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La famille Fang

Autore: Kevin Wilson

Numero di pagine: 266

M. et Mme Fang appellent ça de l'art, leurs enfants appellent ça de l'inconséquence. M. et Mme Fang appellent ça de l'art, leurs enfants appellent ça de l'inconséquence. Entraînés malgré eux dans les performances et autres happenings de Caleb et Camille Fang, leurs parents, dont l'ambition est de faire de leur propre vie une œuvre d'art, Annie – surnommée " Enfant A " – et Buster – " Enfant B " –, n'ont jamais connu les joies de la normalité. Arrivés à l'âge adulte, ils comprennent que le chaos dans lequel ils ont grandi les a rendus pour le moins inadaptés à la société et au monde réel. Tandis qu'ils essaient tant bien que mal de réaliser leurs projets personnels et de trouver une forme d'équilibre, ils sont, une fois, de plus happés par la folie créatrice des deux artistes, qui, pour couronner leur carrière, ont imaginé une mise en scène dépassant de loin toutes les précédentes. Dans cette comédie tour à tour grinçante et émouvante, Kevin Wilson brosse un tableau au vitriol du milieu de l'art doublé d'une réflexion amère sur les effets qu'ont les ambitions démesurées des parents sur leurs enfants. " Intelligent, original et...

Le Patriarche

Autore: Witi Ihimaera

Numero di pagine: 452

Dans cette grande saga maorie au rythme endiablé, le jeune Simeon se rebelle à ses risques et périls contre l’autoritarisme forcené du patriarche de sa famille élargie. Il nous entraîne dans sa découverte du monde — amour, injustice, compétition, religion et hypocrisie, secrets, liberté — avec un humour décapant qui rend ses combats sur tous les fronts d’autant plus poignants.Dialogues truculents, scènes inoubliables, Witi Ihimaera dépeint avec brio la rivalité shakespearienne entre deux clans maoris et n’oublie aucun ingrédient pour nous convier dans une Nouvelle-Zélande picaresque qui ne pouvait que donner lieu à un film, Mahana, réalisé par Lee Tamahori en 2016.Lauréat du Montana Book Awards.« Un classique néo-zélandais... [...] mais un classique désopilant, à l’énergie formidable, un livre fougueux, irrévérencieux avec des passages hilarants. [...] Une expérience de lecture inoubliable. » Louise O’Brien, Radio New Zealand Versatile et prolifique, Witi Ihimaera est le premier romancier maori à être édité. Depuis lors, il a publié douze romans, six recueils de nouvelles, écrit pour le théâtre et pour le cinéma, coproduit des...

Come to The Peak

Autore: Shi Yueliunian

Numero di pagine: 693

A man with a huge sword on his back, a monkey fighting in the wilderness, and a sparrow with wings covering the sky. So what if he became a demon! So what if he became a Buddha! If I walk my path, why should I fear that the world will judge my skill or my past...He stepped on the Dragon Sparrow Soaring Through Nine Heavens and held the huge sword in his hand as he battled with the Six Paths. Chong Yin was furious because of his beauty. He waved his sword and stained the entire street with his blood. It was normal to call upon the wind and summon the rain. This! This is the life that I, Luo Yu, want. The peak of Ascendant, this life that belongs to you ...

He's Here

Autore: Swetha Kannan

Numero di pagine: 254

Set in the mid 90s in a peaceful city, the story is about a teen girl, Ashley who has created a world of chaos for herself. A devastating event from childhood, rather events, both known and unknown shatters her life leaving unrestorable pieces of herself. After an emotional departure from her life, yet another string of unfortunate events begin to unfold. Just as everything seem to fall in place in life, Ashley gets drawn back to turmoil. The two most important people in her life were snatched from her. In her journey towards finding both, the closer she tries to get, the farther she moves away. Will she reach her destination? Or will it remain as a journey itself?

