![]() As tensions rise and secrets come out, will the girls ever become friends, let alone sisters? Two girls with two very different lives come together in this beautiful and moving story of friendship and family, by a major new voice in girls' fiction. But Cat is angry and resentful and resists Maya's attempts at friendship and soon Maya's idea of a perfect family is blown out of the water. Maya can't wait to welcome Cat into the family and hopes that by having a sister, her parents might learn to 'chill out' and give Maya a bit more freedom. But Cat and Maya's worlds collide when Cat is taken into care and Maya's parents make the life-changing decision to adopt her. ![]() Cat's spent her life protecting her mum and keeping some dark secrets all she wants is to be left alone. ![]() She's never known her dad and her mum's an alcoholic and is not capable of looking after herself, let alone her 11 year old daughter. ![]() But as an only child, Maya feels smothered by her parents' love and longs to be a given more freedom and independence but what Maya wants more than anything is a sister. She has a cosy, comfy life with her slightly hippy mum and dad by the sea in Cornwall. ![]() Two girls with two very different lives come together in this beautiful and moving story of friendship and family, by a major new voice in girls' fiction. ![]()
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![]() Later he became design director for the Olivetti Corporation of America, and then art director for Fortune magazine. When he moved to America in 1939, Lionni was hired by a Philadelphia advertising agency as art director. ![]() It was there that he met the contacts who were to give him a start as a professional graphic designer. Having settled in Milan soon after his marriage in 1931, he started off by writing about European architecture for a local magazine. Lionni's business training gradually receded into the background as his interest in art and design grew. ![]() He was born in Holland in 1910 of Dutch parents, and although his education did not include formal art courses (in fact, he has a doctorate in economics from the University of Genoa), he spent much of his free time as a child in Amsterdam's museums, teaching himself to draw. Leo Lionni has gained international renown for his paintings, graphic designs, illustrations, and sculpture, as well as for his books for children. Leo Lionni died in October of 1999 at his home in Tuscany, Italy, at the age of 89. He received the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal and was a four-time Caldecott Honor Winner-for Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated more than 40 highly acclaimed children's books. ![]() ![]() In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life. racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land. The paper accompanied it with a nude image of Virginia that had run on the cover of Aperture Magazine in 1990. ![]() ![]() In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sally Mann Damaged Child, 1984 Phillips Bidding closed The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed in February 1991 by food writer Raymond Sokolov critiquing Mann’s work. ![]() ![]() This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. A memoir quite unlike any other, this book by American photographer Sally Mann weaves together words and images to form a vivid personal history, revealing the ways in which Mann’s ancestry has informed the themes that dominate her work (namely family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South). ![]() ![]() SIMON: How did this character of Shy worm his way into your mind and heart? SIMON: Max Porter, author of "Grief Is The Thing With Feathers" and other novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages, joins us now from Bath, England. Psychologically disturbed juveniles requiring special educational treatment? Or a bunch of teenage criminals on a taxpayer-funded countryside retreat? ![]() He's sprayed, snorted, smoked, sworn, stolen, cut, punched, run, jumped, crashed an Escort, smashed up a shop, trashed a house, broken a nose, stabbed his stepdad's finger. MAX PORTER: (Reading) His heart is bump, bump, bumping like he's scared. Let's ask Max Porter to read what runs through the mind of the character he's created. Shy, a troubled British teen in the mid-1990s, has been sent to the Last Chance boarding school and has loaded his rucksack in the middle of the night to break out of his dorm and escape the bunk beds, the therapy groups and the counseling sessions. ![]() ![]() "Shy" by Max Porter is a short, fierce novel that can be a rant, a rumination, a reveal - blank verse and blunt talk. ![]() ![]() ![]() He injured himself in a parachuting accident in 1944 and, during his recovery period, wrote Brideshead Revisited. Waugh served in World War II but was undisciplined and unsuited to military life. In 1930, Waugh converted to Catholicism and married Laura Herbert. He became a war correspondent, covering events in Africa and South America and travelling extensively during this period. Waugh began to gain a reputation as a writer and worked for several well-known magazines and newspapers. At the end of this year, Waugh married Evelyn Gardner, but the couple separated two years later. ![]() Shortly after this, his comedic satire, Decline and Fall, also went into print. His first book, based on the life of the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was published in 1927. Waugh did not complete his degree at Oxford, and instead enrolled in art school, which he also did not complete. ![]() During this period, he had several homosexual relationships. Instead, he gained a notorious reputation for his drinking and his sardonic, unconventional approach to politics and culture. He received a scholarship to attend Oxford University but studied little during his time there. Waugh was a clever and inventive child, writing short stories and plays from a young age. Waugh’s family moved to the nearby countryside in 1907, and Waugh enjoyed his childhood in this idyllic setting. Evelyn Waugh was born to wealthy parents in 1903 in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspiring ” (Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road ).Īt the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized by the popular film Black Hawk Down, the majority of soldiers who died were killed instantly or bled to death before they could reach an operating table. This tragedy reinforced the need for a revolutionary treatment that could transform trauma medicine. "Suspenseful storytelling helps us see and feel the struggle and frustration, the sweat and tears. ![]() The "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once‑in‑a‑generation lifesavin The "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once‑in‑a‑generation lifesaving product. We're giving away 5 copies of IN THE BLOOD by Charles Barber! Enter for the chance to win! 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As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list, they both learn that wishes can come true.but not necessarily in the way you expect!"-Publisher.Ĭontainer of (work): Macomber, Debbie. It's a relationship that becomes far more involving-and far more important-than Anne Marie had ever imagined. When Anne Marie volunteers at a local school, a little girl named Ellen enters her life. With several of her friends, she makes a list of twenty wishes: things she always wanted to do but never did. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, she struggles to find happiness. 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We’re introduced to our core cast of characters: Meredith, James, Richard, Alexander, Wren, Filippa, and Oliver. After resigning from his job as detective, Colburne goes to Marks and asks to finally be told–off-record–the truth about what happened ten years ago.įrom then, we’re taken through a whirlwind, Shakespeare-tainted story of love and betrayal, secrets and loss, and ambition and revenge through the eyes of a young, naïve Oliver Marks. ![]() But Colburne, still plagued with questions, isn’t satisfied. Now, a decade later, Marks’ sentence has finally come to a close, and he is released from prison. The premise is as follows: ten years ago, then-college student Oliver Marks was arrested and convicted for murder, in part thanks to the work of Detective Colburne. ![]() It is, at its core, a character-driven story that deftly explores the topic of life imitating art. 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