When her mother has the chance to establish an eye clinic for the poor in Cairo, Egypt, seventeen-year-old Caroline reluctantly gives up her plans for a summer spent with her best friend and boyfriend and instead moves to Cairo, where she encounters a culture and city that enchant her and a charming boy who challenges her thoughts on love, faith, and privilege.
Though she has her doubts, Lacie follows her best friend Jenna into a fast-moving lifestyle in order to be cool and popular with the boys, but when Jenna's friendship turns fierce, Lacie's perfect world comes crashing down. Reprint.
"University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? To Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda; Chie, Miwako's best friend; and Fumi, Ryusei's older sister, Miwako was more than the blunt, no-nonsense person she projected to the world. Heartbroken, Ryusei begs Chie to take him to the village where Miwako spent her final days. While he is away, Fumi receives an unexpected guest at their shared apartment in Tokyo, increasingly fearful that Miwako's death may ruin what is left of her brother's life. Expanding on the beautifully crafted world of Rainbirds, Clarissa Goenawan gradually pierces through a young woman's careful faðcade, unmasking her most painful secrets"--
A Journey To Infinite Possibilities tells the tale of Niki Sanders, who being dissatisfied with life itself, journeys to a planet named Zedius, which is considered to be the Perfect World. Summary Of The Book The Perfect World: A Journey To Infinite Possibilities is a book that begins with introducing the readers to Niki Sanders, and her life of complete dissatisfaction. Niki's job does not satisfy her in any way, and even her relationships in life seem to be going nowhere. As a result, she secludes herself from the outside world. However, she soon decides to break free of all these inhibitions, and goes into the forest, where she meets two souls who belong to a Perfect World known as Zedius, which is on the other side of the universe. These evolved souls take Niki to Zedius, and help her to discover her real self. This event marks the beginning of her journey to self-discovery. Niki is tested at several points in the story, as the inhabitants of the Perfect World try to discover whether she is an intruder or not. This includes passing through various check-posts, and magnetic fields along the way. While on this journey, she comes face to face with varied emotions, which include redemption, power, friendship, and purpose. This sci-fiction promises to provide its readers with a journey that brings about spiritual awareness along with providing them with spiritual wisdom. The three hundred pages of this book are filled with action, and adventure that promise to keep the readers gripped all through the story. The Perfect World: A Journey To Infinite Possibilities is a self-help book, packed with magic realism, and serves as a good read. About the Author Priya Kumar is an Internationally Acclaimed Motivational Speaker and Bestselling Author of 12 Inspirational Books. In her 25 years journey with Motivational Speaking, she has worked with over 2000 Multi-National Corporates across 47 countries and has touched over 3 million people through her workshops and books, and is the only Woman Speaker in India to have done so. She is the only Indian Author who has won 37 International Awards for her books.
The big-hearted story of a small-town girl who discovers how wide the world really is during one transformative summer. Perfect for fans of Susane Colasanti and Sarah Dessen. Penny loves her small-town Florida life, and she has her future mapped out. She’s going to community college after graduation to stay close to home and her best friend, Faye. She’ll take over the family diner that her dad has been managing since her mother died. And one day, she’ll marry her high school sweetheart, Logan. But when she unexpectedly lands a scholarship to a prestigious summer theater camp, she is thrust into a world of competition and self-doubt. And suddenly, her future gets a little hazy. As she meets new friends, including Chase, a talented young actor with big-city dreams, she begins to realize that maybe the life everyone (including her) expects her to lead is not the one she was meant to have. From the acclaimed author of The Night We Said Yes and Autofocus.
Introduces the plants and animals of seven habitats: rain forest, savanna, evergreen forest, arctic, desert, coral reef, and wetland. In each habitat, a panoramic view invites the reader to find a variety of wildlife hidden on the double-page.
In a Perfect World is critically acclaimed writer Laura Kasischke’s new novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices we make when we have no choices left. Kasischke, the author of The Life Before Her Eyes, tells the story of Jiselle, a young flight attendant who’s just settled into a fairy tale life with her new husband and stepchildren. But as a mysterious new illness spreads rapidly throughout the country, she begins to realize that her marriage, her stepchildren, and their perfect world are all in terrible danger . . .
Heddy Partridge was never my friend. I have to start with that. Heddy Partridge was never my friend because I was pretty, popular, clever and blonde and my friends were pretty, popular, clever and generally blonde, too. Heddy Partridge was none of these things. Laura Hamley is the woman who has everything: a loving and successful husband, two beautiful children, an expensive home and a set of equally fortunate friends. But Laura's perfect world is suddenly threatened when she receives an unwelcome phone call from Mrs Partridge, mother of Heddy - the girl Laura and her friends bullied mercilessly at school. Heddy has been hospitalized following a mental breakdown, and Mrs Partridge wants Laura's help to get her released. As Laura reluctantly gets drawn back into the past, she is forced to face the terrible consequences of her cruelty. But, as her secrets are revealed, so too is another even more devastating truth, and the perfect world Laura has so carefully constructed for herself begins to fall apart. This Perfect World is the debut novel from a brilliant dark new voice.
"Half the Perfect World tells the story of the post-war international artist community that formed on the Greek island of Hydra. Most famously, it included renowned singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and his partner Marianne Ihlen, as well as many other artists and writers including the Australian literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston, who fostered this fabled colony.Drawing on many previously unseen letters, manuscripts and diaries, and richly illustrated by the eyewitness photographs of LIFE magazine photo-journalist James Burke, Half the Perfect World reveals the private lives and relationships of the Hydra expatriates. It charts the promise of a creative life that drew many of them to the island, and documents the fracturing of the community as it came under pressure from personal ambitions and wider social changes. For all the unrealised youthful ambitions, internal strife and personal tragedy that attends this story, the authors nonetheless find that the example of these writers, dreamers and drifters continues to resonate and inspire." -- Publisher's website.
This science-fiction novel is a combination of two separate, connected stories creating a mix of themes and culture. Focusing on the themes of utopia and a lost race, it explores the aftermath of the great war. Follow the story of the Forsyth cousins and their journey into an underground cave system which causes them to miss the entire war and find adventure with aliens.
