Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga...
What did Maja do? Or is it what she failed to do that brought her here? Malin Persson Giolito has written a perceptive portrayal of a teenage girl and a blistering indictment of a society that is coming apart.
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He'd always be listening to motivational talks, lining the pockets of a succession of tacky gurus, Tony Robbins types, and once, Tony Robbins himself. He read books with obnoxious titles like See You at the Top and It's Yours—Take It, ...
In January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer. Quicksand is a response to this shattering news--but it is not a memoir of destruction.
When someone steals the money the town has been collecting to help the ducks, Josh and his friends try to find the thief.
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Discusses the composition of quicksand and rescue procedures.
Quicksand untangles these strands as no history has done before by showing how our strategies unfolded over the entire century and across the entire region.