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Grade 3-6–Nine-year-old Kati lives an idyllic life with her grandparents in their ancestral home by a river in present-day Thailand. Grandma and Grandpa, though loving, are solemn and sad, carrying a secret burden hinted at in chapter subheadings: Kati's mother left her with them years before. Suddenly the child is asked if she wants to see her, and she decides to go to the house by the sea where her mother, a corporate lawyer, is dying from ALS. Kati learns all about the disease from her mother's friends Uncle Kunn and Aunt Da, who will stay with Pat until her death. Before that happens, Kati and Mother have the chance to renew their relationship; Kati learns the circumstances of her birth and early years. But all too soon Mother succumbs to her illness and, following her death, her cousin introduces Kati to many details of her mother's life. She is then given another choice, whether or not to make contact with her father, and she cleverly resolves her conflict. The author uses vivid description to bring the setting and culture to life, and characters are well drawn. While issues of parental responsibility and death with dignity are central to the story, the focus remains on Kati and her responses to what is going on around her. Although there are occasional lapses in the narrative, and message and melodrama sometimes intrude, this is a solid story enhanced by a unique sense of place._–Marie Orlando, Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY_
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Gr. 4-7. In a simple, lyrical translation from the Thai, this small book tells a story of love and sorrow from the viewpoint of Kati, nine, who lives in a small coastal community with her grandparents. Questions about Kati's mother's long absence provide the suspense; no one in her large, loving, extended family speaks of her. Then Katie is taken to see Mother, who is dying, and the grief is almost overwhelming. But there is another mystery: Who is Kati's father? Does she want to know? The spare narrative widens to encompass homey details of traditional village life--including what people eat, how they cook, and more--but the culture is not presented as exotic or picturesque; Kati's wealthy, technologically savvy family is well-versed in international e-commerce. The pace is slow, but the spaces between the words evoke stirring drama close to home. For another book about the tragic death of a family member, suggest Cynthia Kadahota's Newbery Medal book Kira-Kira (2004). Hazel Rochman
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Ich streckte eine Hand aus und berührte ihr Gesicht. Ihr Haar. Ihre Flügel. Die Ähnlichkeit war verblüffend. Sie war auf ewig in Stein und Staub erstarrt.

Aus harten Linien und unbezwingbarem Granit herausgearbeitet. »Wartest du auf mich?«, flüsterte ich. »Du hast gesagt, du würdest immer hier sein.«

Plötzlich wurde die Statue kalt. Eisig.

So rau wie ein Winterwind und ich befürchtete, meine Finger würden daran festfrieren. »Nein!«, schrie ich. »Bitte …« Ihre Flügel barsten. Der Stein seufzte. Und von ihren Augen fiel eine Träne.

In the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed—and Giannine seems to be finding them all. Which is a darn shame, because unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, impress the head-chopping statue, charm the army of ghosts, fend off the barbarians, and defeat the man-eating dragon, she'll never win.

And she has to, because losing means she'll die—for real this time.<

Once upon a time there was a very nice but very plain princess named Jennifer, who, following proper fairy-tale protocol, fell for a very handsome but very conceited prince named Alexander. When Alexander offends a powerful witch, it falls to Jennifer to save him. In the course of doing so, she meets a wizard and soon wonders if she's such a proper fairy-tale princess after all—a good little princess would love Alexander, but does she?<

Es hieß, sie hätte Selbstmord begangen. Jeder sagte das.

Was als Gerücht begann und von diskreten Menschen in kleinen Gruppen flüsternd angedeutet wurde, wuchs sich rasch zu etwas aus, das von weniger diskreten Menschen in großen Gruppen offen diskutiert wurde. Ich hatte es so satt, ihnen zuzuhören.

Sie fragten mich aus. Immer und immer wieder, um herauszufinden, ob ich wusste, was geschehen war. Aber meine Antworten blieben dieselben. Trotzdem versuchten sie es immer wieder aufs Neue, als ob sie erwarteten, dass meine Antworten sich eines Tages plötzlich ändern würden.

Dabei wusste ich wirklich nichts, aber ich hätte es wissen müssen … und seitdem verfolgt es mich.

Stranded miles from home, Ariana Fuller has few ways to protect herself from the enemy hunting her—except to let her demon side take control over the angelic half of her soul. The last man she wants to come to her rescue is jaguar shifter Daimon Nelson, the man who claimed her virginity and still tempts her like no other.

