A beautifully illustrated and insightful anthology to return to time and again. We all have days when we find ourselves in need of some positivity. In difficult times, the words of others can lift us up. Bright, joyful art to inspire hopefulness is combined with carefully curated poems, chosen to lift the spirits through the healing power of words. The book is divided into eight sections on the themes of Joy, Hope, Resilience, Nature, Tranquillity, Gratitude, Escape and Love. Featuring a diverse range of writers from Maya Angelou to Oscar Wilde, Pablo Neruda to Rupi Kaur, the selections are accompanied by explanations and illuminating context that reinforces the positive mental health message. Combining uplifting lines of verse and joyful illustrations, this unique book provides a much-needed dose of hopefulness and happiness in turbulent times, whether as a thoughtful gift for someone in need of solace or a resource that can be turned to whenever we need to.
In Burmese Days, George Orwell, one of the most famous writers in the English language, draws on his own experience of living and working in Burma to write an unflinching novel about the dark side of
繼《Winter in Sokcho》，作者又一探討認同與歸屬之作。韓裔人口聚集的日暮里，Claire的外祖父母守著一間傳統柏青哥。兩人拒絕和她以日語溝通，卻也對「回韓國看看」的提議反應冷淡。藉Claire視角，探詢離散者的故里他鄉、家族間的疏離，及語言與身分的連結。From the author of Winter in Sokcho, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women’s calves, men’s shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne for too long. It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring ten-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents: daydreaming, playing Tetris and listening to the sounds from the street above. The heat rises; the days slip by.The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the civil war there over fifty years ago, along with thousands of others, and haven’t been back since. When they first arrived in Japan, they opened Shiny, a pachinko parlour. Shiny is
In a storytelling tour de force, Stephen King explores an uncharted corner of the Dark Tower universe—and the early days of the gunslinger Roland—with the twice-told tale of a murderous shape-shifter,
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022歐普拉讀書會選書！奧克蘭青年桂冠詩人，文壇新銳莫特利以家鄉真實事件為藍本寫就。出身失能家庭，在困境中掙扎求生的非裔女孩，一樁交易將她置於風暴中心，卻也讓她成了警界醜聞的唯一證人，為此，無數雙黑手正朝她伸去。'GROUNDBREAKING . . . THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE BIG BOOKS OF 2022'STYLIST'AN ELECTRIFYING DEBUT'DAVE EGGERS'MARKS THE INTRODUCTION OF A REMARKABLE NEW TALENT'OPRAH DAILY'TRULY BEAUTIFUL AND POWERFUL'RUTH OZEKI'LEILA MOTTLEY'S WRITING ERUPTS AND FLOWS LIKE LAVA'TOMMY ORANGEWhen there is no choice, all you have left to do is walk.Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a rehab facility and an older brother who devotes his time and money to a recording studio, she fends for herself – and for nine-year-old Trevor, whose own mother is prone to disappearing for days at a time. As the landlord of their apartment block threatens to raise their rent, Kiara finds herself walking the streets after dark, determined to survive in a world that refuses to protect her.Then one night Kiara is p
游泳、豔陽、冰淇淋。小男孩的夏天無限美好，直到──「趁夏天還在，你就好好享受吧，因為它很快就要結束了。」他的姐姐如此說道。不可能！怎麼會這樣？小男孩才不要夏天結束，更一點也不期待秋冬的到來。 雖然不想相信姐姐，但冬天的徵兆，一個接著一個相繼報到：紅葉、可可、小水窪。咦？這難道就是夏天結束的感覺嗎？原來一切跟小男孩想的完全不一樣……Come summer, autumn or winter, a little boy is going to make the best of it. Nothing is better than summer, swimming every day and eating ice cream. But a little boy's big sister has BIG news.She tells him that summer is going to end soon ... and winter is coming! When winter comes, she says, it will be cold ... and dark ...and rain all the time. They'll be stuck on the sofa for days and won't even dream of eating ice cream... From author-illustrator Simona Ciraolo, this is a celebration of the changing of the seasons, showing just how much joy can be found around each sunny - or snowy - corner.
To survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness?Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them—the vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself dies and becomes one of the monsters.Forced to flee her city, Allie must pass for human as she joins a ragged group of pilgrims seeking a legend—a place that might have a cure for the disease that killed off most of civilization and created the rabids, the bloodthirsty creatures who threaten human and vampire alike. And soon Allie will have to decide what?andwho?is worth dying for?again.Enter Julie Kagawa's dark and twisted world as an unforgettable journey begins.
Clever, quirky and hugely imaginative, discover the eagerly anticipated new eco-adventure series from the bestselling author of A Place Called Perfect.Who would you trust to save the world...a boy or a billionaire?The earth has shifted on its axis and a mysterious dark mark has appeared on the sun - the whole world is in peril! But billionaire tech genius Howard Hansom has a plan...When Grian's sister goes missing he's convinced she has run off to Hansom's new city to help save the world. But when Grian and his two friends Jeffrey and Shelli track her there they find that nothing is quite as it seems.Why is everything so secret? Where is the mysterious Area 13? What does Howard Hansom want with all the people he has enticed to live in his city?The days are getting darker but what's really happening to the sun?
Loss of Ways and Dark Days go hand in hand. Always were the two books connected since "Sorrow of Separation." Your " Dark Days" are born as you return home to find your life snatched away. Your sons w
Them Dark Days is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery’s horrors might be sof
Being a hefty, deaf newcomer almost makes Will Halpin the least popular guy at Coaler High. But when he befriends the only guy less popular than him, the dork-namic duo has the smarts and guts to figu
First in the thrilling new Kit Marlowe historical mystery series - Cambridge, 1583. About to graduate from Corpus Christi, the young Christopher Marlowe spends his days studying and his nights carousi
First in the thrilling new Kit Marlowe historical mystery series - Cambridge, 1583. About to graduate from Corpus Christi, the young Christopher Marlowe spends his days studying and his nights carousi
Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt and her mother live in Fallbrook, California, where it’s sunny 340 days of the year, and where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant worke
