A Moving Fable For Readers Of All Ages -- From National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning Author Reynolds PriceBen Barks loved elephants long before he'd seen one. He sometimes wondered how that love started....It's been a whole year since Ben's mother died, and nothing has soothed his broken heart -- except thinking about elephants, those magnificent creatures his mother loved too. Imagining their awesome grace always calms him in a way that his sad father and closest friends never can. When a one-ring circus comes to Ben's small town, he discovers Sala, an elephant who survived a wicked trainer's abuses. And soon, their powerful bond becomes a miraculous healer -- and gives Ben renewed hope for the future. Views: 33
The Monkey’s Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre, Compiled by Gary Hoppenstand, brings together a unique collection of W. W. Jacobs’s horror stories never before collected. There are eighteen stories altogether in this collection of the macabre and supernatural. Jacobs’s own boyhood memories of South Devon Wharf lend an authenticity to the many stories with nautical backgrounds or that feature seamen as protagonists. Views: 33
A heartbreaking story of a talented teenage artist's surreal awakening to the horrifically unoriginal brokenness of her family from critically acclaimed award-winner A.S. King. Sarah can't draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has "done the art." She thinks she's having an existential crisis. And she might be right; she does keep running into past and future versions of herself as she explores the urban ruins of Philadelphia. Or maybe she's finally waking up to the tornado that is her family, the tornado that six years ago sent her once-beloved older brother flying across the country for a reason she can't quite recall. After decades of staying together "for the kids" and building a family on a foundation of lies and violence, Sarah's parents have reached the end. Now Sarah must come to grips with years spent sleepwalking in the ruins of their toxic marriage. As Sarah herself often observes, nothing about her pain is remotely original... Views: 33
Temptation, indulgence, exploration and shortcuts. Love and compulsion. An ocean in Kansas, the Magic Lino, the real story behind the one told by Robert Louis Stevenson, a chef dying of ennui, gathering bluebirds, paying with candywrap. And the greatest story ever told--by Asher E. Treat, of course. The glorious chaos of singing, prancing, perfumed and stinking, the dead and the busy, tragic and achingly otherwise--life itself.** Views: 33
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Espionage affair is complicated to something special and romantic. A professional killer, infiltrated from Iran to eliminate Abigail, and accidentally kills her secretary. Abigail tries to run away, but the Mossad agents take advantage of this opportunity and send her to face her killer's senders. They change her identity, put up a gravestone on an empty grave, bearing her name and a new name was given to her - Lucy.
Her story is turning into an unbelievable love story, but the relations mess because it embodies the dangerous encounter between cultures and turns to be A crazy love story with an exciting plot.
Review by Vincent :
I liked this story. It was a great, thrilling espionage novel. Abigail comes across as a heroic woman, who infiltrates the enemy lines and puts her life down the line to do what is right. Bravery and determination are clearly an inspirational theme in this book. "Abigail" is a book to dive into for several hours. In fact, the cataloging of "Abigail" as an espionage and suspense book, cause it some injustice, since the plot is sophisticated and so overwhelming that you will not want to stop reading it, even if you are not an avid fan of this kind of genre. From the beginning, with the first words: "The assassin aimed the gun and pulled the trigger…" you will find yourself dive into some adventures and suspense and I highly recommend it!
This is an Great story that keeps you wondering what will happening to the characters.
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In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cows are sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Leibowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves. David Sedaris made his debut on NPR's Morning Edition with "SantaLand Diaries," recounting his strange-but-true experiences as an elf at Macy's, and soom became one of the show's most popular commentators. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen. Views: 33
