A dizzying prose about body dysmorphia and anorexia, This Impossible Light is a short prose novel unlike any other. It has an interesting style of poetic workspace while telling the story of a short novel. However, the spacing does not help with the story, and the length of the entire book is likely less than one hundred pages without the spacing.
Won, the first Asian American basketball player in the NBA, rose to stardom as one of the best players on the team. A Korean American TV producer, Carrie is working to get Kdramas onto the American stage. Won wants to be a basketball star and renew his temporary contract with the New York Knicks, while Carrie wants to bring representative Korean shows to America. However, extreme racism is a hurdle for both Won and Carrie in their journey along with other life issues involving the relationships of their friends, Carrie’s sister’s cancer, and more.
The main character in the book's name is Hazel and she gets diagnosed with cancer. While being a cancer patient she meets and falls in love with a boy named Augustus Waters, who she meets from her cancer support group. Throughout the story a relationship between Hazel and Augustus develops. Augustus then finds a way to make her dying wish to come true. He takes her to see her favorite author, who wrote the book An Imperial Affliction which she is obsessed with.
Elisabeth is an apprentice librarian in a library full of grimoires, which talk and can be used by sorcerers to perform magic. When a grimoire is damaged, they come to life as ink monsters which wardens protect the world from. Elisabeth hopes to become a warden one day, but when Elisabeth is accused of sabotage to her library, she is taken to the capital by sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn and his demon Silas.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second book in the Harry Potter series. It follows 12-year-old Harry Potter through his second year at Hogwarts. It’s turning out to be a great year until the attacks start. Will Harry find out who’s behind the attacks before it’s too late?
The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson is the thrilling conclusion to the Truly Devious trilogy. Steeped in mystery and suspense, the story follows amateur detective Stevie Bell as she continues her quest to solve the decades-old cold case surrounding the Ellingham Academy. In this final installment, Stevie faces mounting pressure as she inches closer to uncovering the truth behind the mysterious deaths at the academy.
Both Laurel, Belly, and Steven, and Jeremiah and Conrad are distraught after the death of Susannah. The relationships between everyone have become strained and unfamiliar. But, when Belly gets a call from Jeremiah that Conrad has disappeared from school, she springs at the chance to help her boys.
At the start of the book we are introduced to a young baseball player named Roy Hobbs. He is an up-and-coming baseball prodigy with many scouts and professional players looking his way. Then unexpectedly the woman whom he is with shoots him which injures him badly. This sets back his career for more than a decade. Now, Roy faces trials and tribulations as he has to go through a baseball career as the oldest rookie in the league. Throughout his time, he starts to make friends both good and bad that impact him as a person and a player.
Posted by John David Anderson is a fiction book, in the realistic fiction genre. The book is about Frost, the main character, and his group of friends overcoming many challenges. They get a new friend, they almost lose one, and they overcome various amounts of bullying.
After their mysterious appearance, the men in rat masks answer none of the questions given to them. No one seems to be keen to ask questions when they provide food and shelter though, in a secret city underground. But who can explain the masks everyone wears? Or the disappearance of everyone assigned maintenance duty? OR most importantly where have all the children gone?