A Broken Wok

Autore: Bruce Allsman

Numero di pagine: 15

A Broken Wok, a Malaysian family drama by Bruce Allsman Freelance writer, Lim Siew Bee, a single mother with her eight-year-old son, Jason, lives next door to Madam Ong, an octogenarian living alone in single story link house. One morning, upon returning home from sending her son to school, Siew Bee hears a cry for help next door and she goes over to check. She finds the old lady, clad in a sarong lying on the floor just outside the bathroom, groaning in pain, unable to get up. The incident marks the beginning of her relationship with the octogenarian that lasts until the old lady's inevitable demise several weeks later. During the wake, Siew Bee learns the cause of the old lady's unfortunate circumstances and realizes that for this dysfunctional family, filial piety is dead in the age of consumerism.

Kura Toa

Autore: Tim Tipene

Numero di pagine: 93

Teenager Haki must confront family, friends, school and his fears to serve his people and grow into a warrior

I want to go to Jiuzhou

Autore: Michael Lincolnhol

Numero di pagine: 359

In autumn, the weather under U Do mountain is getting colder and colder, Dai U palace near the top of the mountain is about to be as cold as winter. In such weather, having to climb Han Ngoc cave at the top of the mountain every day to release blood is not for humans! That fox is more ruthless than a bloodsucker. Although I have been ejecting a lot less these days, the hematopoietic function still cannot keep up with the discharge rate. Dizziness is no longer a strange thing to me, early this morning I woke up and passed out. But fortunately did not miss much time. I pushed up the "brass-jumping" mask, patted my chest panting and said, "Oh this damned body". Resting for a while, wrapping my robe tightly, I continued to climb to the top of the mountain. In fact, at first, Thuong Tieu asked for the wrong person to take me up, but I refused very emphatically. I didn't want to admit that I did it just in exchange for his pain. Because I understand, the only person who can make him heartbroken is the beautiful woman who has slept for four hundred years in the Han Ngoc cave - Tu Dan - only.

Stephen Chbosky

Autore: Philip Wolny

Numero di pagine: 112

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the best-selling book written by author Stephen Chbosky (published in 1999), which was followed by his screenplay (the popular movie for which was released in 2012), is to today’s young adults what J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye was to teens of decades past. In poignant, knowing language and characterization, Chbosky captures the joys, anguish, confusion, and once-in-a-lifetime experience that is adolescence. Find out about the book, the movie, and the engaging author in this singular account about how one man wrote a story that has become an emotional touchstone for a generation.

Pangu Descendant Warrior

Autore: Xie Zhishangaizhihen

Q city's summer was not as hot as other cities. As a seaside city, it had the characteristics that a seaside city should have. Although the weather was hot, the sea breeze still gave people a chill, except for those hot-blooded teenagers in high school ... The third high school is a comprehensive strong school in the city of Q, not the comprehensive teaching, but the comprehensive students. There were all kinds of students here, be they poor or rich, good or bad, all of them would appear in this school. Some of the students' parents had countless amounts of money, while some of the parents were just ordinary workers. Some students were generous, kind and empathetic, while others were ruthless and sinister. The reason for this is that No. 3 High School is a special school. In high school, the teaching level and promotion rate of No. 3 High School are in the whole world.

The Merit Birds

Autore: Kelley Powell

Numero di pagine: 240

2015 Dewey Divas Pick 2016 Booklist Top Ten Multicultural Fiction List, Youth Spotlight Cam is finally settling into his new life in Laos when tragedy strikes and he’s wrongfully accused of murder. Eighteen-year-old Cam Scott is angry. He’s angry about his absent dad, he’s angry about being angry, and he’s angry that he has had to give up his Ottawa basketball team to follow his mom to her new job in Vientiane, Laos. However, Cam’s anger begins to melt under the Southeast Asian sun as he finds friendship with his neighbour, Somchai, and gradually falls in love with Nok, who teaches him about building merit, or karma, by doing good deeds, such as purchasing caged “merit birds.” Tragedy strikes and Cam finds himself falsely accused of a crime. His freedom depends on a person he’s never met. A person who knows that the only way to restore his merit is to confess. The Merit Birds blends action, suspense, and humour in a far-off land where things seem so different, yet deep down are so much the same.

Legacy

Autore: Whiti Hereaka

Numero di pagine: 268

Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about school and the future, but mostly about his girlfriend, Gemma, who has suddenly stopped seeing or texting him. But on his way to see her, he’s hit by a bus and his life radically changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, and finds he’s living through his great-great-grandfather’s experiences in the Māori Contingent. At the same time that Riki tries to make sense of what’s happening and find a way home, we go back in time and read transcripts of interviews Riki’s great-great-grandfather gave in 1975 about his experiences in this war and its impact on their family. Gradually we realise the fates of Riki and his great-great-grandfather are intertwined.

