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There's this book that I've been looking for. I remember a phrase on the front cover but not the title itself or the author. The phrase is something along the lines of "would you rather have the perfect life or the perfect love. In both lives, she looks exactly the same but her lives are very different. In one, she's really rich and has the ideal family and boyfriend. In the other, she's really poor and only lives with her mom. Whenever she turns 18, her parents throw her a huge birthday party at her house. She's afraid that the party is going to last past midnight and experience the switch herself, which she's never done before.

She's also met another guy in her other life where shes poor and starts to fall in love. She starts contemplating what life she wants to stay in and plans to kill one of her selves just to stop the cycle. I don't remember the author or the title, just a phrase on the front cover. The phrase says something along the lines of "would you rather have the perfect life or the perfect love.

She switches at midnight every night while she's sleeping. Her 2 bodies are exactly the same, but her lives in each are very different. In the first one, she's really rich, has the ideal family, and has the perfect boyfriend. In the second, she is poor and only lives with her mom.

In the life where shes poor, she's also met a man that she's starting to fall in love with. One day, in her second life, she injures her ankle. She's worried that she'll wake up in her other life with an injury as well, but the injury doesn't transfer over. She starts to contemplate what life she wants to live in and starts experimenting on her body. She starts off by cutting herself to see if the injury transfers over. She dyes her hair to see if it also changes when she switches back and forth. She ends up in a mental hospital because her mom thinks she's suicidal from all the injuries and changes and stays there for a while.

The man that she likes works there and she tells him about her switching. He doesn't believe her at first but she ends up proving it to him. A girl gets in trouble for partying. Gets in trouble with drugs. Judge sentences her to Africa to help at an orphanage. The kids get kidnapped sometimes to either be used for soldiers or sold. A favourite book of mine 35 years ago Two sisters? One is grateful for life's basics. One wants the best of everything even though it is beyond her means and she loses it all.

The poorer sister is the happier of the two. The book alternates between her perspective and the perspective of an alien living on the same planet. The alien finds her hiding in a cave, approaches her, and they tentatively eventually become mutuals. There was this one part I remember about the difference in a smile between species — humans smile by showing their teeth, which the alien viewed as threatening, and the aliens smiled by sticking out their tongues, which the girl didn't initially recognize as a smile.

Theres this book, that has a lot of short stories in it, and I remember reading it when i was in 5th grade. An example of one of the short stories was about this kid who wore shoes for a few months straight without taking them off to fend off bullies from killing a turtle. Another one of the short stories was about a boy who wanted to whiten his teath with whitneres, but in the end, his teath had liquified because he kept them on for too long.

I am looking for a book with a sub plot of a dad working extra hard to buy his son a coat he wanted, that all the cool kids had. Poor family, dad not one to show affection. Boy was all excited to wear it to school, Dad was quietly proud. Kids made fun of boy because jacket was a knockoff and he got in a fight over it, I think the coat was torn, he never wore it again, and dad never mentioned it. I've been looking for a children's book that my siblings and I enjoyed around and my brother, eight years my senior also loved..

Grouchy retired sea captain, irritated by a rainbow, captures it, rolls it up and stows it in a hatch in his little home. Neighborhood boy frees the rainbow which unfurls into the sky. Beautiful and fun water color illustrations. Sea captain sees the error of his ways! I have been looking for a book I read in the nineties written by an American journalist who lived and worked as a reporter in Africa. He wrote about his life in Africa including some funny experiences. I think he worked for The York Times. Some American paper for sure.

Thanks I have been trying to find it, but difficult without title or author! Looking for a book I read in the nineties about an American Journalist living and working in Africa. Cannot remember title or author. Some funny experiences he had in Africa. I think he worked for the New York Times? But was based in Africa. Thank you for helping me! I've been looking for an R rated book, I am an adult, about a woman with two daughters, works at a dentist office, and meets a man with a bad past.

The woman is also battling for custody of her daughters with her cheating ex husband. The book is about a woman with two daughters who works at a dentist, eventually meeting a man with a bad past who moves in next door. She's battling for custody of her daughters with her cheating ex husband.

