![]() But she undermines those sentiments with banal details, like the color of a kitchen table, while skimping on details about her characters’ inner lives. Loigman’s debut novel is concerned with robust sentiments: hope, betrayal, yearning, disappointment. Afterward, of course, nothing is the same. ![]() That night, they make a decision that alters the course of their families’ lives. One winter night when their husbands are away and a blizzard has shut down New York, they both go into labor. Then Rose and Helen get pregnant at the same time. On the other hand, Helen, who is married to the more gregarious Abe, has had four sons but longs for a daughter: she’s lonely in her all-male household. Mort’s wife, Rose, bears three daughters, but Mort is desperate for a son and treats Rose cruelly in the meantime. ![]() The families share work (Mort and Abe run their father’s company together), play, and many meals. Abe’s family lives upstairs, and Mort’s lives downstairs. ![]() Mort and Abe are brothers, and when they buy a Brooklyn brownstone together, their wives become fast friends. A debut novel explores the intertwining lives of two Brooklyn families. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. And Kamen suggests something else.Įdgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. ![]() Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. Ī terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. ![]() A HORIZON LINE, MAYBE, BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH. NO MORE THAN A DARK PENCIL LINE ON A BLANK PAGE. ![]() ![]() When a threat to his existence rears its head, Cal decides that he will do anything to stay alive and become stronger. With help from a friend, Cal learned how to create monsters and traps, increasing his power and size quickly. After several lonely years, Cal was able to regain sentience, allowing him to form new memories while slowly growing a dungeon around himself. He is a Dungeon Heart, a soul forced against his will into a magical stone. Several questions have always plagued the minds of those who enter these mythical places of power: why are there so many monsters? Where do the amazing weaponry and heavy gold coins come from? Why does the very air fill with life-giving energies?Ĭal has all of the answers to these age-old questions, for a very simple reason. Although not everything is as straightforward as it seems. “For eons, conquering dungeons has been the most efficient way to become a strong adventurer. Stand Alone or Series: 1st book in the Divine Dungeon series Length: 12 hours and 32 minutes (338 pages) ![]() ![]() When Jamie’s older brother, Conrad, also known as "Con", is injured in a skiing accident, leaving him unable to speak and causing distress in the family due the costs of treatment, Jacobs asks Jamie to bring him over as he may be able to help him. Jacobs runs weekly Ministry Youth Fellowship sessions for the town’s children where he shares his interest in electricity and inventions with them, his wife plays music for them and they play with his young son Morrie (although Jamie is clearly favored over all the other children by Jacobs). Almost everyone in the tiny Maine hamlet comes to love Jacobs, his beautiful wife, and his young son. ![]() When Charles Jacobs, a new Methodist minister, comes to town, young Jamie Morton is excited. In an interview with Rolling Stone, King stated that Revival was inspired by Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and, like several of King's preceding novels, he has had the idea for this novel since childhood. An excerpt was included at the end of the paperback edition of King's Doctor Sleep, published on J( ISBN 978-1451698855). The novel was officially announced on February 12, 2014. ![]() ![]() During the chat King stated that he was halfway through writing his next novel, Revival. ![]() The novel was first mentioned by King on June 20, 2013, while doing a video chat with fans as part of promoting the then-upcoming Under the Dome TV series. Revival is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published on Novemby Scribner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Caleb was the kid whose father couldn’t stand the thought of having a gay son, so he sent Caleb away to military school to rid himself of the daily reminder of his son’s perceived shortcomings. It’s about having everything to gain and nothing to lose and stripping away all the boundaries you’ve built around yourself and embracing the one from your past who will, from this day forward, be your future.Ĭaleb Black left Owen McKenzie when they were both just eighteen-years-old, but not by his own choice. It’s about the one that got away it’s about second chances and the fact that it’s better to be fifteen years late reconnecting with your first love than never to have reconnected with him at all. Well, better late than never, as the saying goes, which is pretty much what this lovely little Christmas romance is all about. ![]() Or maybe, in this case, I’m a little late, seeing as how this book came out in December of 2010. I know it’s a little early to be pushing holiday books. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!’” – Dr. ![]() ![]() “‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, ‘doesn’t come from a store. ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Ĭhristmas Revels enthält 5 Kurzgeschichten in leicht verständlichem english. ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() She had fallen in love with an air force pilot in 1960, but the officer went to Taiwan. Gugu, born in 1937, is the first modern midwife in Tadpole's town. Steven Moore of The Washington Post wrote that since the novel includes scenes of anguish, Frog "is no polemic supporting the necessary if heartless one-child policy." Plot Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the conflicts between the government abortion planners, who believe that they are doing the right thing, and the prospective parents makes Frog a "startlingly dramatic book". In Mandarin Chinese the word for frog, 蛙 ( wā), sounds similar to the sound made by a baby (娃 wā), and the narrator's name means " tadpole". He served as Mo Yan's longtime English translator. It was translated into English by Howard Goldblatt (Chinese: 葛浩文), foremost translator of contemporary Chinese literature and former research professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame. The novel discusses both the reasons why the policy was implemented and the consequences of it. ![]() Gugu performs various abortions after the One Child Policy is introduced. The novel is about Gugu (姑姑 "paternal aunt"), the aunt of "Tadpole", the novel's narrator. ![]() Frog ( Chinese: 蛙 pinyin: Wā) is a novel by Mo Yan, first released in 2009. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much to her sensible mother's dismay, Macy impulsively takes a job at a disorganized catering company, working for very pregnant Delia, a woman who thrives on chaos. He was just what I needed.") When Jason goes off to "Brain Camp" for the summer and announces (via e-mail) that he wants to put their relationship on hold, Macy must find happiness and reassurance on her own. "A lot of people might find this annoying, even loathsome. ("Anything he did, he did well," Macy explains. While recovering from her father's sudden death, Macy clings to things that are safe and predictable, notably her brilliant, oh-so-steady boyfriend Jason. ) gracefully balances comedy with tragedy and introduces a complex heroine worth getting to know. ![]() ![]() In this contemporary romance, Dessen ( This Lullaby ![]() ![]() But rehearsal leads to kissing, and kissing leads to a behind-the-scenes romance worthy of a soap opera. With their careers on the line, Jasmine and Ashton agree to rehearse in private. ![]() Leading Ladies do not rebound with their new costars. Easier said than done, especially when a disastrous first impression smothers the embers of whatever sexual heat they might have had. To make it work, he’ll need to generate smoking-hot on-screen chemistry with Jasmine. Joining this new cast as a last-minute addition will give him the chance to show off his acting chops to American audiences and ping the radar of Hollywood casting agents. ![]() Leading Ladies don’t need a man to be happy.Īfter his last telenovela character was killed off, Ashton is worried his career is dead as well. ![]() When she returns to her hometown of New York City to film the starring role in a bilingual romantic comedy for the number one streaming service in the country, Jasmine figures her new “Leading Lady Plan” should be easy enough to follow-until a casting shake-up pairs her with telenovela hunk Ashton Suárez. Leading Ladies do not end up on tabloid covers.Īfter a messy public breakup, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face splashed across the tabloids. ![]() Steam: Explicit/Descriptive/Multiple ReferencesĪvailable: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | BookShop You Had Me At Hola By Alexis Daria Rating: 5/5 ![]() ![]() As she begins to find a calmer safe place to be alone in nature, the colors change in the story with her mood to a cool, blue and green tone. For example, when she is going through the state of frustration the pages are bursting with colors of red, orange and yellow. Not only do the pictures illustrate her feelings through facial expressions and body language, but the colors follow a pattern of emotions. Which, as we know from working with preschoolers, is just enough to keep their attention? The rest of the book is filled with my second favorite thing, bright vibrant detailed pictures. The first is that it is a short read only 31 pages with about with an average of 10 words per page. There are three things that I love most about this book. ![]() As you can imagine, Sophie gets angry, really, really angry. To make matters worse, she falls over a toy truck as the gorilla is snatched from her grasp. In the story, Sophie is playing with her gorilla when her sister takes it right out of her hands and says "my turn." Sophie's mother orders Sophie to let her sister have a turn. ![]() Title: When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry.Ībout: A brightly illustrated book about dealing with frustration and anger.Īuthor Molly Bang takes us along on Sophie's journey as she deals with her feelings of anger and sadness. ![]() When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry. ![]() |