![]() ![]() What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. ![]() It is where he was born and grew up it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience-and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. ![]()
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In October, 1960, Jane Goodall found a chimp that she had named David Greybeard squatting on a termite mound. ![]() ![]() Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. 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Stålenhag's two earlier art books ( Tales From The Loop and Things From The Flood) exist for me, in a very real way, like an alternate history of a place I've never been, but miss like a second home. ![]() I see his world in the shapes all around me. His art (photorealistic, washed out, laced in neon or icicles, nostalgic and futuristic both at the same time) gets into my eyes and stays there. The stories crawl into my brain and mess with my memory of history, time and place. Most of the time, when I read a Simon Stålenhag book, I spend days scanning the trees around my house, looking for a shudder in the leaves for the hump of a giant robot rising over the treeline, just beginning to stand. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() But it’s hard, now, not to read the “Wyfe to Crookback” episode as being prophetic. Getting the past right-or wrong-has always been a theme in Mantel’s fiction, much of which features characters who, like Emma and Ginny, struggle to come to terms with histories they’d rather not talk about. It’s clearly a work of historical fiction, the archly period title, “Wyfe to Crookback,” traced in “florid gold script.” (The “wyfe” in question is Anne Neville, unhappy queen to the legendarily hunchbacked Richard III.) Although the woman, Emma, is a physician, she evidently knows a thing or two about late-Plantagenet domestic architecture as she examines the cover art, she notes that the manor house behind the heroine (“a svelte woman, with a small crown perched upon her wimple”) has “anachronistic chimney stacks.” The vulgar font, the clueless art work, even the “fat” paperback’s size, with its intimation of a future at the beach: all this is meant to indict the middlebrow taste of Emma’s fellow-passenger, Ginny, a posh neighbor who happens to be the wyfe of Emma’s lover. ![]() In the opening pages of Hilary Mantel’s 1994 novel, “ A Change of Climate,” a woman in a railway carriage stares disapprovingly at the cover of the cheesy paperback her travelling companion is reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hauck brings us a sweet romance where the power of love and the miracle of faith promise hope and healing in a beautiful Victorian home known affectionately as The Memory House. Yet no matter how much she longs to love again, she is hindered by a secret she can never share. When she runs into her former high school friend Don Callahan, she begins to yearn for change. But Beck can't even remember him.ĭecades earlier, widow Everleigh Applegate lives a steady, uneventful life with her widowed mother after a tornado ripped through Waco, Texas, and destroyed her new, young married life. Matters of the heart only become more complicated when she runs into handsome Bruno Endicott, a sports agent who has never forgotten their connection as teenagers. When a mysterious letter arrives informing Beck that she's inherited a house along Florida's northern coast, she discovers something there that will change her life forever. ![]() Eighteen years later, she's a tough New York City cop burdened with a damaging secret, suspended for misconduct, and struggling to get her life in order. ![]() She did better naming her baby, thankfully. My only regret is the awful name Beck gave the poor little dog. Between Waco TX and Fernandino Beach FL, the lives that intertwined made a rich reading experience. When Beck Holiday lost her father in the North Tower on 9/11, she also lost her memories of him. This was a wonderful book you read and I'm sure the memory of it will not be forgotten soon. The inspirational story of two women whose lives have been destroyed by disaster but find healing in a special house. ![]() |