It's Not Easy to Be a Man After Travelling to the Future 1 Anthology

Autore: Madam Ru

Numero di pagine: 1091

After dying from a strange terminal illness, Ling Lan was reborn into a world 10000 years into the future. Although she dearly wished she could just live a peaceful and uneventful life in her new healthy body, fate had other plans ... Forced to disguise herself as a boy just so she could inherit her deceased father's premium military benefits, Ling Lan's journey to adulthood was full of challenges. After much difficulty, she finally turned sixteen when she could drop the charade. But before she could grasp her newfound freedom to get married and start her own family, a twist of fate results in her being thrown into the Federation's top military boys' school. With these twists of fate, Ling Lan had little choice but to walk further and further down a path of no return, one of cold and aloof dominance ...

Why?

Autore: Srilekhya Grandhi

Numero di pagine: 30

About the Author: This book deals with all the emotional struggles a teenager is facing, or a person has faced at any part of the life, which is still going, this is not to judge, or suggest but this is to convey how precious you are, how hard you have faced, and how strong you are standing. About the Book: My name is srilekhya, and I am 18 this is my first book, I believe in the sentence, it's not a matter of pages but its the depth about words. I don't even know what should I write in the author's biography, because I feel I am not that so experienced to write my biography, but as for formality, let me introduce myself to you. I am srilekhya as I mentioned earlier, generally, people call me sree, I love to explore, travel, write, and many more. I love everything that I do. I just want to present myself in a simple and casual manner. I hope you will enjoy. And please forgive my mistakes, feel free to mail me. srilekhyagrandhi@gmail.com

Island of Shattered Dreams

Autore: Chantel Spitz

Numero di pagine: 175

Finally in English, Island of Shattered Dreams is the first ever novel by an indigenous Tahitian writer. In a lyrical and immensely moving style, this book combines a family saga and a doomed love story, set against the background of French Polynesia in the period leading up to the first nuclear tests. The text is highly critical of the French government, and as a result its publication in Tahiti was polarising.

First Person Imperfect

Autore: Paul Mccomas

Numero di pagine: 204

To read these 19 stories is to become the confidant of 19 very different, very real people. Whether tagging along with one of the nine children who open their lives and hearts to you or accompanying one of the 10 adults struggling to let go or hang on or strike out in a new direction, you will find yourself quickly caught up in these characters' lives. If you crave deep connection with quirky, disarmingly genuine people, then you'll enjoy an in-person look at "First Person Imperfect."

Nighttime father. Life is a Story - story.one

Autore: Kaplan

Numero di pagine: 70

As the boy's world shifts between darkness and light, he faces an inner battle, confronting his deepest fears and desires. With the help of his awareness - a guiding force within him - the boy must untangle the threads of memory to find solace and understanding. Through vivid imagery and masterful storytelling, "Nighttime Father" explores the complexities of fatherhood, loss, love, and the human psyche. The novella weaves a mesmerizing tapestry of dreams and truths, ultimately leading to a revelation that surpasses the boundaries of life and death.

The Choice

Autore: Lost Lenny

Numero di pagine: 553

Leonard Nicholas was born in New York City in 1947 and went to public school on Long Island. After graduating high school, he attended Oswego State University in upstate New York and earned a teaching degree in Industrial Arts. The author is now retired from education and spends his time ( when not writing) with his family, riding his BMW motorcycle, or driving his 1931 Model A Ford.

Property of Fjm

Autore: Fjm

Numero di pagine: 258

This is a story that is not just about getting from one point in your life to another. It's about the Journey. It covers how emotions can be a vehicle of light in your life no matter the emotion. It can be Admiration, Greif, Love, Happiness, Embarrasment, Anger, and that Spark that a person can have inside. The Sky is the limit type of attitude. The contents of this book will offer a different approach to life. Some call it the easy way, some will be indifferent to this way of thinking, but if you are anything like this author you will find it fascinating and learn that you can have it all if you have that desire. Do you have that Fire Inside you?

