5/31/2023 0 Comments Husky by Justin Sayre![]() ![]() Sayre, a master storyteller in the coming-of-age genre, asks readers to confront superficial assumptions about gender and beauty, and breathes new life into the canon of middle-grade realistic fiction. ![]() She teaches Sophie new lessons about her family and heritage, while also challenging her to rethink how she feels about friends, boys, and even her sense of place in the Brooklyn neighborhood where she lives. When her mother's alcohol addiction spirals out of control, Sophie's Auntie Amara steps in to help. Though she appears confident, stylish, and easygoing at school, Sophie lives a nightmare at home. Sayre details the private and public life of a thirteen-year-old burdened with far more than the middle-school adjective of Pretty. Sophie's perspective on what being pretty really means changes drastically in the second adjective-busting novel by the author of Husky, Justin Sayre. ![]() "Students who might not yet be ready for Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give will find an equally compelling narrator and story in Pretty." - VOYA Reviews " powerful story of growth and change, brimming with honesty and hope." - Publishers Weekly Husky Husky audiobook (Unabridged) By Justin Sayre Listen to a Sample Format audiobook Edition Unabridged Author Justin Sayre Narrator Justin Sayre Publisher Books on Tape Release 22 September 2015 Subjects Juvenile Fiction Juvenile Literature LGBTQIA+ (Fiction) Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. "Coming-of-age never looked so beautiful." - Kirkus (Starred Review) ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Reviews of the great alone![]() There is no one to save them this far from civilization.Īt once an epic story of human survival and an intimate portrait of a family tested beyond endurance, The Great Alone, offers a glimpse into a vanishing way of life in America. ![]() On their small piece of land, miles from anyone, Leni and her mother, Cora, learn what all Alaskan homesteaders learn: they are on their own. ![]() ![]() As the vast Alaskan landscape grows smaller and smaller in the darkness, Ernt's fragile mental state deteriorates, and the dangers outside of their remote homestead pale in comparison to the danger within. In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Leni Allbright's volatile, unpredictable father, Ernt, a former POW, loses another job, he makes an impulsive, desperate decision: he will move the family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the land in a spectacular wilderness.Īt first, the eighteen hour sunlit Alaskan summer days and the generosity of the locals make up for the family's lack of preparation and dwindling resources, but winter in Alaska will reveal their every weakness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Named One of the Hottest Reads of Summer 2022 by Today ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ USA Today ∙ SheReads ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ BookBub ∙ Bustle ∙and more! "A radiant debut." - Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments The Kitáb-i-Íqán by Bahá'u'lláh![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The one who ponders over that book and grasps its full significance will obtain a clear insight into the old scriptures and appreciate the true Mission of the Bab and Baha’u’llah. He then introduces the Bab and His Message, and applies to that new Revelation the same standards he uses to verify the truth of the previous Prophets. In doing so, Baha’u’llah reinforces the oneness of God’s Divine Manifestations and, for readers, the validity of their own religion. Written by Baha’u’llah during His exile to Baghdad, and before He publicly announced His own station and Mission, the Iqan surveys the lives and sufferings of the Prophets of the past, validates Their Missions and the common features of Their Faiths. If you’ve ever wondered what the most important book of Baha’u’llah is-the one from which you might gain a better understanding of the basic beliefs and spiritual significance of the Baha’i Faith-then look no further than the Kitab-i-Iqan (“The Book of Certitude”). ![]() |