![]() ![]() By the time you read this, I will probably be dead. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Urn:lcp:waystoliveforeve0000nich:lcpdf:236194be-8a30-4ffd-8b66-6a2cbc2f7153 From award-winning author Sally Nicholls, her debut novel about a boys last months with leukemia. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. ![]() It won the 2008 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, 2008 Glen Dimplex (Irish) New Writers Award, 2008 German Luchs des Jahres and 2009 Bristol-based Concorde Children's Book Award. The author's debut novel, it was written when Nicholls was 23 years old. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 03:04:07 Boxid IA1813715 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Ways to Live Forever is a 2008 children's novel by Sally Nicholls, first published in 2008. ![]()
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Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. She knows that if she ventures through that door, she may never come back. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and papery skin are waiting for Coraline to join them there. ![]() ![]() It's the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. There is something strange about Coraline's new home. Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell 3 Books Collection Box Set ![]() ![]() ![]() Kristin’s love and loyalty for her foolish husband is greatly tested and she learns the hard way what challenges await her and what sacrifices will be required of her. She atones for the sins of her youth and rises to the challenges of raising a large family and running an estate while married to an irresponsible and impulsive man. In “The Wife,”, Kristin finally faces adult responsibilities and concerns as she makes a life with her husband. 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Colette wrote the screenplay for the 1951 film adaptation of the novel. ![]() ![]() Olivia was dedicated to the memory of Strachey’s friend Virginia Woolf and published to acclaim in 1949. Marie Souvestre, whose influence lived on through former students like Natalie Barney and Eleanor Roosevelt. “Although not strictly autobiographical, Olivia draws on the author’s experiences at finishing schools run by the charismatic Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Dorothy Strachey’s classic Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. “Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (“I had been replaced by a younger model. Out here, a dark-skinned woman’s traditional hair color is honey blonde.”) “Player” tells the story of Kaling being seduced and dumped by a female friend in L.A. ![]() In “How to Look Spectacular: A Starlet’s Confessions,” Kaling gives her tongue-in-cheek secrets for surefire on-camera beauty, (“Your natural hair color may be appropriate for your skin tone, but this isn’t the land of appropriate–this is Hollywood, baby. In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it’s falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, or most important, believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you’re constantly reminded that no one looks like you. ![]() From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a collection of essays that are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some topics (like plot, dialogue, or location) will appear familiar to most novel readers, while others (meta-narrative, prolepsis, amplification) will open readers' eyes to new ways of understanding and appreciating the writer's craft. He highlights how these acclaimed authors use some of the basic elements of fiction. Coetzee's Disgrace, Don DeLillo's Underworld, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Patricia Highsmith's Ripley under Ground, Ian McEwan's Atonement, John le Carré's The Constant Gardener, Philip Roth's The Human Stain, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth. 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