Soup

Autore: Travis Haugen

Numero di pagine: 314

Scott Yonge exploded onto the national consciousness at the 2001 Garrett Awards and quickly rose to legendary status on the wings of his music and his whirlwind romance with independent film actress Michelle Zoe. What should have been a perfect life was interrupted by an ultra-right wing militant group called the American Freedom Force and its leader, Colonel Randall, who forces Scott to choose between his life and that of his son. After his heroic sacrifice, his family is left to pick up the pieces and forge ahead to a future in the vacuum he left behind. Now, in 2021, his son Hedley inherits music for himself, becoming a star in his own right as technology gives new life to the medium. Scott’s daughter, affectionately known as Soup, throws herself into unravelling the mysteries of her family’s history. Michelle commits herself to keeping them all together and trying to make sense of life without the one she loves. Through it all, the AFF looms in the shadows, threatening to resurrect the pain they have just begun to overcome. In the first of his new series, Travis Haugen explores the reaches of the near future through his love of music, technology, and the unbreakable bonds...

Thumbs

Autore: C. V. Schweitzer

Numero di pagine: 136

The author was born and raised on a farm south of Dodge City Kansas. As a child, he could frequently be found playing cowboys and Indians with Dennis Hopper in the Busleys Grocery Store parking lot on Saturdays. After traveling the world for 30 years as a member of the United States Air Force he is fi nally putting some of those experiences down on paper. His writings explore all corners of the human psyche, from the blackest of black to the whitest of white intertwined with a deep red adrenalin rush running through his characters. His passion against; injustice, stupidity and political correctness may be seen from time to time through his writings. If you like this book ,he is currently working on a children's story, "THE MAKING OF AN ANGEL", a puppy bought as a Christmas gift, then abandoned when the fun of having a dog wears off will be on the shelves by Christmas, and a novel, "SHADOW OF THE RAINBOW", born from the aftermath of the Viet Nam War early next year

Mirikata Magic

Autore: Bette Shiels

Numero di pagine: 278

Kaylene Scott is an innocent, but ambitious young woman who is cajoled by a budding entrepreneurial lover to become a partner in a project to convert a redundant Rocket-tracking Station in the Australian Outback, into a modern, Tourist Bus Stopover in the hope of gaining great wealth. She is sent to supervise the landscaping and conversion, with four tradesmen, in readiness for the opening. Whilst driving through the desolate outback to her destination, she stops to offer assistance to a family of stranded travellers. Here she meets Todd, an intriguing half-caste Aboriginal man who leads her through his world of Dreamtime Magic, as he searches for his identity. Little does she expect to become involved in the mysterious death of a stockman on her first night at Mirikata, involving conflict and an unknown world of Indigenous Dreamtime Legends.

The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling

Autore: Wai Chim

Numero di pagine: 400

SHORT-LISTED: 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult Fiction Anna Chiu has her hands pretty full looking after her brother and sister and helping out at her dad's restaurant, all while her mum stays in bed. Dad's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction and even though she knows that things aren't right at home, she's starting to feel like she could just be a normal teen. But when Mum finally gets out of bed, things go from bad to worse. And as Mum's condition worsens, Anna and her family question everything they understand about themselves and each other. This nourishing tale about the crevices of culture, mental wellness and family was the winner of the Indie Book Awards. 'A book with a huge heartbeat and so much love infused in every page.' Alice Pung, author of Laurinda 'Deeply immersive storytelling, with sophistication and unfailing empathy. I adored this book.' Leanne Hall, author of Iris and the Tiger 'A heartwarming tale of family, food, and first love that will make you cry both happy and sad tears.' Justine Labalestier, author of My Sister Rosa

Craypot Cafe

Autore: Warwick M. Harvey

Numero di pagine: 104

For Mako, a twelve-year-old boy growing up in Kaikoura, New Zealand, life changes for the better after he throws a stone accidently through a church window. This incident begins his friendship with Hariata, an elderly spiritual Maori woman who opens Makos eyes to the spiritual aspect of his local environment among naturethe forest, the Kowhai river, the birds, and the ocean. Set in the summer of 1988, the adventure of growth for Mako and reconciliatory healing for Hariata unfold under the watchful eye of the sacred mountain. There is no beginning or end to nature, just as there is no beginning or end to life. The collage of beautiful colors in the paua shell comes from these elements, the heart and soul of our mountain. Again, do not be fooled by what you first see. These shells are the gems of the ocean. They are the rainbows of the sea, Mako. They are the mana from the sacred mountain that watches over all of us. This adventure was written twenty months before the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that shook the Kaikoura township and surrounding region on the 14 November 2016. Everyone in the area has been affected by it. My heartfelt thoughts go out to them all. Their struggle since to...