Things escalate with her and the man eventually. R rated book, I am an adult. I believe the series is titled "Class A. He has a pocket sized computer that he runs programs on written in BASIC, I believe and each book had programs you could run on your computer after typing them in.

I remember in one book, The protagonist meets the president, who calls him a "Class Act", and our hero wonders if the President knows what he does on the side. Another adventure has our hero paired up with a dog in a secret base in i believe the Alaskan wilderness. Protagonist goes through a series of emotions like fear, anxiety, etc because an alien ship has landed. Protagonist describes the ship and the creatures coming out of the ship, as having hair "all over their head" - as if that was crazy weird.

Big reveal at the end is that the protagonist is an extra-terrestrial and the aliens are humans from Earth. Really great story on perspective and looking at things egocentrically. And a kid really wants to meet a certain famous hockey player. But, the hockey player just happens to be her ex and father of her son that he knows nothing about I need help finding this book!!

But, the hockey player just happens to be her ex and father of her son.. This is a book where the woman works for a company that helps kids with disabilities or illnesses. And this autistic kid really wants to meet a certain famous hockey player. The hockey player happens to be her Ex and the father of her son. Can some on help me find this book i read it years ago its a young teen book that has a boy that has magic boots that grow with him he doesn't know where he came from all of his past he remembers about his mothers or some family member singing a line to him he starts off as a thief and meets a girl as they run him and the girl fall in love along the way he discovers that he can sing a few lines and make what he wants true but at a cost to him he will lose something as great of the value of what he wants to be done at the end of the book he trades his life for his girl companion but he comes back for he is not human so he is reborn and gets to live with his family that he thought he lost yet he found again Along the way in the middle of the book he a quires a dagger that has a string attached to his wrist that he can throw and pull back and his dagger will come back to him.

There's a fantasy book that my cousin forced me to read when I was younger and I didn't like it because it was confusing but now I want to read it it's about these people or creatures and they live in trees I think and I believe they're forced to go to war I have a memory of a scene where there in like a restaurant in one of the tree like they all live in the trees or like in the forest and they have to go to war and there's like a girl warrior there's a black group of friends and they go on and then I remember there's two brothers and they go to another dimension in one scene and when they come back one of the brothers is completely change then something happened to him like part of him died or something.

And then in the end I think that they come back after all of this and I remember like an engagement between two of the characters. I know this is very vague but I know it's a fantasy book. In this book there is a mexican girl who lives in the USa with her mother. She is made fun if at school and her only friends are two brothers they are twins. When they grow up she gets pregnant by one of the brothers, and the other one dies.

She gives birth to the baby but after a while she leaves cause she can't handle everything. After a year or so she comes back and after a row of events she lives happily ever after woth the father of her child and the love of her life. In this book a city girl quits her job to move to a farm with a man she just met.

Can somebody help me find a book. It starts with a girl trying to find her twin sister in a garrage or some shady place. It is a fantasy paranormal book maybe involves farie world non mages. In this book a girl is surgically given the face of a princess in order to be her double.

The mother is leading a rebellion the king kills both mom and real princess thinking that the princess is the double. Two of my favorite children's books Sgthartman you're thinking of the book called Harrison Bergeron. Can somebody help me find this book? She ends up helping the little girls father find his daughter. The woman and the father end up falling for each other.

I think this is romantic suspense. I think I read it yrs ago I dont think it was that old but I'm not sure. When he gets out of prison he looks for his missing sister and finds out that she was involved with some sort of mafia or something similar. To find and save her he has to work with the mafia people and was forced to blow up a train station. Can somebody pls help me with this?!

When I was younger I read this great book that I just remembered and cant get out of my head. It was this book about these two foster girls whos "aunt" who was a hippie had suddenly died in the bathroom one day and the girls had buried her in the backyard and pretended to live on like nothing happened surviving by cleaning rent cabins until they fighr about whether to tell the authorities or not and one of them wants to run away. Bwessels98 I remember a similar book that I struggle to remember the name of. It sounds like the story you summarized.

