![]() During the main part of the book he has a bit of a depression, because his mother lost his father. He’s very gentle and he likes to help people, and he has a clear opinion of the world. Haroun: Haroun’s a boy of about 15 years old. On the dark side of the moon lies the city of Chup, in which everybody is quiet all the time. ![]() On the sunny side of the moon lies the city of Gup, in which everybody is talking and discussing all the time. This sea contains, like the name says, an uncountable amount of stories. ![]() Most of the surface is sea, the sea of stories. It’s travelling so fast that it can’t be seen from earth, and one side is always dark, while the other lies always in the sun. The first and last part of the book take place in a imaginary land which isn’t named, but the main part is situated on the earth’s second moon, named Kahani. ![]()
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John Musker here, he of the tall, spindly frame and hatchet face, and happy to shed some light on the man who particularly helped Ron Clements and me bring a mermaid to life, and a genie to strut his stuff: the uber-talented, brilliant, and sorely missed Howard Ashman. ![]() ![]() Pros: An engrossing premise allows readers to gradually get to know Kammie and her family as her thoughts travel back and forth in time. It’s a race against time, as the National Guard is called in and an attempt is made to dig her out of her prison. ![]() A rescue party eventually arrives, but by then the oxygen in the well has dipped to dangerous levels and Kammie is drifting in and out of consciousness. As the hours pass, she thinks about her past life, especially the recent arrest of her father for embezzlement, and his imprisonment that led to their move to Texas and descent into poverty. After a few half-hearted rescue attempts, the three girls disappear, and Kammie is left alone, unsure if they will ever come back. ![]() Before she can finish, the rotten wood breaks and she falls into the well, where she is trapped, arms pinned to her sides. As part of her initiation, they tell her to stand on top of an old well and sing a song. Summary: Kammie Summers, new to her Texas middle school, is trying to get in with the cool girls. ![]() ![]() He had done some experiments on inanimate objects and even animals but never to a human. ![]() ![]() Griffin’s studies in this field were not very advanced up to this point. The very first action that sets the entire tone for this novel is the act of Griffin turning himself invisible. Through his actions The Invisible Man’s being is revealed and ripped apart to show his selfish, arrogant personality. The persona of Griffin proves this right. 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After Lawrence’s death, Françoise faced the daunting responsibility of running Thula Thula without him. But then she fell in love with conservationist Lawrence Anthony and everything changed. " -Publishers WeeklyĪ heart-warming sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony's wife Françoise Malby-Anthony.Ī chic Parisienne, Françoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. ![]() "Malby-Anthony offers a book of great inspiration and wide appeal to nature-loving readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. 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She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal–an experience that shocks him to his core. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2010, a good friend urged her to submit to a publishing company, and the day she received the acceptance and contract was the best day of her life. Her journey into gay romance began in 2005 when she began posting her original fiction on a forum for feedback and readers’ pleasure. ![]() Someday she hopes to begin writing as a full-time career and bringing more of her ideas to life. She currently resides in South Florida with her dog and two cats, volunteers for an animal rescue in her spare time, and works as a manager for a financial lending institute. Her foray into creating her own worlds and telling her characters’ life stories was triggered by her own love of reading. Loveless began her adventure in writing romance at the young age of twelve. ![]() ![]() ![]() I too have wondered if I’m in demand to tick diversity boxes. As an Asian American journalist, I’ve felt pressures similar to those Kuang explores. Talking via phone with Kuang felt like finally divulging secrets we’ve all known. Steph Cha shares a meal and some notes on performing identity with the “Interior Chinatown” author. She scores a big book deal and rides a wave of “own voices” storytelling in ways that make you question everything.īooks Charles Yu knows the world isn’t black and white June, who is white, publishes it as her own, but under a new, racially ambiguous name - Juniper Song. When rising-star novelist Athena Liu dies suddenly, her fellow writer and frenemy June Hayward is right there to pick up the pieces - or rather, to steal Athena’s manuscript, a saga involving Chinese laborers during World War I. A dark satire on the publishing industry and the many-layered ironies of public discourse around Asian American representation, it starts with a first-chapter twist. She has already published four fantasy novels infused with Chinese history and profound questions about colonial legacies, including the “Poppy War” trilogy and last year’s bestseller, “Babel, or the Necessity of Violence.”īut Kuang’s new novel, “ Yellowface,” out Tuesday, is both a departure and a quantum leap straight into the zeitgeist. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]() ![]() There were no major complaints in this book besides the fact that they did not include other teammates’ reactions and observations to their stars. All I knew about these two superstars was that they were a great rival, that’s it, but after reading I realized that there were more to these two phenomenons. ![]() Basketball fans, especially Magic and Larry fans, would absolutely enjoy reading this book. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird are known as two of the most successful basketball players of all time, but When the Game was ours reveals the two stars’ misfortune and major obstacles. As the reader, I have been “stuck” into this book while the author does a fantastic job balancing out the plot. The author does an amazing job bringing me into the book by starting with a conflict that Larry Bird had to face at the end of his high school years. ![]() The readers are sent through numerous conflicts as they achieve their biggest goals, NCAA championships and an NBA title.Įven though Bird and Johnson have been credited the author of this amazing book, we can see that it is MacMullan’s book as we see that most of it is written in third person. ![]() From the end of their high school years to the college games between Indiana State and Michigan State, and ending with their final professional basketball games, they have been in a competition. The book takes us behind the scenes of both players’ progression in the game of basketball. ![]() When the Game was ours takes us into the famous rivalry between the two best basketball players of all time in Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. ![]() |