![]() ![]() Like so many who've suffered the pain of losing someone, Lowry considered - just passingly - how much better our existences might be if we didn't have memories at all. "And he said, 'Whatever happened to her?' And I had to tell him about her death." "And he said, 'I can't remember her name,' and I told him her name," she says. One day, she showed her father a photo of her sister, who died at the age of 28. ![]() "He didn't have Alzheimer's, but he began to lose pieces of his memory, the way people do as they age," she recalls. Lowry came up with the idea of a scary, sterile world where nearly everyone takes drugs to suppress their memories and emotions after her father was put in a nursing home. It's assigned reading in thousands of schools. ![]() The Giver swept up nearly every prestigious prize for young adult literature, including the Newbery Medal and the William Allen White Award. The movie adaptation opened this week and stars Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges. Refreshing, right? But it's also a world without memory, at least in the premise of Lois Lowry's 1993 novel The Giver. Just for a second, imagine a world without war, conflict or grief. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Giver Author Lois Lowry ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “Vividly written, a book that will, as intended, please the readers who hoped that Paulsen, like Brian, would ‘do it again. He's survived with only a hatchet before-now can Brian build a raft and navigate an unknown river?įor the first time it's not only Brian's survival that's at stake. Brian's only hope is to transport Derek a hundred miles down the river to a trading post. But a freak storm leaves Derek unconscious. The video (file) shared on this page is submitted by a user. This time Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will accompany him. From westgatelibrary September 12th, 2019. ![]() Two years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the government wants him to head back so they can learn what he did to stay alive. The government sends Brian back to the Canadian wilderness in this beloved follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen! ![]() ![]() Heartwrenching and hopeful, Traffick takes us on five separate but intertwined journeys through the painful challenges of recovery, rehabilitation, and renewal to forgiveness and love. ![]() In her bestselling novel, Tricks, Ellen Hopkins introduced us to five memorable characters tackling these enormous questions: Eden, the preacher’s daughter who turns tricks in Vegas and is helped into a child prostitution rescue Seth, the gay farm boy disowned by his father who finds himself without money or resources other than his own body Whitney, the privileged kid coaxed into the life by a pimp and whose dreams are ruined in a heroin haze Ginger, who runs away from home with her girlfriend and is arrested for soliciting an undercover cop and Cody, whose gambling habit forces him into the life, but who is shot and left for dead.Īnd now, in Traffick, these five are faced with the toughest question of all: Is there a way out? How these five teenagers face the aftermath of their decisions and experiences is the soul of this story that exposes the dark, ferocious underbelly of the child trafficking trade. Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this “sincere and moving” ( Booklist) companion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Tricks from Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank. ![]() ![]() ![]() An introduction, notes and appendices help to place the works in context for modern readers. This edition of the Revelations contains both the short text, which is mainly an account of the 'showings' themselves and Julian's initial interpretation of their meaning, and the long text, completed some twenty years later, which moves from vision to a daringly speculative theology.Įlizabeth Spearing's translation preserves Julian's directness of expression and the rich complexity of her thought. Written in a vigorous English vernacular, the Revelations are one of the most original works of medieval mysticism and have had a lasting influence on Christian thought. ![]() Through these 'showings', Christ's sufferings were revealed to her with extraordinary intensity, but she also received assurance of God's unwavering love for man and his infinite capacity for forgiveness. ![]() One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman as a classic of Medieval religious literatureĪfter fervently praying for a greater understanding of Christ's passion, Julian of Norwich, a fourteenth-century anchorite and mystic, experienced a series of divine revelations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The six children, whose ages range from fourteen to six years old, have escaped from the school. ![]() The children also have superhuman strength and vision in addition to a variety of supernatural gifts that are discovered throughout the story. Each kid knows how to fly and has many characteristics of a bird including a rapid heart rate, thin bones, and a voracious appetite. 