Strong people were burdened with weights I've tried to find this book by googling small pieces of what I remember but I haven't found it yet. I'm looking for a book that I read when I was about 13 years old I'm 20 now I don't know very much about it, but it was a fiction book about a boy who lives in a government who decides everything for you. Everyone has to take a "medicine" or some sort of vitamin when they go out the door, by laying their hand on some sort of device, then you get a little sting and it detects your blood, so you can't skip your daily vitamins.

He eventually discovers that the drug is doing something to your brain and makes you forget stuff. So he tries to fool the device with an apple where he put his blood on. He stops taking the drugs and his memory becomes clear. He has some sort of girlfriend and convinces her to stop taking the drug too. And if you go against the law by having I think it was "good memories" or something like that, you get the death penalty. I really can't remember any more, I hope someone can help me out!! It starts out with a teenaged girl who falls in love but is torn by the fact that she's is embarrassed by her family and the boy she love's lifestyle.

So once she goes off to college she disconnects from her family and her childhood love and marries a rich boyfriend. Once married the honeymoon phase was really but then he started to change first he would just raise his voice but then it get physical.

When she got pregnant she thought thing had changed but was still cautious but one he was just angry hit her so hard she fell and ended up going into labour. Thankfully both the woman and her baby girl were okay but once at home she tried her hardest to shield her daughter from her husband but sometimes it would be so sudden that there was nothing she could do, it got so bad that her daughter would be crying completely silent in fear of her father.

In desperate need for safety for her daughter she devises a plan where she packed up both of their necessities before hand. So when the husband left the mansion she would have had to pretend she's just going shopping and would dress herself and little girl to suit in order to fool the staff and the neighbors. Once out of the neighborhood she raced to father who was the leader of a gang or club of some sort for protection she drove non stop no matter how tired es she got.

Only when she was inside the gates was she relieved, she got the car and walked up to her shocked father she passes out leaving her daughter silently crying in the back seat. I can't remember the rest please help. Please help me find the name of this book. It starts out with a teenage girl who falls in love but is torn by the fact that she's is embarrassed by her family and the boy she love's lifestyle. I think it was her first day of school and she wore her hair in braids with ribbons, and she got new shoes with ribbons, and she had buttons down her jumper.

She may have brought her neighbors cookies at one point in the story. Has a wife and i think a kid. He hoes out to a bar one night and is supposed to bring his wife back ice cream and gets kidnapped or something. The kidnapper know everything about him. Brings him to a abandoned warehouse and then he wakes up in a hospital; however, he is living the what could have been life. A children's book about two sisters an inventor and washing their dresses. Book about a cancer survivor who read and watched nothing but funny movies and it helped him beat his caner.

Anyone know the book about a man with cancer who stays in his home and reads and watches only funny books and movies, and ends up getting better? It's about a girl who goes to live with her aunt and uncle, I think his name is David. He wears velvet and has golden hair. He's an alcoholic who wind up dying on a stroll through the wood in a creek. I think the main character is studying to become a doctor or maybe a nurse in a country doctor setting. What if you cant remember the title but a Character.

I recall reading this book a friend handed me in Boarding school about an Investigator he was heavy set,Balding at the top of his head loved eating dried fruit raisins that's how learnt what raisins were. The setting was Africa Egypt I think a crime perhaps murder had occurred and he was going to solve it he was great at fighting too man i miss this book but cant remember the author of title. What if you cant remember the title but I recall reading this book a friend handed me in Boarding school about an Investigator he was heavy set,Balding at the top of his head loved eating dried fruit raisins that's how learnt what raisins were.

He spared her and eventually takes her back to where his people are on the other side of the mountains. Despite her escape attempts inevitably they fall for one another but he releases her anyway. Where his people have been hiding from the world is destroyed by an earthquake. Eventually him and her find each other agin. The romantic novel about an Irish man who lost his wife in the ocean tide, leaving him with twin daughters and was given a new bride by the tide from the future. The romantic novel about an Irish man with twin daughters who lost his wife in the storm and got sent a new bride by the tide from the future.

