“A gripping novel” of two North Korean teenage girls, and their harrowing journey as they escape the authoritarian state ( O, The Oprah Magazine ). Before she met Il-sun in an orphanage, Gi was a hollow husk of a girl, broken from growing up in one of North Korea’s forced-labor ...
husband’s past, kathryn uncovers a hidden truth. what she wouldn’t give to turn back time and be able to love her husband for the man that he was, not for the man she always wanted him to be. did you find some new books to dive into in this christian fiction book series for ...
We’re looking for stories, essays, memoir and poetry on anything to do with the transition to adulthood: first love, hormonal angst, Saturday jobs, brushes with the law, experimentation, gaining independence, losing virginity. Literary reflections on books that made an impact during late adolescen...
For non graphic work, I really enjoyed What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama, The Killer’s Daughter by Kate Wiley. No non-fiction or gaming books read in January (not quite true, I’ve flipped through many gaming books, but none were a dedicated cover-to-cover...
but I remind myself of being a comics reader in the 1980s, when the Big Two publishers seemed to be embarrassed by anything too “wacky,” and it was left to the independents to publish books like Marc Schultz’sCadillacs and Dinosaurs(or for that matter,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as...
I was one of the thousands of teenage girls who looked forward to my weekly copy of Jackie from the age of eleven. Jackie wasthemagazine for teens of my generation. This publication takes a look back through the decades of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. It is like peeling back the ye...
An inspirational introduction to the topic of the Holocaust for children. A grandmother gently shares her story with her granddaughter of her early life during the Holocaust, including being separated from the other students at school, being separated from her parents and sent to stay with strangers...
Katherine Howe's "A True Account" centers on the story of Hannah Masury, a teenage girl in the Golden Age of Piracy, who takes her fate into her own hands and claims a spot on the crew of fearsome pirate Ned Low. Disguised as a cabin boy, she'll be part of a violent and vicious...
One has a child about to leave for college and one in college. One had teenaged kids and a deadbeat ex-husband. Their lives are about to change even more. No, not menopause, though that cannot be too far in the future. The three are out celebrating a birthday when the car ends up...
Generic patterns are discernible in a selection of portrayals of New Christian Groups in teenage fiction published between 1992 and 2001. New Christian Groups are presented as 'other', in lifestyle and worship. Oppressive fathers and romantic attraction across the religious divide combine to push ...