To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. “Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. But is prodigy Carrie really going to dumb things down just to fit in? She isn't! But when her own therapist gives her a five-point plan to change her social-outcast status, Carrie takes a hard look at herself-and agrees to try. She's sick of trying to be like everybody else. There they rule as king and queen, until a terrible tragedy occurs that helps Jess understand just how much he has learned from Leslie.”Ĭarrie would rather stay in bed than deal with the immoral, sex-obsessed hypocrites who seem to overrun her hometown, New York City. Join Jess and Leslie as they form an unlikely friendship and create the imaginary land of Terabithia. “Discover the beloved Newbery Medal-winning story of Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke. Through shifting points of view, the novel reveals each character's thoughts and feelings as they struggle with the desire to connect and the fear of attachment.”Įnglish, Spanish, German, Italian, French The sole survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, Simon has been adopted by a widower Maori factory worker, Joe Gillayley, who is both tender and horribly brutal toward the boy. Kerewin Holmes is a painter and a loner, convinced that "to care for anything is to invite disaster." Her isolation is disrupted one day when a six-year-old mute boy, Simon, breaks into her house. “Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. An antic blend of homespun and intellectual humor, Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast is a place readers will want to return to again and again.” Hector and Virgil think of their B&B as a refuge, a retreat, a haven, where folks may bring their own books or peruse the brothers' own substantial library. “A pair of endearingly eccentric bachelors-in their fifties, and fraternal twins-own and operate a bed & breakfast establishment where people like them, the "gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused," can feel at home. Javier Marías and Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
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