A horror story in a small town.. I'm going crazy trying to remember this.. L looking for a historical romance about a woman who falls in love with her husband and he is murdered and his ghost comes back to help her find his killer I think Rose is in the name of the title. I'm trying find the name of the book that I remember being made to read in school along with the movie that goes to it it's about a Native American boy who gets taken from his tribe and put into the one schools they had that was supposed to teach the kids to be American white and I believe he ran away and he ends up with an old guy who is in the rodeo.

The children are named after the cities he was in when they were born. I'm looking for a book where a girl is a freshmen in college and doesn't want to rush but is asked by a girl that needs to meet her quota of recruitment. She shows up and the head sister instantly hates her. Then the main girl gets a job at a bar as a waitress with great tips.

His girlfriend had committed suicide but you find out she didnt she was killed by the lead sorority girl. She was actually killed by a sorority girl who is obsessed with.

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She tries to do the same to the main girl in the book. The boy and girl go to a hotspring and ride bikes up too it. Any idea was a good book would like to read it again but can't remember anything about the title or author or the peoples names in the book. This girl gets into Harvard at 17 and is very shy.

I never got to finish the book to see who she ends up choosing but if anyone could help? The book i need is about a girl who lives in a world where they dont eat real food and the new generation has never even smelt real food. The girls dad is a programmer. She goes to some convention with a friend on the outskirts of town where she meets a boy in a run down store and he has this device that allows them to smell foods.

And hers and his hunger for real food continues to grow. They eventually run away toghther with many people after them. They go to an old friend of his that changes the way tou look and they both get changed and they go in search for the land where they eat the real food and grow crops and eveyrthing like that. Once they are there and are put to work they barley see each other anymore as they are set to diffrent jobs and different times of day. Please help i am going crazy i lay in bed trying to think of the book name but i can't and it was a reall good book.

I'm looking for a book that the girl's husband is the rival from her political, and her husband is entering an election to be the next There's a hint of erotica too. I'm looking for a children's book with fairies of some kind. One of them likes gardening and writes a large book of plants and how to care for them. I remember a plotline where pollen from some rare seed causes them all to sneeze and they make noseclips with scented handkerchiefs. The book is about a girl whos parents dislike her and so does the youth group from her church for doing something she believed was right, she ends up with a boy for as her partner for a science project, they begin to get along and the project involves studying puppies, he tries to get her into the game of thrones, they end up dating even though she gets grounded.

I'm looking for a book about a girl who's parents and her youth group dislike because she did something she thought was right, she ends up with a boy in a science project who seems determined to get the prize they'll win, the project involves studying puppies, during this they hang out more often and he makes her watch game of thrones with him, in the end they kiss in his garage while putting up the pups, they begin to date and she gets grounded but continues to see him.

Looking for a story about a girl who got kidnapped and sold into slavery but there a crow that turns into a guy and helps her. They end up falling in love and getting married. I'm looking for a book I read maybe years ago, it was from the high school library and probably categorised as young adult fiction. It was about this deaf teenage girl who was travelling with her mum to see the grand canyon I think, and on the way they met some strange characters and the young girl kept having dreams in which she could hear.

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There was a boy involved who could turn into a wolf and I think in these dreams this wolf would lead her throughout a dreamscape wilderness to find something to defeat some higher power. In the end the girl ended up having been stolen at birth by her "mother" and she finds her true parents and goes to live with them but isn't happy as she obviously has grown up with someone else as her parent. There's a dramatic standoff at the end where the "mother" threatens to kill herself in a motel? I'm looking for a book I read maybe years ago, it was from my high school library and probably categorised as young adult fiction.

I think the girl defeats the higher power in the dream and stops having the dream. I really wanna find out what it was called because it was very good and shed light on the life of a deaf lip-reader. I'm looking for a book set in Europe, there was a bus accident, one girl was pregnant, she had the baby in a restroom after the accident, and I believe she died. A lady on the bus wrapped the baby and left her on a doorstep, the rest of the book intertwines the life of the baby and a young boy that was on the bus also.

