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But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare. As news of the disappearance filters through the quiet Dublin suburb and an unexpected suspect is named, whispers start to spread about the women most closely connected to the shocking event.

Because only one of them may have taken Milo - but they could all be blamed. The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal, a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age , feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave.

The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder.

As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. It is , Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath.

Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook , left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings. A memoir of race, inequality and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student who was jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta.

As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their town After reading Christmas Carol , the notoriously reclusive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties.

The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens' other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit and about the season as a time for celebration, charity and memory.

When Donaldina Cameron arrives at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in , she intends to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants, but, within days, she discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems. San Francisco has a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization - the criminal tong - brings Chinese young women to America to sell them as slaves.

With the help of Chinese interpreters and the Chinatown police squad, Donaldina becomes a tireless social reformer to stop the abominable slave and prostitution trade.

In Ordinary Grace, Krueger looks back to to tell the story of Frank Drum, a boy on the cusp of manhood. A typical year-old with a strong, loving family, Frank is devastated when a tragedy forces him to face the unthinkable - and to take on a maturity beyond his years. Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. Reading Guide Question Two. Reading Guide Question Three. Reading Guide Question Four.

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Reading Guide Question Fifteen. Since several pieces of classical literature and one or two contemporary pieces are referenced or quoted in The Rent Collector , I thought it may be of interest if I provide added history on those pieces. Some I used in their entirety; others, I simply referenced. With one noted exception, all are in the public domain and readily available online. They are listed by their order of appearance.

There are dangers, but they are understood, accepted, and managed. When we step out of that world, we enter an area of unknown. What boundaries do we accept or create for ourselves? In reply, Sang Ly says, I m just talking about literature. Sopeap responds, And so am I. What do you suppose Sopeap is trying to imply? What might literature represent? When returning from the province, Sang Ly declares, Home. I let the word ring in my head. Yes, I confirm, we are home. Contrast this with her declaration that for Sopeap, the dump was never her home no matter how hard she tried to make it so.

Why the difference? Where is home for you and why? Sopeap s last name is Sin. Do you think this was intentional by the author? If so, what are the implications and what parallels might be drawn? Sitting beside Sopeap on the garden roof, Sang Ly says, As the clouds close in, an evening rain begins to fall.

He has owned several successful retail stores in addition to working with his wife in the fashion industry, designing for the McCall Pattern Company in New York. Camron began writing to get out of attending MBA school at the time, and it proved the better decision. His newest book, In Times of Rain and War releases in early He is the proud father of four children, all girls but three.

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