Do we choose what to plant in our gardens? Or do the plants choose us? Learn about four common plants and the human desires they inspire: the apple and sweetness;… Do we choose what to plant in our gardens? Or do the plants choose us? Learn about four common plants and the human desires they inspire: the apple and sweetness; the tulip and beauty; marijuana and intoxication; and the potato and control. Pollan weaves an interesting tale with observations from philosophy, natural history, botany, and his own gardening experience. …
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Asimov’s Mysteries
A collection of short stories, each of which could equally well be described as science fiction and as a mystery. These stories are fun, amusing, and all the more charming… A collection of short stories, each of which could equally well be described as science fiction and as a mystery. These stories are fun, amusing, and all the more charming for being a little dated. A quick, easy read. …
One Crazy Summer
One Crazy Summer tells the story of an eleven-year-old girl and her younger sisters who travel from Brooklyn to Oakland, California to live with their mother for the summer. Their mother is unapproachable and the girls have a hard time adjusting to the new atmosphere. The three sisters are eager to build a relationship with their mother and are intrigued by her involvement with the Black Panther Party. What little they know of the Black Panthers …
Ash
Ash did a great job of portraying a queer relationship without putting it on a pedestal and had great girl power/amazing female leads!!… Ash did a great job of portraying a queer relationship without putting it on a pedestal and had great girl power/amazing female leads!! …
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
There are six things very wrong with my life: I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next two years. It is on my nose I have a three-year-old sister who may have peed somewhere in my room. In fourteen days the summer hols will be over and then it will be back to Stalag 14 and Oberfuhrer Frau Simpson and her bunch of sadistic teachers. I am very ugly and need to go into an ugly home. I…
Weetzie Bat
“Lanky lizards!” Block paints a off-beat world of magical realism through her lyrical prose. Weetzie Bat is a glittery, non-conformist teen living in L.A. She meets the coolest guy at… “Lanky lizards!” Block paints a off-beat world of magical realism through her lyrical prose. Weetzie Bat is a glittery, non-conformist teen living in L.A. She meets the coolest guy at school, Dirk, and her quest for “happily ever after” begins. After you fall in love with this fun and quirky book, there are six others in Block’s Dangerous Angel series. …
Coffee Will Make You Black
April Sinclair’s young adult novel tells the story of Stevie, a young black girl, living in Chicago in the late 60s/early 70s. Stevie has to deal with other people’s ignorance about race and sexuality as she comes into her own identity. Her mother wants her to use bleaching cremes to lighten her skin, but she’s becoming involved in the Afro-American Club at school and she begins to wear her hair natural. Stevie’s Grandma and her mama are strong i…
No Laughter Here
This novel explores the intimate friendship between friends Akilah and Victoria. Victoria suffers a tragedy that changes her life and her relationship with Akilah. This is an honest and accessible… This novel explores the intimate friendship between friends Akilah and Victoria. Victoria suffers a tragedy that changes her life and her relationship with Akilah. This is an honest and accessible book that explores real-life problems. …
The Book Thief
Liesel Meminger lives with her foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, in Munich, Germany. It’s 1939 and Liesel and her family are living under Nazi rule. Despite tremendous risk the Hubermanns house a Jewish man, Max. After Liesel endures her first tragedy books become a way of life for her. Zusak writes beautifully with hints of surrealism that make this story quite extraordinary. “Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully pl…
Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday
This book is written as a prose poem that the tells the story of American jazz singer, Billie Holiday’s life. De Veaux writes, “It was 1935. American was in between… This book is written as a prose poem that the tells the story of American jazz singer, Billie Holiday’s life. De Veaux writes, “It was 1935. American was in between wars. Harlem was between jobs and riots. Billie was between 20 and stardom.” …
The Giver
The Giver is a 1993 American young adult novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society but gradually appears… The Giver is a 1993 American young adult novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society but gradually appears more and more dystopian. …
The poet of Tolstoy Park
In 1925, given only a year to live by his doctor, Henry Stuart leaves his home and grown sons in Idaho to move to the woods on the eastern shore… In 1925, given only a year to live by his doctor, Henry Stuart leaves his home and grown sons in Idaho to move to the woods on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama, where he builds a round house and lives for more than two decades, while visitors make a pilgrimage to visit him on the property he names after Leo Tolstoy. Very quirky, yet lovable character. …
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