![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just as he makes unusual, morally dubious friends, Theo faces challenges to his well-being from a number of equally quirky and morally complex antagonists, including Bobo Silver, a soft-spoken but intimidating and flamboyantly-dressed Loan Shark, and Lucius Reeve, a mysterious and manipulative blackmailer tracking Theo's movements. All the while Theo makes a number of quirky and unusual friends, including a charming old antiques craftsman Hobie, an irreverent and anti-intellectual globe-trotting European druggie named Boris, and his true love Pippa - every bit as broken and confused as himself. When young Theo Decker's mother is killed by Western Terrorists in an attack on a New York art museum, Theo finds himself moving between a variety of guardians, including his mother's wealthy but emotionally distant friends and an abusive father with a gambling compulsion. ![]() Like The Secret History, The Goldfinch is an introspective, confessional neo-romanticist novel that focuses on aesthetic beauty, guilt, and the inner thoughts of the protagonist against a troubled situation filled with strikingly picaresque secondary characters. The Goldfinch is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 novel by Donna Tartt, the author of The Secret History. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now streaming on Netflix as The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself. In the tradition of Patrick Ness and Markus Zusak, Half Bad is a gripping tale of alienation and the indomitable will to survive, a story that will grab hold of you and not let go until the very last page. But how can Nathan find his father when his every action is tracked, when there is no one safe to trust, not even family, not even the girl he loves? Half Lies by Sally Green: 9780698198395 : Books Set in the same magical world as Sally Greens internationally beloved and acclaimed Half Bad series, this is the journal of Gabriels younger sister. Trapped in a cage, beaten and handcuffed, he must escape before his seventeenth birthday, at which point he will receive three gifts from his father and come into his own as a witch-or else he will die. Both groups of witches see Nathan as their greatest threat-or their greatest weapon. Nathan's father is the world’s most powerful and cruel witch, and his mother is dead. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live alongside humans, one sixteen-year-old boy is trapped between the two sides. “A bewitching new thriller.”- The Wall Street Journal “An enthralling fantasy in the Harry Potter tradition.”- Time magazine Kept in a cage by the Council of Fairborn witches, who believe he is destined to follow the same destructive path as his father, Nathan must find a way to unlock his full powers before his seventeenth birthday, or face madness and death. The inspiration for the Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself Nathan Byrn is the illegitimate son of the worlds most dangerous witch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Geryon is introduced as a young boy, walking to school with his "bigger and older" (23) brother, whom will later bully and sexually abuse Geryon. The novel begins with an epigraph by Emily Dickinson in the form of a poem about a volcano. 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He has his own ways of doing things and is seen be his superiors as a loose cannon. Salvo Montalbano is a typical Sicilian chock full of all of the idiosyncrasies and above all else good detective work. They are detective novels intertwined with humour, and social comment. AS you would expect much of the action takes place on the island of Sicily. The novels are written in a mixture of Italian and Sicilian dialects. Inspector Salvo Montalbano is a Sicilian fictional character that was created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri. Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories ![]() The Smell of the Night / Scent of the Night ![]() ![]() But her grandmother is quickly disappearing into the shadows of Alzheimer’s and Ellie must act fast if she wants to uncover the truth of her family’s history. Of lost love and deep regret . . .Įach piece that unlocks the story seems to unlock part of Ellie too-where she came from and who she is becoming. 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