![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A solid and enjoyable listening experience from start to finish. In addition, her interpretation of Millicent's attempts to be a little more hip or popular are laugh-out-loud funny (just as they are written in Yee's fine debut novel). Lisa Yee is known for Millicent Min, Girl Genius. Agena nails the assured tone of someone who has reached lofty goals and received heaps of praise. And best of all-at least initially-Emily doesn't know a thing about Millicent's intellectual gifts and thinks Millicent is swell all the same. But along the way, Millicent finds her first true friend in 11-year-old Emily. Millicent's mom has signed her up for a volleyball team, and Millicent will be tutoring a family friend her own age, Stanford Wong. Though she's long been content to spend hours at the library or visiting with her grandmother, the summer before 12th grade provides Millicent's social life a real jolt. Millicent has always been an overachiever, and takes pride in the fact that she will be entering her senior year of high school when her contemporaries begin sixth grade. ![]() , is perfect as Millicent Min, a certified genius who still has plenty to learn in this humorous and touching novel. Her fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve. Youthful actress Agena, perhaps best known for her role as Lane Kim on TV's Gilmore Girls ![]()
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![]() Sally Rooney is at her best with this gripping, funny, smart, and steamy novel. They are searching for that beautiful world, a life of complete happiness and fulfillment but will they find it with each other? They worry about everything life throws at them from sex to friendships and the world they live in. They want each other, the break-up, they get back together and break up again. All of them are still relatively young but the clock is ticking. She slips back into old habits and begins flirting with Simon, who she has known since childhood. Her best friend Eileen is fresh out of a relationship and is on the rebound. ![]() They are both 29 and are still trying to find their way in the world, primarily by engaging in dating relationships and pursuing conversations about politics (all the while not actually doing anything productiveĪlice is a successful novelist of considerable means, she meets Felix who works in a warehouse and despite their social inequalities asks him to travel to Rome with her. Click here to purchase from Rakuten KoboĪlice and Eileen, are best friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aasiya Shah makes a wonderful Meena, embodying the youthful but kooky jaunt of a young girl not comfortable in her own skin, but still eager to “be cool”. Yet Gupta is quick to stress that Anita and Me is first and foremost a coming-of-age story, which the actors assert with stellar performances. Gupta keeps the play entirely relatable by parroting what we read in the papers every day. We hear the familiar war cry of the far-right, that immigrants are “coming here and taking our jobs”. Anita is told that she is “not like the others”. The micro-aggressions are the same – of a nice day, Anita’s father is told that it will finally be “sunny enough” for him. The writer Tanika Gupta pointedly teases out the parallels between the time that Syal and Anita grew up and modern society. It seems only fitting that the stage adaptation now comes to King’s Theatre amidst a climate of uncertainty about migrant rights and national identity. The book was then adapted for film in 2002, the same year that the British National Party won three council seats. When she first published the novel in 1996, Syal was reflecting on the experience of growing up in the 1970s as a second-generation immigrant in an isolated Midlands village. Meera Syal’s Anita and Me continues to be vividly relevant to politics today. ![]() ![]() ![]() Henriette eventually teaches him to communicate using a system where he spells out words: she reads out the letters of the alphabet in descending order of their use in the French language, and he blinks his functioning left eye when she reaches the appropriate letter. Among his compassionate recuperative team are his physical therapist Marie, and his speech therapist Henriette. His physical situation and hospitalization uncomfortably bring together the many people in his life, including: Céline Desmoulins, his ex-lover and mother of his children Inès, his current lover and his aged father who he calls Papinou. ![]() One of his few functioning muscles is his left eye. Although his cognitive facilities are intact, he quickly learns that he has what is called locked-in syndrome which has resulted in him being almost completely paralyzed, including not being able to speak. ![]() He is in a Berck-sur-Mer hospital, where he has been for the past several weeks in a coma after suffering a massive stroke. Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby - Jean-Do to his friends - awakens not knowing where he is. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tookie is recently out of prison for transporting a corpse across state lines, which would have netted her $26,000 had she not been ratted out and had the body not had crack cocaine duct-taped to its armpits, a mere technicality of which Tookie was unaware. Flora dies on All Souls’ Day 2019 with a book splayed next to her-she didn't have time to put a bookmark in it-but she continues shuffling through the store’s aisles even after her cremation. ![]() Flora appears at the store one day with a photo of her great-grandmother, claiming the woman was ashamed of being Indian: “The picture of the woman looked Indianesque, or she might have just been in a bad mood,” Tookie decides. The most recent recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction-for The Night Watchman (2020)-turns her eye to various kinds of hauntings, all of which feel quite real to the affected characters.Įrdrich is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore in Minneapolis and, in this often funny novel, the favorite bookstore of Flora, one of narrator Tookie’s “most annoying customers.” Flora wants to be thought of as Indigenous, a “very persistent wannabe” in the assessment of Tookie, who's Ojibwe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly Lalla and Harriet seem headed in two very different directions. But just as Lallas interest in skating starts to fade, Harriets natural talent begins to emerge. Harriet is energized by talented, funny Lalla, and Lalla in turn blossoms under the affection of openhearted Harriet. Although they have little in common, the girls form a fast friendship. ![]() For on her very first day at the rink, Harriet meets orphaned Lalla Moore, who is being brought up by her wealthy aunt Claudia to be a skating champion. Read the classic that has captivated generations! Its a stroke of great luck when Harriet Johnsons doctor prescribes skating after an illness that has left her feeling frail and listless. Can their friendship survive? Book Synopsis A skating champion. Two girls with little in common other than a love of ice skating forge a fast friendship, but they soon seem to be heading in very different directions. About the Book A classic story by beloved author Streatfeild is back in print. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the dark side of nature becomes a frightening adversary, too. But a cold-blooded old enemy and a ruthless new adversary threaten to crush Artis and Bear's chance for happiness. Their past and their destiny entwined, Artis and Bear meet and pledge their love. With his brothers safely settled, the time comes for Bear to find his own wife and future. Adopted by the Wyllies, he becomes a loyal and fiercely protective brother who journeys with them to Kentucky. Bear MacKee grew up in the Highlands too, but disease claims his parents on his family's voyage to the colonies. After seven long years, Artis receives her freedom dues - land in Kentucky. Forced into indentured servitude in the colonies, she becomes a Virginia plantation servant. ![]() Patrick Steller, the Countess of Sutherland's estate manager, murders Artis' family and burns her village. The Highland Clearances abruptly destroy Artis MacKay's idyllic world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy."-Judy Blume "Some characters become your friends for life. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. More than seventy detective novels of British writer Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie include The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and And Then There Were None (1939) she also wrote plays, including The Mousetrap (1952). Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, her most famous children's book, was first published in 1972 and has since sold over two million copies. Judith Viorst is the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction for children as well as adults. B is much too tall to bonk on the head with her suitcase), or smushing her pickle sandwich? Beloved children's author Judith Viorst and Caldecott-winning illustrator Lane Smith offer a fresh and funny tale with several surprise endings! B does not respond well to those), or using force (Mr. How will Lulu ever get out of this sticky situation without throwing a fit (Mr. Brontosaurus thinks that "she" would make an ideal pet for "him!" 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