the old man sets out to the market with his wife’s shopping list firmly in mind and very confident that “there is nothing I can’t bring back”. On his way, he meets various people who entrust him with the task of bringing things back for them, too. He delivers the promised goods...
The story begins when 24 year old Salome Twynan discovers that her ex-husband had once again added another item to her divorce settlement; a penthouse unit at McMahon’s Point. Salome had married young, at the age of nineteen to a 49 year old man, who had warned her that people would...
“This was the wrong gift for my mom. IT was also the wrong gift for my 8-year-old cousin. It was absolutely the right gift for the guy with night vision goggles across the street. He no longer spies. Great success!” and another “Be prepared for a very kinky book! Various ...
Written by an 18-year-old Françoise Sagan, this short novel became an overnight bestseller, after it was published in 1954. A young Cécile joins her father for a summer holiday in a beautiful countryside near Paris. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, wh...
“Eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her family are old pros at fostering rescued dogs and cats from the local animal shelter. But they’ve got their work cut out for them when a beautiful bearded dragon with plenty of attitude arrives at their doorstep. Even though Kaita narrates the rollicki...
It is narrated by Maya, a confident and reasonable ten-year-old girl who likes summer, watermelons, and W.I.T.C.H. dolls, all appearing in the first doublespread. Maya is not a passive narrator; she is inquisitive, and asks readers numerous questions, such as “what do you like?”,...
while Ove’s active-aggressive. I wanted to write a coming -of-age story, this great adventure where someone leaves their home, but those stories are always written about 20-year-old men . . . and I wanted to write a coming-of-age story about a 63-year-old woman, because she’d ...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World―and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen "Around the year 1000, people around the globe started to realize for the first time that they could leave home, travel to other places, find out about their neighbors and adopt new approaches. A wa...
”Twelve-Year-Old Friendship Earthquake” Erin·KELLY (Philippines), tr. FENG Yi // 《十二岁的友谊地震》【菲】艾琳·凯莉 (著) 冯怡 (译)— A boy and girl meet online and find genuine friendship, which enables them to deal with the different challenges they each face as they grow up. [...
Working with offcuts fromPraise Basted In: A Friendship Quilt for Aunt Sallie(1995), Van Vliet and Audrey Holden cut pairs of letters of the alphabet and glued them back to back. These constitute the cube-book’s leaves, which are folded and glued to permit the book to open into a vari...