Though Ariana fears giving in to erotic abandonment will free her inner demon, Daimon's scorching kisses and wicked aura of sensuality make her forget all common sense. She tries to resist his allure, but Daimon is equally resolved to complete his mission of seduction. He must mate with Ariana to absorb her dark powers before they are unleashed—and before the enemy can claim her for himself....<

What can make a young director hide under the stuffed bison? The answer is in the museum after hours where Will struggles to keep his sanity. His crew is sent directly from hell, there are too many ghosts and the crowbar and the curator are nowhere to be found. When Will finally finds the latter he wishes he rather had gone insane. The curator is Roger, Will's lover who has left him unexpectedly and rather mysteriously three years ago. And there are more and more surprises to come including mythical creatures, shocking revelations and life-changing decisions.

SUMMARY:
Exiled to a life of extreme loneliness because everyone she touches dies, Emily Burke has every reason to distrust Raphael Robichaux. The immortal werewolf possesses immense power and has been summoned by her pack to end her life. And yet, from the moment she lays eyes on the powerful rebel, he awakens all the longings she's kept bottled inside...and gives her hope.When Raphael meets Emily, he knows something enormous is at stake. For not only does he see that her blood can restore life--but she is his destined mate.Trust doesn't come easily to Emily. But somehow Raphael must convince her to put her life in his hands. Only then will an ancient prophecy be fulfilled and a terrible evil destroyed....

SUMMARY: A virtuosic novel about family, history, memory, and betrayal from the brightest new Latin American literary talent working today. When Gabriel Santoros biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke such a painful reaction. A volume that catalogues the life of Sara Guterman, a longtime family friend and Jewish immigrant, since her arrival in Colombia in the 1930s, A Life in Exile seemed a slim, innocent exercise in recording modern history. But as a devastated Gabriel delves, yet again, into Saras story, searching for clues to his fathers anger, he cannot yet see the sinister secret buried in his research that could destroy his fathers exalted reputation and redefine his own. After his fathers mysterious death in a car accident a few years later, Gabriel sets out anew to navigate half a century of half-truths and hidden meanings. With the help of Sara Guterman and his fathers young girlfriend, Angelina, layer after shocking layer of Gabriels world falls away and a complex portrait of his father emerges from the ruins. From the streets of 1940s Bogotá to a strangers doorstep in 1990s Medellín, he unravels the web of doubt, betrayal, and guilt at the core of his fathers life and he wades into a dark, longsilenced period of Colombian history after World War II. With a taut, riveting narrative and achingly beautiful prose, Juan Gabriel Vásquez delivers an expansive, powerful exploration of the sins of our fathers, of wars devastating psychological costs, and of the inescapability of the past. A novel that has earned Vásquez comparisons to Sebald, Borges, Roth, and Márquez, The Informers heralds the arrival of a major literary talent. SUMMARY: A virtuosic novel about family, history, memory, and betrayal from the brightest new Latin American literary talent working today. When Gabriel Santoros biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke such a painful reaction. A volume that catalogues the life of Sara Guterman, a longtime family friend and Jewish immigrant, since her arrival in Colombia in the 1930s, A Life in Exile seemed a slim, innocent exercise in recording modern history. But as a devastated Gabriel delves, yet again, into Saras story, searching for clues to his fathers anger, he cannot yet see the sinister secret buried in his research that could destroy his fathers exalted reputation and redefine his own. After his fathers mysterious death in a car accident a few years later, Gabriel sets out anew to navigate half a century of half-truths and hidden meanings. With the help of Sara Guterman and his fathers young girlfriend, Angelina, layer after shocking layer of Gabriels world falls away and a complex portrait of his father emerges from the ruins. From the streets of 1940s Bogotá to a strangers doorstep in 1990s Medellín, he unravels the web of doubt, betrayal, and guilt at the core of his fathers life and he wades into a dark, longsilenced period of Colombian history after World War II. With a taut, riveting narrative and achingly beautiful prose, Juan Gabriel Vásquez delivers an expansive, powerful exploration of the sins of our fathers, of wars devastating psychological costs, and of the inescapability of the past. A novel that has earned Vásquez comparisons to Sebald, Borges, Roth, and Márquez, The Informers heralds the arrival of a major literary talent.<

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The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Mallanāga Vātsyāyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses. "Kāma" means sensual or sexual pleasure, and "sūtra" literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. The modern English word "suture" is derived from the same root.
The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra . Traditionally, the first transmission of Kama Shastra or "Discipline of Kama" is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva's doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god and his wife Parvati and later recorded his utterances for the benefit of mankind.

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