The Last Lighthouse

Autore: Sharma Krauskopf

Numero di pagine: 126

This work depicts the nine year quest of an American couple (an agricultural advisor and a writer/webmaster) living on a farm in Michigan, USA, to own and live in a remote Scottish lighthouse keepers home. In the form of e-mails, the book gives an intimate view of the gleefully-reported successes, and the less happily reported tragedies along the way, and describes the joys and difficulties of running and living in such a home in a remote, but beautiful, part of the Shetlands.

7 Birds

Autore: Pat Fitz

Numero di pagine: 12

This story was written as a way to explore how few details I could write and still convey a message and invoke sympathy for the characters. The beginning of the story has very little details and as it progresses, more and more details are added to show thoughts and deeper emotions. The reason why there are very little visual details about the characters, is because I desired for the readers to create their own visuals. Around the world, people look different. So if I write about one visual, that works for some areas but not for others, even if it was a very general look. However, this is a story that can happen anywhere. So it's more important that the readers fill in the visuals with their own beliefs and ideas than it is for me to write them. As the writer, I am responsible for conveying their actions, feelings, thoughts, and some beliefs. And I believe that the readers can create visuals that resonate more with their lives than I ever could. So I ask the readers to interact with the characters. Create your own visuals. Explore the world in which these characters live in. There isn't a right or wrong for these characters. Maybe the boy is a boy who thinks he is a boy. Maybe the...

Bob Stevenson

Autore: Richard Wiley

Numero di pagine: 224

“A witty, roller-coaster ride of uncertain identity set against the gritty certainties of New York City. In compelling, unadorned prose, Richard Wiley gives us a bewitching and ultimately moving tale.” —Caryl Phillips, author of A Distant Shore and The Lost Child Dr. Ruby Okada meets a charming man with a Scottish accent in the elevator of her psychiatric hospital. Unaware that he is an escaping patient, she falls under his spell, and her life and his are changed forever by the time they get to the street. Who is the mysterious man? Is he Archie B. Billingsly, suffering from dissociative identity disorder and subject to brilliant flights of fancy and bizarre, violent fits? Or is he the reincarnation of Robert Louis Stevenson, back to haunt New York as Long John Silver and Mr. Edward Hyde? Her career compromised, Ruby soon learns that her future and that of her unborn child depend on finding the key to his identity. With compelling psychological descriptions and terrifying, ineffable transformations, Bob Stevenson is an ingenious tale featuring a quirky cast of characters drawn together by mutual fascination, need, and finally, love. Richard Wiley is the author of eight...

The Uncle's Story

Autore: Witi Ihimaera

Numero di pagine: 388

Set in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam and in presentday New Zealand and North America, Witi Ihimaera's new novel confronts Maori attitudes toward sexuality and masculinity and contains some of the author's most passionate writing to date.

Three Boys Like You

Autore: William M. Gould

Numero di pagine: 356

Robert, Tony, and Philip thought their friendships would last forever; they were tragically wrong. In 1949, the three high school boys engaged in a harmless prank that unexpectedly deteriorated into a crime. An innocent man was blamed for their indiscretions, and the boys’ various moral qualms tore their relationships apart. It would be over twenty years before the teens would cross paths again—this time above the backdrop of Guatemala’s civil war. In 1983, Robert is a successful physician. Tony has become a war correspondent and novelist, and Philip thrives as an expatriate art dealer in the heart of Guatemala. The three are drawn together as the small country begins to experience the most dangerous year of its civil war. The three old friends cannot avoid one another in the midst of the conflict. Relationships are reformed, each man working toward his own agenda. The past inevitably intrudes upon the present as their personal values—and wills to live—clash amid the violence of uprising. The past cannot be changed, the present is what we make it, and the future has yet to be written. But will Robert, Tony, and Philip move beyond their haunted memories? And will they...

