The Middle Grade Memoir of a Girl Boxer and Future Olympian.In this Lean-In style inspirational memoir, twelve-year-old Jesselyn Silva offers a ringside seat to girl power and what it takes to win in the ring and in life: punch by punch. Girl Boxer shows kids what it means to be true to yourself and stick with your dreams even when facing adversity and ridicule. Supported by her single dad, Jesselyn (JessZilla in the ring) first donned her boxing gloves at five years of age, making her one of very few female boxers in the country. Girl Boxer charts Jesselyn's oft times exhilarating and heartbreaking journey to success in a male dominated sport where she struggles to find partners to spar with and combats the viewpoint that no one wants to see a girl fight. Despite an inhospitable environment, Jesselyn still has her sights set on the Olympics. With the help of her very dad, Pedro, who has instilled in her a strong work ethic, she just might make... Views: 619
The hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from "a glowing light of modern Italian literature" (New York Times Book Review)At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink—created by a family's only son, Michele, who has fled from Italy to England to escape the dangers and threats of his radical political ties. This novel is part epistolary: his mother writes letters to him, nagging him; his sister Angelica writes, missing him; so does Mara, his former lover, telling him about the birth of her son who may be his own. Left to clean up Michele's mess, his family and friends complain, commiserate, tease, and grieve, struggling valiantly with the small and large calamities of their interconnected lives.Natalia Ginzburg's most beloved book in Italy and one of her finest achievements, Happiness, as Such is an original, wise, raw, comic novel that cuts to the bone. Views: 619
Henry Banks, star of the UK's most popular television series, has higher aspirations, ones befitting of his talent: a serious film career, beginning with a role in a brilliant Spanish director's next movie. To make the jump to the big screen, he'll have to remake himself in more than one way. But as he runs his morning miles and scrutinizes his changing physique in the mirror, he doesn't know that he's not alone in his obsession—Kristin, an unstable American fan, has her own lofty ambitions. From the author of Man-Booker shortlisted The Quickening Maze, Dream Sequence is a moving depiction of psychological damage and the unsettling consequences of fame. Views: 619
#8...The final book in San Francisco Steel SeriesTexasTime is running out for my brothers and me. We know Venom is coming back to claim what he thinks is his. He's lost too much to give up now. And we've lost too much to quit and just hand everything we're fighting for over to him. We're fighting for our very lives here.We have found the Triad's gold but the rest of it? We don't even know who it belongs to.Then "she" finds us and we don't know the first thing about her but she knows all about us. Especially about Slammer but he knows nothing about her at all.Her timing couldn't be worse, she and Venom come back at the same time, now she'll either live or die with us and we still don't know who she really is… but she's mine.PoppyWhen I was four, I was told my mother died. I went to live with my grandparents and for the next fourteen years I was blamed for her death every single day. They hated me for some reason.When I was eighteen, I found my grandparents had lied to me all these years. Someone sent me an old diary of my mom's. My mom hadn't died when I was four, my grandparents stole me from her. They kicked her out for loving my father.I knew then what I had to do. I had to find my family. Leaving behind the only family I knew was freeing somehow. I packed my bags and I left the farm where they kept me as a prisonerI set out to find my mom.What I found instead were two graves. My parents died a long time ago, then someone told me I still had family out there. I just had to find him.But I came at the wrong time, all hell was breaking loose and I was about to be caught in the crossfire. Views: 619
