters) have spent their summers together at the Jersey Shore in the town of Ocean Park Heights, creating and completing a summer bucket list. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Rising malibu![]() ![]() And no one will know how the fire started. ![]() As if that picture-perfect family isn’t enough, their father is Mick Riva, the legendary singer.īy morning, the Riva mansion will have burned to the ground. Everyone wants to be in the company of the famous Rivas: Nina, the surfer and model her brothers, Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other his renowned photographer and Kit, the adored baby of the family. Malibu is buzzing with anticipation for Nina Riva’s annual party. But over the course of one night, each of their lives will be changed forever in this propulsive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments True Crime Addict by James Renner![]() ![]() shares snippets of his own life while collecting bits of Murray's, almost balancing out the scales of information. is just plain fun to read."- The New York Times "Renner keeps digging until the toll of his obsession creeps into his personal life. William Phelps, New York Times bestselling author "Renner's walk on the dark side makes for a highly compelling read."-Kathryn Casey, bestselling author of Deliver Us "Renner's personal involvement in the case-and his self-destructive, relentless dedication to confronting the darkness at the heart of it noteworthy."- Publishers Weekly, "Renner. Renner brilliantly covers all the bases here."-M. ![]() An entrancing, brilliant next step for fans of the podcast Serial, Netflix's Making a Murderer, and other true crime cases."- Library Journal (starred review) "Brutally honest, no-holds-barred storytelling. ![]() chipping away at the facts of a ten-year-old case makes the reader hope that, in the end, the answers will be uncovered. Renner is a tantalizing and almost gleeful tour guide to and through the impulses of the armchair detective."- Minneapolis Star Tribune "As the title suggests, is an addictive read."- Bustle "The mystery of Murray's whereabouts is baffling. " is just plain fun to read."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "You have not read a book like this before and, I'd wager, you'll not engage with its like again. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson![]() Richard Ferrone narrates this sweeping epic with engaging personality and finesse. Blue Mars is a complex and completely enthralling saga-as convincing and lushly imagined a future as anyone has ever dreamed. Maybe desperate enough to wage interplanetary war for the chance to begin again. The people of Earth are getting desperate. A natural disaster threatens to drown the already far too polluted and overcrowded planet. Meanwhile, across the void of space, old, tired Earth spins on its decaying axis. But idyllic Mars is in a state of political upheaval, plagued by violent conflict between those who would keep the planet green and those who want to return it to a desert world. The once red and barren terrain of Mars is now green and rich with life-plant, animal, and human. ![]() ![]() Blue Mars is the final volume in Robinson's seminal science fiction trilogy which began with Red Mars and continues with Green Mars. ![]() Acclaimed visionary author Kim Stanley Robinson is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winner. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments I am david by anne holm![]() ![]() Hitler had created a series of concentration camps where Jewish people, gypsies, and those who were perceived to be against his regime were sent to work literally to death. The novel is set during World War II when Germany was governed by dictator Adolf Hitler. This novel enables children to see the historical setting that David finds himself on through his eyes which enables them to connect more personally with history. ![]() She wrote it because she felt that children had the capacity to love a book more passionately than an adult but were given an enormous quantity of harmless, frivolous entertainment and not nearly enough literature of value. Holm was a journalist before turning her hand to writing a book. ![]() I Am David is a children's novel written originally in Danish, the native tongue of its author Anne Holm. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems. Wrath claims to be on Emilia's side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women's murders on the island. ![]() Then, Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost - even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved secrated beyond belief. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. From the number one New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes a new blockbuster series.Ī quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself.Įmilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Paperclip operation book![]() ![]() 28, 2014 Among the trophies of the Second World War captured by Allied intelligence agents were Nazi. ![]() ![]() If such a claim sounds dubious, Jacobsen persuasively shows that it in fact happened and aptly frames the dilemma in terms of “Who would be hired, and who would be hanged?” Rife with hypocrisy, lies, and deceit, Jacobsen’s story explores a conveniently overlooked bit of history the significance of which continues to resonate in the national security issues of today. ‘Operation Paperclip,’ by Annie Jacobsen - The New York Times Willkommen By Wendy Lower Feb. Needless to say, what to do with potentially useful war criminals posed an unusual predicament. Booktopia has Operation Paperclip, The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen. In fact, even an appearance at Nuremburg didn’t rule out a trip to the States. government to help prepare for an ostensibly impending “total war” with the Soviets. For just as some Nazis awaited trial at Nuremburg, others-namely prominent, potentially useful scientists-were secretly smuggled into the country by the U.S. ![]() Though Americans are quick to remember the United States’ heroic feats in WWII, they tend to be more amnesic (or allergic) toward some of our nation’s shadier activities in the effort-one of which seems to have been forgotten altogether. As comprehensive as it is critical, this latest exposé from Jacobsen (Area 51) is perhaps her most important work to date. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Writing blue highways![]() ![]() Far from being a technical manual, Writing Blue Highways: The Story of How a Book Happened is an adventure story of its own, a journey of “exploration into the myriad routes of heart and mind that led to the making of a book from the first sorry and now vanished paragraph to the last words that came not from a graphite pencil but from a letterpress in Tennessee.” ![]() Along the way, he traces the hard lessons learned and offers guidance to aspiring and experienced writers alike. More than thirty years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four years he spent capturing the lessons of the road trip on paper - the stops and starts in his composition process, the numerous drafts and painstaking revisions, the depressing string of rejections by publishers, the strains on his personal relationships, and many other aspects of the toil that went into writing his first book. The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. ![]() |