Kumakana: A Gronups Tale

Autore: Kevin Price

Numero di pagine: 293

At thirteen, Lavender Jensen is headstrong and determined, bored and reckless, until one day she crosses the line … In the arcane Kumakana forest, where one wrong move means certain death, Lavender Jensen’s sudden appearance sparks tensions between two clans of cunning, voracious predators, and the enigmatic guardians of the Natural Order—the Gronups. She meets Jerramunga, a buoyant, laconic, Aboriginal youth, a complete stranger, whose actions draw her into a series of encounters that test her beliefs and bring the powers of her imagination to the fore. As a life and death struggle unfolds, the pair discover ancient lore, inner strengths and hidden talents and their involvement becomes the key to the future of the mysterious world within the forest. And, perhaps, the world outside.

Surviving Cyril

Autore: Ramsey Hootman

Numero di pagine: 346

When Robin Matheson’s husband is killed in Afghanistan, she finds herself suddenly alone: an outsider in a community grieving for the hometown hero it never really knew. Though the thought of spending the rest of her life without Tavis is exhausting, Robin has no choice but to pull herself together for the sake of their son. She finds some satisfaction in cutting ties with Tav’s obnoxious best friend, Cyril—a 500-pound hacker who didn’t even bother to come to the funeral. Unfortunately, her three-year-old decides Cyril is now his best buddy, and Robin can’t bear to take anything else away from her son. A few hot dogs and video games won’t do any permanent damage… right? Cyril doesn’t magically transform into a good person—or even a decent one—but he does prove to be a better role model than Robin expected. Gradually, she also begins to realize that Cyril may be the one person who truly understands the magnitude of her loss. He also knows far more about her husband’s death than he’s been letting on.

Zelda’s Final Story

Autore: Elizabeth Léonie Simpson

Numero di pagine: 130

Where does evil reside? In witches or those most people would consider psychopathic? Not always. Sometimes it is discovered in ordinary people like Zelda who consider themselves to be good Christians—people who have been permanently warped by tragedy. Distortion follows distortion until innocence and naiveté disappear and everyday life is steeped in wilful, black destruction. Vain and arrogant, Zelda tells her own story. She carries to extremes her need to be the ruler of her world. When she becomes the sole guardian of her little sister, Netty, she blames her drunken French father for her mother’s accidental death. Raised in the Oklahoma farmhouse, Zelda assumes control of the homestead and extends her hatred of Papa to all other males, including Cousin Noll whom she deliberately cripples to force him to work for her. When she discovers his collection of sun-colored glass bottles, she shatters his hoard. Over time, more help is needed on the farm. Zelda entices an itinerant potter to move in, work for her, and build his own kiln (which she tests by the secret murder of Netty’s beloved kitten.) Netty is home-schooled, convinced that she is both sickly and shy. After Noll...

KORIMAKO

Autore: David Nelson

Numero di pagine: 179

Set in New Zealand's beautiful Golden Bay region, Korimako is a story of unanticipated love and new beginnings. Mike Robinson, recently retired and widowed, decides to restart his life and build a log house in Puponga, a remote settlement at the base of Farewell Spit. Mereana Marshall's marriage was never founded on love and has ended with physical abuse. She escapes to Puponga to decide her future. Mike and Mereana meet and a relationship develops, despite their different cultural backgrounds and twenty-year age difference, but their peaceful idyll in Puponga is threatened when they discover hidden cannabis plantations and experience the wrath of the drug dealers involved.

Rock Star's Rainbow

Autore: Kevin Glavin

Numero di pagine: 502

Come along and join the quixotic adventure, as it journeys from LA, to Amsterdam, to India, and back.

