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![]() Against the changeable turquoise-to-blue-gray sea and white sky, the blazing-orange hair of Molly, Firebeard and Bertha makes them centers of attention, and readers will notice a black cat becoming Molly's silent ally. ![]() Instead, Molly sends messages in empty rum bottles until her mother, the operatically outsize Barbarous Bertha, arrives with an imposing and equally scurvy lot of pirate women. Sets a precedent for this feisty heroine, do not expect Molly to defeat her kidnappers single-handed. Funke and Meyer, whose The Princess Knight you'd cry like a baby!" Molly snarls, to the pirates' hearty but short-lived amusement. Like a Little Red Riding Hood of the high seas, Molly is sailing a skiff to her grandmother's house when she is snared "like a herring" and tossed aboard the Haddock for ransom. shake like jelly." But they meet their match in Molly, a small but sturdy girl whose thick auburn ponytails rival the Captain's bushy beard. ![]() ![]() Captain Firebeard, helmsman Morgan O'Meany and the crew of the Horrible Haddock make "the knees of honest seafaring folk. ![]() ![]() History’s consummate innovator and most creative thinker. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Ben Franklin’s amazing life, showing how the most fascinating Founding Father helped forge the American national identity. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography of Albert Einstein-also the basis for the ten-part National Geographic series starring Geoffrey Rush-shows how Einstein’s scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. ![]() Isaacson’s portrait touched millions of readers. The story of the roller-coaster life and intense creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. The “enthralling” ( The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of legendary Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. ![]() ![]() “If anybody in America understands genius, it’s Walter Isaacson.” - SalonĬelebrated historian, journalist, and bestselling author Walter Isaacson’s biography collection of geniuses now available in one boxed set-the perfect gift for history lovers everywhere. ![]() This exclusive boxed set from beloved New York Times bestselling author Walter Isaacson features his definitive biographies: Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci. ![]() ![]() ![]() They married in 1978 and lived together in Delhi, and then Goa, before they separated and divorced in 1982. She then studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, where she met architect Gerard da Cunha. Roy attended school at Corpus Christi, Kottayam, followed by the Lawrence School, Lovedale, in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. ![]() When she was five, the family moved back to Kerala, where her mother started a school. For some time, the family lived with Roy's maternal grandfather in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. When she was two, her parents divorced and she returned to Kerala with her mother and brother. Early lifeĪrundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India, to Mary Roy, a Malayali Jacobite Syrian Christian women's rights activist from Kerala and Rajib Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea plantation manager from Calcutta. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. From the BBC programme Bookclub, 2 October 2011. ![]() ![]() ![]() She maneuvers skillfully, applying all she has learned to come out on top, no matter how dramatically the scenes change. ![]() Winter knows the Brooklyn streets like she knows the curves of her own body. We lived in the projects but we were cool with that. No slum jewelry, cheap shoes, or knockoff designer stuff. And her Pops lets her know she deserves the best. Quick witted, sexy, businessminded, and fashionable, Winter knows no restrictions. Ghetto born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug dealing family. ![]() In a stunning first novel, renowned hip hop artist, writer, and activist Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life with a powerful and utterly unforgettable tale. I came busting into the world during one of New York’s worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No matter at what age, your focus should be on eating a balanced, nutrient-rich diet and getting enough physical exercise to maintain a healthy weight and build bone density. Related article: 8 tips to lose weight healthily without dietingĪ balanced diet and physical exercise in your 20s If you are a man in your 20s, weigh 60kg, and hold a sedentary job, the recommended energy allowance is: If you are a woman in your 20s, weigh 55kg, and hold a sedentary job, the recommended energy allowance is: Any unburned calories end up as fat in the body. 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After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. ![]() But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are a few mistakes, but so minor compared to the overall excellence that I've no hesitation at all in giving this five stars and will definitely listen again (and again) with pleasure. His narration has good animation without the flatness that sometimes happens when there are long passages without dialogue and his voice is very pleasant to listen to. Thomas Judd is excellent at voices, male and female, and they are all distinct and excellently done. ![]() I was really happy to see a new version was going to be available and waited eagerly for its release. I love Georgette Heyer for her light humorous escapist tales, and The Unknown Ajax has always been one of my favourites - but the narrator for it on the previous version available on Audible was so bad at women's voices I could never listen to it beyond the first couple of chapters, though I tried a few times. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This one is well after that, when they’re sort of falling out of love. So many romance novels or romcoms are of a couple who are first meeting and starting to fall in love. Well, she successfully brought it back to my mind, and it was available at the library right away so the fates were aligned! And, oh my, was this exactly what I needed at the moment! I read Angelica’s review and that reminded me of how I had wanted to read this book when it came out, before it fell off my radar. We don’t need to say sweet words in person because we know what Real Love is. On Valentine’s Day we sat in separate rooms and tagged each other in gushing Facebook posts. Because now that they have nothing to lose, they’re finally being themselves–and having fun with the last person they expect: each other. But with the countdown looming to the wedding that may or may not come to pass, Naomi finds her resolve slipping. When Naomi discovers that Nicholas, too, has been feigning contentment, the two of them go head-to-head in a battle of pranks, sabotage, and all-out emotional warfare. Naomi wants out, but there’s a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the nonrefundable wedding bill. ![]() And she is miserably and utterly sick of him. ![]() They’re preparing for their lavish wedding that’s three months away. Naomi Westfield has the perfect fiancé: Nicholas Rose holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family any bride would love to be a part of. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Up, Up & Away by Jonah Keri, a history of the Montreal Expos, made the list for baseball fans. As close as it gets to autobiography, the Star said, “It’s about two sisters, Elfrieda, a beautiful, accomplished, world-famous pianist who wants to die, and Yolandi, her younger sister, who really wants her to stay alive.” Next is All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, which has been garnering accolades and creating buzz as much for Toews’ writing as for the topic she tackles. Pigeons atop a restaurant sign are ‘crammed together like a group of teenagers making trouble on a bench.’” The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill, whose writing in this book was, the Star said, “like a sort of demented angel with an uncanny knack for metaphor. ![]() If you’re looking for some holiday reading this summer, Amazon.ca has released three lists of its top books of 2014 so far. ![]() |