Marias young life is shattered when she finds her boyfriend in the arms of another girl, and catches her father amorously engaged with a secretary in his office shortly after. Devastated, Maria and her mother decide to move away. Beginning afresh in a new town, Marias life soon becomes tumultuous and emotional. She quickly meets Jake, a local boy, and a new friend named Conce. Passions develop between Jake and Maria, and for the first time in a long while she believes that she has found happiness. One day, however, Maria receives a strange visitor who will shape Marias, Jakes and Conces lives forever. Four: The Beginning ignites a tale of young intrigue and love with countless surprises.ÿ
Divided into four narratives, The Four Books tells the story of the Great Famine, one of China’s most devastating and controversial periods.
This collection also makes a great pick for fans of the blockbuster movies who want to delve deeper into the character played by Theo James. Readers first encountered Tobias as "Four" in Divergent.
Instead of buying the myths these companies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they’re almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)?
THE STORY: On the Fourth of July in Hartford in 1996, June, a sixteen-year-old white boy, meets up with a closeted, married black man he's met over the Internet.
Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. • A New York Times bestseller for over 7 years • Over 5 ...
Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be captivated by "Four: The Transfer," the first of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told ...
At the heart of the book is a sonnet crown triggered by the shooting deaths of three Brooklyn men that becomes an extended meditation on the history of racial injustice and the notion of payback as a form of justice.
“A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why.” —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul ...
The epic story of Thomas Cale—introduced so memorably in The Left Hand of God—continues as the Redeemers use his prodigious gifts to further their sacred goal: the extinction of humankind and the end of the world.
This volume presents the first English translation of the Confucian classics, Four Books for Women, with extensive commentary by the compiler, Wang Xiang, and introductions and annotations by translator Ann A. Pang-White.