"All Your Perfects" is a contemporary romance novel by Colleen Hoover. The story follows Quinn and Graham, a couple whose marriage is struggling under the weight of infertility and other relationship issues. The narrative alternates between the present, where Quinn and Graham are in the midst of a trial separation, and the past, where the reader sees how they fell in love and the challenges they faced. As the story unfolds, Quinn and Graham must confront the painful truths about themselves and their relationship, and decide whether to fight for their marriage or let it go. "All Your Perfects"...
"The Roommate" is a novel by Rosie Danan that tells the story of two women, Clara and Josh, who become roommates and eventually fall in love. Clara is a New Yorker with a wealthy and conservative family, while Josh is a struggling actor who works as a stripper to make ends meet. The two couldn't be more different, but their attraction is undeniable. As they navigate their relationship, they face challenges from Clara's family, Josh's career, and their own insecurities. Through it all, they learn to trust each other and themselves, and discover that love can come from unexpected places. With a...
"Tender is the Flesh" is a dystopian novel by Agustina Bazterrica that takes place in a world where animals are extinct, and humans have resorted to cannibalism to meet their dietary needs. The story follows Marcos, a man who works at a processing plant that turns human beings into food products for consumption. As Marcos becomes increasingly desensitized to the horrors of his job, he begins to question the moral implications of his actions. His doubts are heightened when he comes into contact with a woman who has been bred specifically to be consumed as meat. Throughout the novel,...
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" is a science fiction novel by Charles Sheffield that explores the potential consequences of advanced technology and artificial intelligence on human society. The story is set in the 22nd century, in a world where technology has advanced to the point where people can upload their consciousness into virtual reality environments after death. The main character, Joshua, is a brilliant engineer who is tasked with creating a virtual reality simulation of a 20th-century city as part of a research project. However, Joshua's personal life is complicated by the...
"In the Time of the Butterflies" is a compelling novel by Julia Alvarez that follows the lives of the four Mirabal sisters - Patria, Minerva, Maria Teresa, and Dedé - who lived in the Dominican Republic during the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. The story is based on real events and provides a unique perspective on the political turmoil and social injustice of the time. The novel begins with the youngest sister, Dedé, as the lone survivor reflecting on the tragic fate of her sisters, who became known as the "Butterflies" due to their code names in the resistance movement against...
"Beloved" is a haunting and powerful novel that explores the devastating legacy of slavery on the human psyche. Written by Toni Morrison, the book tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who has escaped to freedom but is haunted by the memory of her past. Sethe is haunted both by the horrors of slavery and by the ghost of her own child, who she was forced to kill to prevent her from being captured and returned to slavery. When a mysterious young woman named Beloved appears in her life, Sethe is forced to confront the painful truths of her past and the impact they have had on her present. ...
An entertaining book for children from 9 years of age. Read interestingly and for adults. The book is like a cocktail of realism, an adventure novel and a fairy tale. Therefore, it is interesting to read. The main character of Stanley immediately arouses sympathy in the reader. How cunningly the author conveyed the concept of karma))), I do not particularly welcome it, because I do not believe in it and do not consider it necessary to instill it in children who need to learn to be responsible only for their actions, and not for their great-grandfathers. But all the same, the book is amazing:...
'Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy.' So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting...
The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. In the novel, the society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. In an effort to preserve order, the society also lacks any color, climate, terrain, and a true sense of equality. The protagonist of the story, a 12-year-old boy named Jonas, is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores...
A "semi-barbaric" king rules a land sometime in the past. Some of the king's ideas are progressive, but others cause people to suffer. One of the king's innovations is the use of a public trial by ordeal as "an agent of poetic justice", with guilt or innocence decided by the result of chance. A person accused of a crime is brought into a public arena and must choose one of two doors. Behind one door is a lady whom the king has deemed an appropriate match for the accused; behind the other is a fierce, hungry tiger. Both doors are heavily soundproofed to prevent the accused from hearing what is...
Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the early twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity. Invisible Man won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953, making Ellison the first African American writer to win the award. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Invisible Man 19th on its list of...
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude. The work was considered risqué by publishers because of its literary realism and strong themes. Crane – who was 22 years old at the time – financed the book's publication himself, although the original 1893 edition was printed under the pseudonym Johnston Smith. After the success of 1895's The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie was reissued in 1896 with considerable changes and...
Mosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, including such classics as “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Birthmark,” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” Herman Melville deemed Hawthorne the American Shakespeare, and Henry James wrote that his early tales possess “the element of simple genius, the quality of imagination. That is the real charm of Hawthorne’s writing—this purity and spontaneity and naturalness of fancy.”...
You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao pdf free download. MARCH 7 11:09 P.M. Don’t bother picking me up anymore. I can walk home. I did walk home. All five miles from the bus station, dragging an overstuffed carry-on with a broken wheel in the middle of the night. Sam kept trying to reach me. Twelve unread messages, seven missed calls, and one voice mail. But I ignored them all and kept walking. Reading these back again, I wish I hadn’t been so angry at him. I wish I had picked up the phone. Maybe then everything would be different....
The House on Mango Street is a 1984 novel by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros. Structured as a series of vignettes, it tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Based in part on Cisneros's own experience, the novel follows Esperanza over the span of one year in her life, as she enters adolescence and begins to face the realities of life as a young woman in a poor and patriarchal community. Elements of the Mexican-American culture and themes of social class, race, sexuality, identity, and gender are interwoven...