I can't remember the name of a book that I read, it was set in Europe as I recall, there was a group of people from a small town that went on an excursion in a bus and they have an accident, some of the group die in the accident, but one young pregnant girl has her baby right after the accident, the baby is delivered by 2 ladies from the group and one lady takes the baby girl and leaves her on a doorstep, the rest of the book is about the intertwining of the lives of the baby girl and a young boy that had also been on the bus.

Im looking for a book i read about 10 years ago. Its about a girl who goes to live with a family member. She goes to viset the kid when shes not allowed to. I'm looking for a book that I read when I was a child. It was a chapter book but it had a few pictures. I believe it was a series but I only had one of them. It was either two sisters or two cousins who solved mysteries. One if the girls had short curly hair, glasses and was kind of an ugly duckling. The other girl was I think named amy and she had long blonde hair.

The other girl was always a little jealous of her.

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The book I had, they traveled to the woods and there was an island with mystery lights. I'm looking for a children's picture book about a little girl who didn't want to go to sleep because she didn't want to miss anything. I think she had older siblings in the story. Later in the story, she has a really good dream and didn't want to wake up because she didn't want to miss anything in the dream.

She has long braided hair and is also a virgin. I know they can join minds at intimate times too. I'm looking for 2 books I read in prison. The groom gets all the women of the town to make her a wedging quilt from odd pieces of cloth. Anyone knows these books. I can't remember the names or author.

I remember reading a book about a girl who lives in a "perfect world" where the government decides everything for you. The whole place is surrounded by wall panels, in a globe shape. Her job is basically sitting in a chair and clicking any panel that flickers. One day she sees a panel flicker a bit outside of her designated zone, but when she checks it out something happens and she gets a warning. If you get 3 warnings, you are kicked out of the place. Her mother was kicked out of the place a long time ago. She remember that she got one strike because she was on the swings and went too high.

The flickering panel scenario gives her 2 warnings in total. At 18, all of the warnings are removed and you get a second chance. At 18, you also determine your future husband. You're also not allowed to wear white unless you work for the government. She finds her mother's wedding dress and wears it to the place where she will find her new husband, and there's two pictures that flash for her name. Then rebels come and attack the place and grab her but she escapes.

I don't remember much after that except she somehow gets out of the utopia and finds out that people live outside the little bubble she's lived her whole live. She doesn't trust anyone, there are bombs, people die, she goes back into her old bubble home. The master of the whole bubble place comes to her and he's fishy. Her mom is actually alive and she is the master of the rebels. Her mother wants her to take over, she says no, mother goes crazy, and she kills her.

The girl is obviously shook and she ends up in a box that messes with her mind and actualizes her nightmares. There a boy involved too, idk how though. I know it's messy and all over the place, but that's what I remember. If anyone knows what this is or if it sounds familiar to you, please let me know! My email address is randomarmy gmail. I am looking for a book that is about a boy who lives in a small town in Russia. Growing up he hears a story about a monster that leaves people who see it paralyzed.

One day someone in the town becomes paralyzed and no one knows why. It started off with the brother gambling and he use the house as a last resort. The man who won is the second son of a duke I believe. The sister was the head and she was furious when she found out what he did. They had no money and had owe the butcher. After a while he invited his family to the house. He also fell in love with the sister. I am looking for a book that I am sure is out of print.

It is about a young Slavic girl who is sent to her Aunt and Uncle and the traditions she learns from her family and young male cousin. I am looking for a book I am sure is out of print.

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It is a book about a young Slavic girl who is sent to her Aunt and Uncle for a visit. Upon her visit she learns the traditions of her heritage and has adventures with me make cousin. Looking for this book I read as a 12 year old in the s, I'm guessing the book was late s. They have adventures and coming-of-age experiences such as going to their first party etc. Any thoughts would be much appreciated: I read a short storri in my English lit textbook in and I can't remember the title. It's about a woman who walks into a butcher's shop and they comment on how out of place she seems because she seems like she would be poor and has a plain face but she's dressed like she keeps herself well and she wasn't dirty like most common people.

