![]() ![]() When Alexi’s parents invite Bodee to live with them, the pair become friends, with Alexi helping Bodee release his guilt over his mother’s death and Bodee encouraging Alexi to speak out about what happened to her. Her classmate Bodee’s Kool-Aid dyed hair and quiet demeanor already set him apart from peers, but after his father kills his mother, he becomes even more of an object of pity and curiosity. ![]() Alexi Littrell has two close friends, dates football players, and has a family that her older sister’s fiancé describes as “the best family in the world.” But she is carrying a secret about something that happened to her over the summer and is self-harming to mute the pain. ![]() Somewhere between Sarah Dessen and Laurie Halse Anderson lies Stevens’s rich debut about two adolescents grappling with extraordinary trauma. ![]()
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Summerhill School is an independent British boarding school that was founded in 1921 by Alexander Sutherland Neill with the belief that the school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. Quinn and Graham's perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. About the Book A damaged couple in a troubled marriage grapple with the memories and mistakes they've made and secrets they've kept as they try to repair their love.īook Synopsis INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us-whose writing is "emotionally wrenching and utterly original" (Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)-delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. ![]() ![]() Now John must make the hardest decision of his life. Years later, when John returns to North Carolina, he must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still the only one for him. ![]() ![]() ' the letter reads, and both their lives are changed for ever. Dear John showcased many aspects of communications in its most simple forms. The movie directed by Lasse Hallstrom, adapted from Nicolas Sparks’ novel of the same name. And, sadly, as so often happens when lovers are young and separations are long, Savannah falls in love with someone else. Dear John, the drama-filled romance movie, John Tyree, a young soldier, meets Savannah Curtis, a college student on spring break, and they quickly fall in love. What neither realises is that 9/11 will change everything, prompting John to re-enlist and fulfil what he feels is his duty to his country and fellow soldiers. The attraction is mutual and quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah vowing to wait for John while he finishes his tour of duty. Always the angry rebel, he had dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life. Read Dear John book reviews and buy it in very good condition with free. ![]() When John met Savannah, he knew he was ready to turn over a new leaf. Buy Dear John Book by Nicholas Sparks Online At Low Price on Old Book Depot. ![]() From America's most beloved storyteller comes an unforgettable tale of a man who, in the name of love, must make the most difficult and heartrending decision of his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lawrence Hill’s non-fiction book, Blood: The Stuff of Life was published in September 2013 by House of Anansi Press. But it was his third novel, The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins Canada, 2007) - published in some countries as Someone Knows My Name and in French as Aminata - that attracted widespread attention in Canada and other countries. ![]() ![]() His first two novels were Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood, and his first non-fiction work to attract national attention was the memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. In 2005, he won his first literary honour: a National Magazine Award for the article “Is Africa’s Pain Black America’s Burden?” published in The Walrus. Hill is the author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction. ![]() ![]() Bellis Coldwine is fleeing New Crobuzon for a distant colony. The Scar takes us far from the teeming streets and slums of New Crobuzon, out into the rolling waves of the Swollen Ocean to the city's east. There can now be no doubt that there's no one in contemporary fantasy writing quite like him, and we should all be delighted that a talent like his has come along at the turn of the century to inject life into a genre stuck for so long in a creative cul-de-sac. It stands alone as a story and can serve as an introduction to Miéville's extraordinary worldbuilding. ![]() The Scar, which takes a much more direct approach to structuring its plot than Perdido, is related to but not a sequel to that book. ![]() ![]() In The Scar, Miéville proves the hype right by fulfilling that promise. Tweets by was clear when reading China Miéville's mesmerizing Perdido Street Station that its setting, the dreamlike metropolis New Crobuzon and the world of Bas-Lag, possessed a nearly inexhaustible potential for future stories. ![]() Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. All reviews and site design © by Thomas M. ![]() |