![]() ![]() Take this day for your own but remember that God gave it, and try to learn some good thing. If the characters sometimes come across as one-note, Lizzie’s innate resilience and determination are memorable and inspiring. The Golden Windows, a Short Story by Laura E. The novel’s Southern dialect and Depression-era setting are solidly evoked-debut author Golden pulled from her own family’s history to create Lizzie’s story. Between the pressures of working, keeping up her grades, staying one step ahead of her nemesis at school, and hiding the truth about her home life (Lizzie fears her mother will be sent to an institution and she herself to an orphanage), Lizzie is too busy to see that she may need to reach out for help. ![]() Her best friend Ben is supportive but in a similar situation, and he grows tired of Lizzie’s single-minded focus on her own problems. Stuck with an overdue mortgage and a mother paralyzed by depression, Lizzie believes she just has to hold it together until her father returns, as she is sure he will. Set in 1932 in small-town Alabama, Golden’s folksy debut details the struggles and injustices facing 11-year-old Lizzie Hawkins after her father loses his job and leaves town. ![]()
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Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido, both at the discretion of his former partner Julia. ' Big Sky is laced with Atkinson's sharp, dry humour, and one of the joys of the Brodie novels has always been that they are so funny' ( Observer) This is book number 5 in the Jackson Brodie series. ![]() ![]() THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- THE RETURN OF JACKSON BRODIE, 'LIKE ALL GOOD DETECTIVES, A HERO FOR MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE' ( The Times) Big Sky (Jackson Brodie 5) (Paperback) By Kate Atkinson Other Books in Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s the writer calling out problems and expressing how damaging they are. When writers use slurs to foreground certain social issues, and draw the reader out of their comfort zone to showing why said issue is not acceptable, that’s a positive way of tackling inequalities and injustice. 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It focuses upon four young women, who are ‘struggling to survive’, and are ‘balancing on the knife-edge of survival’ on the fringes of the city. If I Had Your Face is set in contemporary Seoul, South Korea. ![]() ![]() In Baby, the prequel to the Species Intervention #6609, Netty is a naïve teenage farm girl given in marriage to an older brutal opportunist disguised as a prominent citizen during the Prohibition years in Sussex County, New Jersey. ![]() Thriller, horror, science fiction and fantasy all in one, the series is a gripping psychological exploration of how the inherent greed and evil of man is dooming planet Earth and its inhabitants. It encompasses tender love between divergent species, political downfalls and acts of unspeakable violence. Contains UNSPEAKABLE HUMAN VIOLENCE.Īlien Species Intervention #6609, is an alien apocalyptic saga spanning 200 years from the Prohibition to the distant future. ****WARNING**** This book is NOT for sensitive readers. ![]() |