![]() ![]() I think this is a powerful and moving book because you feel like you are right there with Michael feeling how hard life is for him. The mysterious creature who he has learnt to love and care for is going away, he is sure his baby sister is dead and on top of all that he has school friends and school work to worry about. When she goes into hospital to have a possible life or death operation on her heart Michael thinks his whole world has collapsed. ![]() Together they help the creature get stronger and stronger, but there is something constantly on Michael's mind. He doesn't want to tell anyone about this mysterious man except from the girl across the road called Mina. Michael has just moved into a new house and has a huge surprise when he finds a crippled living being in his new but crumbling 'garage'. In this book the main character is a boy called Michael. ![]()
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![]() ![]() According to a survey conducted this summer by Thriftbooks, 2,000 Americans were polled on what motivates them to read more books during the summer. This week is Banned Books Week in the United States, a celebration of books that have been banned or challenged by people or groups. ![]() What makes Steven guilty? Does his participation make him a monster? A robbery attempt went wrong and the store’s owner was killed. Steven Harmon was only in his twenties when he was one of four people who robbed a drugstore. ![]() This is a thoughtful and emotional novel about a teenager who is accused of a crime. ![]() It can be useful to young adults and those who are older than 24. There are pages that turn, and some of them are tounge twisters. As a result, the main character was extremely scared, and he helped me realize that family is the best thing in the world. It was difficult for me to read the book. This is an excellent tool for students who want to do well in class. You can’t help but think about the book after each page has ended. This book is a good choice for both middle and high school students. The author’s approach to drawing me into the character’s mind was intriguing. It is a novel about a teenage boy who is on trial for murder. The book “Monster” was published in 2009. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book follows Firoozeh and her extended family (most of whom end up moving to America), as she deals with things such as trying to earn money, marrying a non-Iranian man, and the anti-Iranian sentiments many Americans share during and after the Iranian Hostage Crisis.Ĭhapter 1 "Leffingwell Elementary School"Ĭhapter 1 opens with Firoozeh introducing herself and her family and their reason for moving to Whittier, California. ![]() Unfortunately, it isn’t and Firoozeh is tasked with adjusting to American culture herself, leading to many humorous, and awkward, encounters. ![]() ![]() Her father, Kazem, studied in America at a graduate school in Texas, and truly believed that it was the country for him, and his English would be enough to get him and his family by. When she was seven, her parents, Kazem and Nazireh, and her brothers and she all moved to Whittier, California in search of a better life. Funny In Farsi is the story of Firoozeh, a little girl who moved from Iran to America, as told through her eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Married in 1969 to Cornelius (Iwan) Dirk de Bruin, a Dutch political activist, Dworkin lived in Amsterdam before fleeing her abusive husband in 1971, and publishing Woman Hating (1974), and Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics (1976). She later made headlines, publicizing her brutal treatment at the hands of staff, which led to a grand jury investigation of the prison. A 1968 graduate of Bennington College, Dworkin was arrested in 1965 in New York City for protesting against the Vietnam war, and spent four days in the Women's House of Detention. Author, critic, lesbian, and radical feminist, Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005) was born in Camden, New Jersey, the daughter of Sylvia (Spiegel) and Harry Dworkin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Max, Fang and Nudge set out to rescue Angel while Iggy and the Gasman stay behind. The youngest member, Angel, is abducted by wolf-human hybrid "Erasers" and taken back to "The School", the lab where the Flock was created and raised in cages. They live in hiding in a house in the woods after being freed by one of the scientists, Jeb Batchelder, now presumed deceased. The Flock, led by Maximum "Max" Ride, are a group of kids genetically altered to have wings. The story follows the Flock, a group of human- avian hybrids (98% human, 2% bird) on the run from the scientists who created them. The book was released in the US on April 11, 2005, and in the UK on July 4, 2005. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment is the first book in the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. ![]() ![]() ![]() Morningside Heights is a sweeping and compassionate novel about a marriage surviving hardship. Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father's last, best hope. Meanwhile, Spence's estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. One day, feeling especially isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own to care for him. ![]() The Great Man can't concentrate he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. ![]() Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. But when she falls in love with and marries Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn't have anticipated. When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. ![]() ![]() Oliva Dionne fought a nine-year battle to regain custody of his children. ![]() Dionne, a dirt-poor farmer before the birth of the quints, died in 1979.Īs the first quintuplets on record to survive more than a few days, the infant girls were taken from their parents and made wards of the Ontario government, which turned them into what the Canadian Encyclopedia calls a "$500 million asset to the province." Three million people trekked to "Quintland" in North Bay in northern Ontario to watch the babies at play behind a one-way screen. ![]() The five girls were born May 28, 1934, in Corbeil, Ontario, near the Quebec border, to Elzire Dionne and her husband, Oliva. Jean-Yves Soucy, a Montreal writer who was co-author with the three sisters, said, "This is a story not just of sexual abuse, but harassment and physical and verbal power abuse." "These women are completely destroyed psychologically," she said. The interviewer, Denise Bombardier, said she found the revelations "apocalyptic." ![]() ![]() However, We Own This City flips the script, turning legitimate businesspeople into criminals due to wanton greed and a lust for power. ![]() We Own This City is more of a spiritual successor to The Wire than a direct sequel, sharing similar themes and tone with its predecessor while telling a true story with a cast of characters based on real people. ![]() Related: Every The Wire Actor Who Returned For We Own This City The story was adapted for HBO by David Simon and frequent collaborator George Pelecanos and stars The Punisher's Jon Bernthal as the notorious Wayne Jenkins. Much like The Wire, We Own This City explores the impact that one person’s choices can have on their surroundings, this time scrutinizing the real-life actions of the Baltimore Police and its now-defunct Gun Trace Task Force. We Own This City is based on the 2021 nonfiction book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The band produced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy lives on. Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard of.Įmerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent lives and times. The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And when he’s recruited to one of the biggest up and coming clubs in London, he’s certain to make his name known. His head is so big, it barely fits under his backwards hat. Zander Williams is the hot new American determined to take European football by storm. The cocky footballer next door has some serious game…luckily, Daphney Clarke knows how to play. ![]() ![]() In fact, he’s the leading role in her fantasies.įantasies, he would very much like to make a reality. Now Max is stuck with this bizarre woman who hates everything he represents-corporate greed, money, status, power.īut one stormy night when the power goes out, he discovers Cozy doesn’t hate him. One problem: Max’s little girl thinks this plus-sized in body and spirit nanny might be her new bestie, so she hires her on the spot. Only a bad nanny knows what it’s like to kiss the boss.ĬEO millionaire, Max Fletcher is a single dad in desperate need of a nanny.Ĭozy Barlow is in the middle of her self-appointed “gap year” and doing everything she can to detach from her past.īut when her sister begs her to interview for the nanny position of a high maintenance client, she doesn’t have a good enough reason to say no.Īnd when Max locks eyes on the twenty-something in a tie-dye sweatsuit who pitches the idea of daydreaming all summer-he prepares to give this bad nanny the boot. ![]() |