Angel Falls

Autore: Oliver Dick

Numero di pagine: 156

People bask in the glory of their successes and contemplate difficulties when they fail. Because of this element of human nature, those who have more difficulties in life also have more motivation and opportunity to develop their minds. In this tail of morality two, kindhearted individuals Linda and Peako, face the extreme moral challenge of taking life for the greater good. Linda, a devout Christian, sees only the good in the world. She emotionally, faithfully and completely embraces society's peaceful institutions, overlooking and/or forgiving any inconsistencies within them. Employing this perspective, she lacks the ability to distinguish between the beneficial elements within institutions' and those that are detrimental to society. Peako, on the other hand, scrutinizes every element of life. When he considers society's institution he breaks them down into their most basic elements. To him the all-inspiring institutions, which can bind nations, are no more than lists of ideas-some he likes and some he does not like. Viewing the worlds' great and inspiring institutions as long but simple lists of concise points makes life appear no more substantial than a game. Peako and Linda...

Lost Island

Autore: Steve Brezenoff

Numero di pagine: 98

When two boys are stranded after a shipwreck, the island they land on may not be what it seems.

The Journal

Autore: R. D. Stevens

Numero di pagine: 322

What do you do when you lose the only thing that you truly care for? Ethan Willis is a confused eighteen-year-old who struggles with the depth and uncertainty of life. It's been six months since Charlotte, his free-spirited sister, disappeared in Cambodia. In a last desperate attempt to find her, he sets off to follow her trail around Southeast Asia. Ethan idolizes his sister for her spontaneity and individualism, but finds himself unprepared for the colour and complexity that greet him on his journey. Thrown into this heady world of backpacking and clashing cultures, Ethan is confronted with the fact that Charlotte is not the only one who is lost. With only a battered journal and some new acquaintances to guide him, Ethan is taken on a meandering passage through the countryside of Cambodia, into the remotest parts of Laos, and finally to the party islands of Thailand. As this expedition unfolds, Ethan must also look inward to address unresolved questions about his past and the world around him, not only searching for Charlotte herself, but for an understanding of why she left. Ethan will stop at nothing to look for Charlotte, but is he truly ready to find her?

The Smell of the Moon

Autore: Lemanatele Mark Kneubuhl

Numero di pagine: 188

A middle-aged man resigns from his steady job, packs up his family and goes in search of a new, more relaxed life on a South Pacific island. This is a thoughtful, fanciful, moving tale, peopled with island aunties, cowboy cousins, ex-drug addict musicians, honest-to-goodness royalty, a seven-foot tall Voodoo-priest-handyman and a microbiologist.

SOMANO MANO Education & Nature Folktales 1

Autore: Vickie Soman

Numero di pagine: 222

"Holy cow, this is a scary-looking fish " he yelled . "It is a northern snakehead " Instantly, we all stepped backward in shock. I felt like jumping in the water to get away from my unwanted catch. Crys Kaikara, a bright, young girl from a large, loving, and multicultural family, loves education and nature. Though she excels at almost everything, fishing is her first love. Her passion brings fame when she catches a slimy snakehead in the Potomac River. As she learns about the frightening-looking fish and how it found its way into the river, the catch sets a hook in her active, inquisitive mind. Often mistaken for a boy because of her unmatched talents, Crys uses her love of water and environmental protection to accomplish a secret mission. With the help of her teachers, family, and friends, Crys carefully plans her strategy. See what happens to the Chesapeake Bay and its main tributary, the Potomac River, as Crys unveils her scheme on a grand scale. From the The Potomac River Angel mystery series for teens, Somano Mano Education & Nature Folktales 1 addresses topics such as education, gender, heritage, and the environment in a sensitive, yet humorous way. Readers will delight in...

Ghost Forest

Autore: Pik-shuen Fung

Numero di pagine: 0

This “powerful” (BuzzFeed) award-winning debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you’ve closed its covers. “Quietly moving . . . connected by a kind of dream logic . . . deeply felt . . . There is joy and tenderness in . . . Fung’s elegant storytelling.”—The New York Times Book Review How do you grieve, if your family doesn’t talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed protagonist of GhostForest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong “astronaut” fathers, he stays there to work, while the rest of the family immigrated to Canada before the 1997 Handover, when the British returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to China. As she revisits memories of her father through the years, she struggles with unresolved questions and misunderstandings. Turning to her mother and grandmother for answers, she discovers her own life refracted brightly in theirs. Buoyant and heartbreaking, Ghost Forest is a slim novel that envelops the reader in joy and sorrow. Fung writes with a poetic and haunting voice, layering detail and abstraction, weaving memory and oral history to paint ...

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