![]() ![]() Free-spirited Sam helps Niki get in touch with her passionate and creative side, and with her Indian roots. When Niki and Sam join Diya, her husband and their friends on a group honeymoon, their connection grows deeper. ![]() At the wedding, the champagne flows and their flirtatious banter makes it clear that the attraction is mutual. Maybe it's the splendor of Mumbai or the magic of the holiday season, but Niki is immediately drawn to Sam. Niki arrives in India just in time to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, where she meets London musician Sameer Mukherji. So for the first time ever, she throws caution to the wind and books a last-minute flight for her friend Diya’s wedding. When she's laid off, Niki realizes that practical hasn't exactly paid off for her. And she's always dated guys that seem good on paper, rather than the ones who give her butterflies. She's always stuck close to home, in case her family needed her. Despite her love for music and art, she became an analyst for the stability. Twenty-nine-year-old Niki Randhawa has always made practical decisions. One type-A data analyst discovers her free-spirited side on an impulsive journey from bustling Mumbai to the gorgeous beaches of Goa and finds love waiting for her on Christmas morning. "Lalli's prose is deft, her characters are delightful and her book is the just-right holiday romance."- USA Today ![]()
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![]() |a Fathers and daughters |v Juvenile fiction. |a A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self. |a 1 volume (unpaged) : |b color illustrations |c 27 cm. |a NjBwBT |b eng |c FBR |e rda |d FBR |d JNE |d NB |d EL Orange/Case Juvenile Picture Book Fiction North Stonington/Wheeler Children's Picture Books North Branford/Smith Children's Picture Books North Branford/Atwater Children's Picture Book ![]() Madison/Scranton Children's Picture Books - New ![]() Ledyard/Gales Ferry Juvenile Picture Books Hamden/Whitneyville Children's Picture Books ![]() ![]() ![]() Huw's mother, Beth, is the stereotype of a strong nurturer whose family unity is her primary goal in life. ![]() Gwilym Morgan, a stern and powerful Christian, is their wise, loving, gentle father. The story is narrated by Huw Morgan, the youngest son of seven children, with only one younger sister, Olwen. Based partially on his own childhood, Llewellyn manages to portray a sublime way of life that, over the years, turns dark and sad as the coal industry changes, and its mining residue destroys the beautiful natural setting of the village. Richard Llewellyn transports us to a small village in Wales where simple, humble people are dependent upon the coal that runs in seams in the earth that cut through the valleys. ![]() ![]() Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Bahia de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear and even a retainer with fake teeth attached.įrom award-winning graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier comes a new story about family, friendship and hope. Raina just wanted to be a normal girl, but one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls severely injuring her two front teeth. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she's a terrible singer. Raina Telgemeier, the author of the award-winning SMILE, brings us her next full-color graphic novel. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. ![]() ![]() The companion to Raina Telgemeier's #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling and Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir, SMILE. Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: ![]() ![]() ![]() It follows the life of Isabella Bella Swan, a human teenager who moves to Forks, Washington. The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions. Twilight is a series of fantasy romance novels by Stephenie Meyer. Just when the frayed strands of Bella’s life-first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed… forever? Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. ![]() ![]() His first published novel, Out of the Silent Planet, tells the story of a journey to Mars its hero was loosely modeled on his friend and fellow Cambridge scholar J.R.R. Storytelling came naturally to Lewis, who spent the rainy days of his childhood in Ireland writing about an imaginary world he called Boxen. The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind." "But if they don't show you any moral, don't put one in. "Let the pictures tell you their own moral," he once advised writers of children's stories. Lewis was famous both as a fiction writer and as a Christian thinker, and his biographers and critics sometimes divide his personality in two: the storyteller and the moral educator, the "dreamer" and the "mentor." Yet a large part of Lewis's appeal, for both his audiences, lay in his ability to fuse imagination with instruction. Awards-Fellow, British Academy Carnegie Medal for TheĬ.Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. In this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. ![]() ![]() ![]() This kind of celebration, a small slave freedom, only happens on the northern half of the Randall population, under James. ![]() The chapter continues on the day of Jockey’s birthday feast. By that point, Blake was gone, having tried to run away and been punished for it. ![]() ![]() No one intervened when a few men dragged her behind the smokehouse in a gang rape. After the incident, Cora became even more of an outcast. Miraculously, Blake backed down, leaving Cora to her plot. Overcome with rage, “in a spell” (19), Cora smashed the doghouse with a hatchet. One day he tried to claim Cora’s plot for his dog, building a doghouse on the plot and digging out the garden vegetables. Blake, a young, powerful worker, new to the Randall plantation, was next. A fellow slave, Ava, set her eye on the plot and made Cora’s life miserable, forcing her to move to Hob, a cabin for the outcasts of slave society on the Randall plantation. On her own at age eleven, Cora was left to fend for the land herself. Slaves coveted these small plots of land, and both Ajarry and then Mabel guarded their vegetables with zeal. The plot was first planted by her grandmother, Ajarry, when she arrived on the Randall plantation. She reminisces about the story of the garden, the place she returns to every Sunday where she “own herself for a few hours” (12). The second chapter transitions to Cora’s perspective, opening as she sits at the edge of her small garden plot, awaiting the start of celebrations to mark the birthday of a fellow slave Jockey. ![]() ![]() ![]() Words like “hell” and “damn” flow freely in descriptive passages as the tension mounts. Not only is the content of the book much more adult, but so is the form. ![]() It even includes a classic Bondian torture scene (but don’t panic, parents, the torture is more about endurance than person-to-person sadism). This is a tougher, darker, much more violent book than SilverFin. The key difference seems to be that SilverFin was written as a children’s book (that could still be appreciated by adults) while Blood Fever appears to have been written with a more adult readership in mind. I said JAMES BOND novel because this is a book that could have come from the pen of Ian Fleming. Notice I didn’t qualify this by saying “Young Bond” or “continuation” novel. This is NOT the case with Young Bond Book 2: Blood Fever, which takes a confident quantum leap into maturity and gives Bond fans of all ages one of the best James Bond novels yet written. ![]() A risky concept this Young Bond idea, and in SilverFin, author Higson and the 007 copyright holders showed signs of understandable uncertainty. Clearly a book written for a preteen target audience, it too often seemed to mimic a Harry Potter adventure. For this old 007 fan, Charlie Higson’s first Young Bond novel, SilverFin, was a mixed bag. ![]() ![]() ![]() He borrowed heavily from both, but developed minor characters, particularly Mercutio and Count Paris, in order to expand the plot. ![]() Brooke and Painter are Shakespeare's chief sources for Romeo and Juliet. Its plot is based on an Italian tale, translated into verse as Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562, and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1582. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to Ancient Greece. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime. Along with Hamlet, it is one of Shakespeare's most frequently performed plays and is considered by many to be the world's most iconic love story. The play has been highly praised by literary critics for its language and dramatic effect. It ends with their suicides, uniting rival households of a long-running family feud. ![]() Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage star-crossed lovers. Romeo and Juliet in the famous balcony scene by Ford Madox Brown ![]() ![]() In the first section, Douglas and his friend Tom collect dandelions in order to make wine. The book is divided into three sections, each focusing on a different aspect of Douglas’s summer. Bradbury once said that Dandelion Wine was his “most deeply personal work,” and it is easy to see why. It is also a book about time, memory, and the power of storytelling. Dandelion Wine is a coming-of- age story, a nostalgia-tinged ode to childhood, and a portrait of a small town in the 1920s. ![]() All the while, Douglas is aware that this summer might be his last carefree one, as he is on the cusp of becoming a teenager. ![]() The novel follows Douglas Spaulding, a young boy, as he navigates his way through a summer full of firsts: first love, first heartbreak, first job. ![]() The book is set in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based on Bradbury’s childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. Dandelion Wine is a novel by Ray Bradbury, first published in 1957. ![]() |