![]() ![]() It's a book about finding happiness within yourself, and how sometimes, we have to hurt to find out what happiness is. It isn't a book that is sad to be sad, or that gives you a sugar-sweet happy ending just to satisfy that desire in all of us for happiness. But the thing about this sadness, is that it's a needed sadness. I finished about an hour ago, and I still feel like crying. ![]() I should have expected it, considering the novel is clearly heavily influenced by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but this novel still took me for a spin, and in the end, it hurt my heart so badly that I don't even know what to think. 'Mandatory reading' New York Times Read more ![]() Unforgettable.' Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. 'Silvera managed to leave me smiling after totally breaking my heart. Soon Aaron is faced with a choice – one that will make him question what it is he wants, and how far he’ll go to get it. But as Aaron’s feelings for Thomas intensify, tensions with his other friends start to build. Thomas is smart and funny, and before long Aaron is spending all his time with him. Life hasn’t been easy for sixteen‑year‑old Aaron Soto, but with the help of his girlfriend, Genevieve, he’s slowly remembering what happiness might feel like. In his twisty, gritty, profoundly moving New York Times bestselling-debut, Adam Silvera brings to life a charged, dangerous near-future summer in the Bronx. From the author of the INTERNATIONAL NO.1 BESTSELLER THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END. ![]()
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![]() This prompted an odyssey across time and space as Chloe - while at museums, operas, concerts and sporting events, and in the presence of awe-inspiring nature - reconsidered the consciousness-shifting power of beauty. When she became pregnant (disproving her doctor, who had assumed it impossible), something necessary in her started to crack, forcing her to reckon with her defensive positionality to the world and the people in it. 'Challenges the unspoken social taboos about the disabled body, unpacking myths of beauty and our complicity in upholding those myths' Lit Hubīorn with sacral agenesis, a visible congenital disability that affects her stature and gait, Chloe Cooper Jones had always found solace in what she thought of as 'the neutral room' - a dissociative space in her mind that offered her solace and self-protection, but also kept her isolated. ![]() 'Gorgeously, vividly alive' New York Times 'An exquisite exploration of disability, identity and the human capacity to do (and be) more than we've ever dreamed' Time Focus on the feeling of the world getting wider. No matter what you’ve been through, your story is one among many. ![]() FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR My focus is on how you feel not what you do. ![]() ![]() Barnabas, Quentin and Adele join forces to battle this multiple menace. ![]() Spivak, of course, brings with him a whole group of well-heeled vampires, all just waiting in line to be cured. Spivak arrives in Maine to set up a clinic, which Elizabeth and Roger unknowingly support. He has no idea she's one of the living dead. In an amusing sidebar, Roger Collins falls for her too. She must find enough blood every night to survive and yet somehow hide her dread secret from the world. But then, Adele has more to worry about than mere mundane romance. Both men adore Adele, and she has reciprocal feelings for them. A dirty trick indeed! And she now seeks sanctuary with Barnabas and Quentin, who gladly invite her to live at the Old House. It was a corrupt doctor, Stefan Spivak, who did this to Adele, transferring the affliction from a wealthy vampire patient to herself. ![]() Even our heroine, Adele Marriot, is a vampire! Poor girl, she was tricked into undergoing surgery that made her this way. Dan ("Marilyn") Ross treats us to a plethera of supernatural thrills and chills, all crammed into one book. BARNABAS, QUENTIN AND THE VAMPIRE BEAUTY is the last title (#32) in the Dark Shadows series. ![]() ![]() As the years pass, Judy experiences triumphs and setbacks in her education as well as her writing. Through it all, she sends letters to the benefactor who she has decided to nickname Daddy Long Legs, on account of his lanky shadow, the only glimpse she had of him. She forms some firm opinions on women's rights and religion. One of her first acts is to change her name to Judy. She never had a chance to really get to know herself. She learns about history, philosophy, science, etc. She goes to college and discovers a new world. Jerusha is still excited by the opportunity. In exchange for her education, she is to write him a letter every month, letters which he will never answer. ![]() He doesn't want her to know who he is, he doesn't want to have any contact with her. After all, who would take interest in someone who has spent her entire life in an orphanage? A very strange man, it seems. ![]() When Jerusha Abbott finds out that a mysterious benefactor is going to send her to college so she can become a writer, she couldn't be more surprised. ![]() |