3/18/2023 0 Comments Behind the paint audio book![]() ![]() “When people look at George, they think they see a boy. A fractured neighborhood unites with just a few seeds, turning a drab empty lot in Cleveland into beautiful green garden.” three hours and under Georgeby alex gino This charming middle grade novel “tells thirteen stories from diverse perspectives-young and old, immigrant and native, haunted and hopeful. ![]() Obsessed with her, our narrator moves through her days presided over by the all-too-real ghost of the first marriage, fantasizing about how the first wife lives her life. The daring and precise build up to an eerily wonderful denouement is a triumph of subtlety and surprise.” Seedfolksby paul fleischman “In her singular new novel Sisters, Tuck gives a very different portrait of marital life, exposing the intricacies and scandals of a new marriage sprung from betrayal. Tuck’s unnamed narrator lives with her new husband, his two teenagers, and the unbanishable presence of his first wife-known only as she. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.” sistersby lily tuck “ The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. However, when the ‘psychic’ visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan’s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore.” The Prophetby kahlil gibran (narrated by jonathan Reese) A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. “A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. “An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds-the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.” The Grownupby gillian flynn ” Two hours and Under Long Way Down By Jason Reynolds She's had to fight for what she has, and she'll fight to keep it.“From writing letters to going swimming, telling stories to finding lost buttons, Frog and Toad are always there for each other-just as best friends should be. Now Faiza has mere weeks to find $100,000. Faiza will have to tell him she spent it all. ![]() Creating the perfect life and raising the perfect family comes at a cost – and the money Tom put aside has gone. Something will come along, and in the meantime, they can live off their savings. When her husband Tom loses his job in finance, he stays calm. You'd never guess, seeing her at the trendy kids' parties and the leisurely coffee mornings, that her childhood was spent being bullied and being embarrassed of her poor Pakistani immigrant parents. She's learned to crack their subtle codes, speak their language of fashion and vacations and haircuts. It took a few years, but now the snobbish white mothers who mistook her for the nanny treat her as one of their own. ![]()
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