In her time she really is poor but she uses the door to go back in time to where her money is worth more and that's how she supports her family. And her husband makes the comment that he doesn't know how she does so much with so little and even though they're poor they don't feel poor because she makes everything seem much bigger than it really is.

I'm looking for a vintage board book with a lion that has long hair and the animals thought it was spaghetti. The illustrator uses stuffed animals for the scenes. I had a book circa A new woman enters I read this short story in middle school, I believe, and for the life of me, I cannot find it. Basically, it was a story about a Caveman tribe, but the main character was a child born with a gimp, or twisted, foot and so was set in a cave to be killed by wolves as a baby but was rescued by an old woman who was slightly outcast from their society.

The boy grows up and walks with a crutch most of the time, and decides he will prove himself after being provoked by the tribe hunters saying he will never be able to catch up with them. So the boy runs off and joins a pack of wolves and learns to hunt through a lot of trial and error in these vicious mountains. He comes back and shows the hunters how to really hunt and it turns out the boy was the son of the leader of the clan.

It almost sounds like the new "Alpha" movie. I know this is a long shot but I am looking for a book about a girl who wanders into the forest or woods and comes across this man who says he is waiting on something. While he is waiting he tells her stories of fairy kingdoms and goblins I believe. In the end when it's time the girl sees a kingdom or another world and discovers that the man was actually the fairy from one of the stories waiting to get back into the fairy kingdom.

It's a pretty old book, I would say it was written before Any leads please email yobraniac gmail. Student looking for a book she loved: They have conversations about dying and heaven, and the little girl says she thinks heaven will be full of butterflies.

He promises he will be there for the little girl's death. For some reason, he doesn't end up making it to her death, and her mother becomes very upset that he broke his promise to her daughter. At the end of the movie, he sees butterflies. That's all I can remember but this has been annoying me for years that I can't remember it.

If anyone knows, email me: I have been looking for a book ever since I read it as a young teen. It was about a man who could shape-shift into a monster. At the beginning, he destroys an entire shanty town. There is also either a policeman or FBI agent tracking the monster down. At the end, the protagonist obtains the help of a woman and her daughter, who can also shape-shift. The daughter lures the antagonist onto his boat, then they both transform and sink below the water fighting. The daughter transformed into something looking a little more like a shark. I thought the book title had something to do with black water, black river, etc.

Drives me insane I cannot remember the title. There was this book that I had as a child that I cannot remember the name of. It was a book about the ocean only you opened it on its side and at the bottom had a sound box that you would use throughout the book. It had an up and down periscope sound, whale songs, a fog horn, etc. The "story" was you exploring the ocean from top to bottom in a submarine and using the sound box to play along and "hear" what was going on around you as you went through the book. I hope someone can help me. If you so have any ideas, please send me an email at: Im looking for a book name its about a guy created a medication to help soldiers deal ptsd but her sold it into the wrong hands it created a zombie like people that wanted to kill but his friend that help him create the medication took his kids to a island that they created a military like base that had kid soldiers.

I'm trying to help my friend find a book she's going insane looking for Okay so it starts off with a girl I think she was blonde on her 16? Birthday right and her friend gets her a laptop. They immediately go onto a dating site and started talking to this dude in the military. Military dude leaves military to see her and he got her a bracelet as a birthday present.

He ends up staying at her house because he's scared to go back. But he's staying in a storage room that's connected to her closet and he makes her paper roses out of books she gave him. They do the nasty. The book ironically talks about how a girl kept a dude in her closet and he ended up dying.

Girl comes home from school early and finds him walking around the house naked since nobody is home. Government ends up finding them and ties them up while torturing them. House catches fire and dude saves girl then goes back in to get her bracelet but ends up dying cause burning wood fell on him If you know please email me at ceraliththepyro yahoo.

I'm trying to help my friend look for a book that she is going nuts over Okay so it starts off with a girl on her 16th birthday and her friend gets her a laptop. House catches fire and dude saves girl then goes back in to get her bracelet but ends up dying cause burning wood fell on him She is going insane so if anyone knows email me at ceraliththepyro yahoo. Looking for a book that I read in my sophomore or Jr year of high school. All I can remember is it started in a village that was shot down, but a few escaped including this boy.