1Īccording to Max, the 2% bird DNA has made a huge difference in each kid. "The six of us-me, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel-were made on purpose, by the sickest, most horrible 'scientists' you could possibly imagine." Prologue, p. Max, along with her adopted family of other genetically altered beings, is 98% human, 2% bird. The majority of the story is told by Max, a fourteen year old girl who was created at a school designed to create hybrid human beings. The Prologue gives instantaneous insight into the mind of a scared teenager who is literally fighting for her life. ![]() There is an immediate urgency in the tone of the narrator, begging the reader not to put the book down because to do so could result in dire consequences. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving till your next birthday." Prologue, p. The Prologue to James Patterson's Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment opens with the following line: "Congratulations. ![]() ![]() he The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Introduction Johnson described the book as "arresting and original". īen Ehrenreich described the work as "a powerful and painful book, clear-sighted, meticulous and damning". The End of the Myth won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, along with Anne Boyer's The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care. ![]() The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America is a book written by Greg Grandin, which won 2020's Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, on the role of the frontier from the American Revolution to the presidential election of 2016. 2019 book by Greg Grandin The End of the Myth ![]() ![]() ![]() Each year, five young fiction writers are selected as finalists by a reading committee of Young Lions members, writers, editors, and librarians. ![]() Click through on each book title for more information.Įstablished in 2001, The New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award is a $10,000 prize awarded each year to a writer age 35 or younger for a novel or a collection of short stories. Summaries provided via NYPL's catalog, which draws from multiple sources. Interested in more reading recommendations? Sign up for the Library's Book of the Day email. Learn more and download for iPad/iPhone and Android. Plus, new users who live in New York State can apply for a library card directly through the app. NYPL cardholders can find these books on SimplyE, the Library's free e-reader app. ![]() A dark tale inspired by a true case encountered by the author, as a police beat reporter follows the experiences of a young victim of domestic violence whose memory is further compromised by community perceptions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Battles will be fought, alliances will be forged, and the Resistance will be reborn. ![]() If hope is to survive, the Resistance must journey throughout the galaxy, seeking out more leaders-including those who, in days gone by, helped a nascent rebellion topple an empire. But names can only get you so far, and Leia's last desperate call for aid has gone unanswered.įrom the jungles of Ryloth to the shipyards of Corellia, the shadow of the First Order looms large, and those with the bravery to face the darkness are scattered and isolated. Finn, Poe, Rey, Rose, Chewbacca, Leia Organa-their names are famous among the oppressed worlds they fight to liberate. In the wake of their harrowing escape from Crait, what was once an army has been reduced to a handful of wounded heroes. Finn, Poe, Rey, Rose, Chewbacca, Leia Organa-their names are famous a. In this pivotal prequel to Star Wars- The Rise of Skywalker, the heroes of the Resistance-Poe Dameron, General Leia Organa, Rey, and Finn-must fight back from the edge of oblivion. ![]() ![]() ![]() These two have proved again and again that they’re willing to put themselves out there for somebody else’s sake. This book opens to an untouched snapshot of a real, live redeemed marriage and closes with hope and hunger for our own. Their summation of marriage: “It can be done. They are honest and forthright, never skirting a difficult issue instead, they offer hope, insight, and their own lives as examples of what God can accomplish. The Eldredges offer sound advice on topics such as the delights of companionship, understanding the enemy is Satan and not your spouse, finding your marriage’s mission, taboo topics, and, yes, sex. ![]() Christianity, they say, is a love story set amid war, with marriage “a living, breathing portrait laid out before the eyes of the world so that they might see the story of the ages.”įor them, marriage is the perfect storm that brings together basic differences in men and women, individual styles of relating, sin, and brokenness. The pair addressed men and women separately in Wild at Heart (John) and Captivating (Stasi) and now put that knowledge together in a book on marriage. The Eldredges’ newest book has bestseller written all over it. ![]() Love & War: Finding the Marriage You’ve Dreamed Of ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re looking for where to watch After We Fellright now, you can check out Amazon Video and other SVOD sites. When is After 3 coming out?Īfter 3 was released in the United States on Sept. The film adaption of After We Collided premiered in theaters in October 2020. There are five books in the After series: After, After We Collided, After We Fell, After Ever Happy, and Before. ![]() We were hoping to see the new After movie on Netflix in 2021, but that’s not going to happen now.įor those who don’t know, After is actually based on the novel of the same name by author Anna Todd. You can watch After We Fell on Netflix US in January 2022. After We Fellis coming to Netflix very soon! 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