![]() ![]() Upon first hearing the news, Mia objects to the idea of having to become a princess and having to rule over Genovia. Because of his illness and treatment, Mia is now Her Royal Highness of the country and the heir to the throne of Genovia. Because of this, he finally tells Mia a secret he, her mother, and her grandmother ("Grandmere") have been keeping from her for years: he is really the Prince of the fictional principality of Genovia. After being treated for testicular cancer, he is no longer able to have children. Her life changes drastically when her father comes for a visit. The Princess Diaries is a Young Adult book series by Meg Cabot following the exploits of Amelia "Mia" Thermopolis, a teenager who goes to Albert Einstein High School and lives with her strongly liberal single mom. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He is befriended by Sena, a ghost who has offered to help. ![]() There is one problem: Maali cannot communicate with the living. He has seven moons to somehow communicate the location of the photographs to the two people he cares about most and trusts-his great love, DD, and his best friend Jaki, DD’s cousin-hoping they will know what to do with the photos. Under a bed in his home, Maali has hidden a box of photographs documenting the war, the killing of innocents and the complicity of those now in power: photographs that he believes, if published, will rock the country. ![]() The war is over but not the killings, as the government gets rid of those who threaten it. Maali worked as a photographer documenting the Sri Lankan civil war. Here they can wander as ghosts in the world for seven moons (seven days), after which they either move on to the Light or are forever stranded in the In Between. Souls arrive at a place called the In Between. It takes him a while to realize he is dead, and he has no idea how he died. Maali Almeida, a gay Sri Lankan photographer, wakes up to find himself dead, his soul in a place that seems like a government office. All stories conclude with a fade to black.” Many are born to homes with books, many grow up in the swamps of war. “All stories are recycled and all stories are unfair. ![]() ![]() ![]() I went into Blackberry Winter with high expectations since I absolutely loved Sarah Jio’s debut novel, The Violets of March. ![]() ![]() When Claire is assigned to cover an unusual snowstorm that mirrors a storm that took place back in 1933, she uncovers a story about a missing boy, a story that links her life to Vera’s in many ways. We will be voting on a book to read for the March book club tomorrow!īlackberry Winter follows two women, Vera Ray, a single mother in 1933 trying to make end’s meet, and Claire Aldridge, a journalist in the middle of marital strife in 2010. It’s time to discuss Blackberry Winter, the winning book for the February PBF Book Club! ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the finest example of Kristin Hannah's ability to weave together the deeply personal with the universal. With her trademark combination of elegant prose and deeply drawn characters, Kristin Hannah has delivered an enormously powerful story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the remarkable and enduring strength of women.Ībout the highest stakes a family can face and the bonds that can tear a community apart, this is an audiobook as spectacular and powerful as Alaska itself. Utterly unprepared for the weather and the isolation, but welcomed by the close-knit community, they fight to build a home in this harsh, beautiful wilderness.Īt once an epic story of human survival and love and an intimate portrait of a family tested beyond endurance, The Great Alone offers a glimpse into a vanishing way of life in America. A story of a family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world, it is also a story of young and enduring love.Ĭora Allbright and her husband, Ernt, a recently returned Vietnam veteran scarred by the war, uproot their 13-year-old daughter, Leni, to start a new life in Alaska. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While there's no magic to be found in that book, there's plenty to be found in the others out this week: A Discovery of Witches author Deborah Harkness returns to the world of the supernatural with a new series about vampires young adult author Marie Lu is back with Wildcard, the sequel to her cyberpunk adventure Warcross and Carlos Ruiz Zafón returns to the universe of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in his newest novel, The Labyrinth of the Spirits. Rowling - is back with the fourth mystery in the Comoran Strike series, Lethal White. Luckily for you and me and everyone who hopes to maintain some level of sanity in these trying times, books are the perfect escape - and this week's new book releases are utterly transportive. this week, you probably need a mental break. Considering the news coming out of Washington D.C. ![]() |