The book is about a desert I think where people walked for months to safety to escape. I'm pretty sure it took place in Africa and is a non-fiction book. Actually he became the administrator of the hospital and his book is a series of stories about all of that. He tells us about one client whom rallied in the face of impossible odds again and again and again to reach adulthood.

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He spoke about having lifelong relationships with his very injured patients. He spoke about fund raising. All the special needs a hospital like his had and how he had to go about getting those needs met. He spoke about being mentored by the previous Administrator not really knowing what he was walking into. He spoke about it being a calling not a job. At the end of the book was a chapter advising parents on what, where and how to get what they needed for their children should the need arise.

An awesome book I lent to my client that was not returned that I need to repurchase so I once again have it in my library. Can any of you out there help me locate this amazing book? I would be so appreciative. I do not know the name of the author, title or publisher. I am so sorry. It is poignant and contains a series of stories of different situations and miraculous clients who survived insurmountable odds.

He spoke about seeing every client holistically by looking ahead to where that client might be at age 18 or 25 or He spoke about having a lifelong relationship with each client that stepped through their doors. He spoke about one client who had horrific medical issues which required inventive surgical interventions.

So much so, I could practically hear the first chords of that familiar theme. I can honestly say that the only reason I believe the movie version of The Color Purple is better than the book is because the movie was a staple in my household before I came across the book. I appreciated how those characters were brought to life on the screen when I finally read the book. Although there are parts of the book that are not included in the movie, those removed parts do not significantly affect the story, which is important for a good adaptation.

Chuck Palahniuk is not a great writer. Fight Club, the book, is a shell of what the movie adaptation is, and if you saw the movie first, like I did, going back to read the book afterwards will add nothing to your Fight Club experience. The book is very different from the movie, a little more somber, a little more relaxed in some ways.

But the sheer brilliance of this movie shines. Robert de Niro as a pirate who likes to dress in drag? A younger Charlie Cox playing a doofy Tristan finding the shining star Yvaine who is played by Claire Danes, and then the lead evil witch is played by Michelle Pfeiffer?? I mean, come on. In the book, instead of being a teenage hacker, Lex is the annoying little sister. Brilliant paleobotanist Ellie Sattler?

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Oh for a world where women can wear pleated khaki shorts and hiking boots in films again. Jurassic Park is perfect, so say we all. Not because the Autobiography is terrible, but the way in which it is presented on film is so effing magical. The care given to the story and the man by every person responsible for producing the film, whether writer, director, actor, or set and costume designer, creates one giant work of power that takes the text and makes it something completely in and of itself. Annotated is kinda like those, but for books. This happened to me. The Dark Servant , Synopsis.

Santa's not the only one coming to town It's older than Christ and has tormented European children for centuries. Now America faces its wrath. Unsuspecting kids vanish as a blizzard crushes New Jersey. All that remains are signs of destruction—and bloody hoof prints stomped in snow. Seventeen-year-old Billy Schweitzer awakes December 5 feeling depressed. Already feuding with his police chief father and golden boy older brother, Billy's devastated when his dream girl rejects him.

When an unrelenting creature infiltrates his town, imperiling his family and friends, Billy must overcome his own demons to understand why his supposedly innocent high school peers have been snatched, and how to rescue them from a famous saint's ruthless companion—that cannot be stopped. The Fall of the Governor. Matt has constructed a very real and believable force in Krampus and has given it a real journalistic twist, and he has gained a fan in me!

Is this a twisted parental fantasy of reforming recalcitrant children? Is it a complex revision of the Medieval morality play? I fell for this story right away. Matt Manochio is a natural born storyteller. Prepared to be thrilled in a new, old-fashioned way. Manochio balances a very dark theme with crackling dialogue, fast-paced action, and an engaging, small-town setting.

Could there be a dark side to Santa? And if so, what would he do to those kids who were naughty? Matt Manochio provides the nail-biting answer with The Dark Servant.