Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Café

Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Café
Author: Milly Johnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2015-06-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471140474

The heartwarming and feel-good read from the Sunday Times bestselling author ‘The feeling you get when you read a Milly Johnson book should be bottled and made available on the NHS’ Debbie Johnson When Connie discovers that Jimmy Diamond, her husband of more than twenty years, is planning to leave her for his office junior, her world is turned upside down. Determined to salvage her pride, she resolves to get her own back. Along with Della, Jimmy's right-hand woman at his cleaning firm, Diamond Shine, and the cleaners who meet at the Sunflower Café, she'll make him wish he had never underestimated her. Then Connie meets the charming Brandon Locke, a master chocolatier, whose kindness starts to melt her soul. Can the ladies of the Sunflower Cafe help Connie scrub away the hurt? And can Brandon make her trust again? Praise for Milly Johnson: 'Every time you discover a new Milly book, it’s like finding a pot of gold' heat 'A glorious, heartfelt novel' Rowan Coleman ‘Absolutely loved it. Milly's writing is like getting a big hug with just the right amount of bite underneath. I was rooting for Bonnie from the start' Jane Fallon ‘Bursting with warmth and joie de vivre’ Jill Mansell ‘Warm, optimistic and romantic’ Katie Fforde

A Big Operation

A Big Operation
Author: Richard Scarry
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780689803710

Huckle has to go to hospital to have his tonsils out. This book shows children that hospital isn't such a scary place after all.

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Self Portrait in Green

Self Portrait in Green
Author: Marie NDiaye
Publisher: Influx Press
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1910312908

'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.

Richard Scarry's Find Your ABC's

Richard Scarry's Find Your ABC's
Author: Richard Scarry
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2009-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781402762949

With the help of the reader, two detectives search for the letters of the alphabet.

The Brothers

The Brothers
Author: Milton Hatoum
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2002-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429932201

Introducing a major new voice in Brazilian letters. Set among a Lebanese immigrant community in the Brazilian port of Manaus, The Brothers is the story of identical twins, Yaqub and Omar, whose mutual jealousy is offset only by their love for their mother. But it is Omar who is the object of Zana's Jocasta-like passion, while her husband, Halim, feels her slipping away from him, as their beautiful daughter, RGnia, makes a tragic claim on her brothers' affection. Vivid, exotic, and lushly atmospheric, The Brothers is the story of a family's disintegration, of a changing city and the culture clash between the native-born inhabitants and a new immigrant group, and of the future the next generation will make from the ruins.

My Greatest Book of Bedtime Stories

My Greatest Book of Bedtime Stories
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1996-12
Genre: Bedtime
ISBN: 9781858301792

Presents a large collection of short bedtime stories with many themes, including stories of soft brown bears, tiny mice, snowmen, and toys that come alive.

Killing the Water

Killing the Water
Author: Mahmud Rahman
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143065033

The 1000 Year Old Boy

The 1000 Year Old Boy
Author: Ross Welford
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0525707476

A heartstopping, poignant, epic adventure story about a boy destined to live forever, who only wants to grow up. Without death, life is just existence. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live forever? Well, Alfie Monk can tell you. He may seem like an ordinary eleven-year-old boy, but he's actually more than a thousand years old--and remembers the last Viking invasion of England, not to mention the French Revolution and both World Wars. Way back in the tenth century, he and his mother were given the alchemical secret to eternal life. But when everything Alfie knows is destroyed in a fire, and the modern world intrudes, he must embark on a mission--along with friends Aidan and Roxy--to find a way to reverse the process and grow up like a regular boy. This astonishing new novel from the author of Time Traveling with a Hamster, told in alternating perspectives by Alfie and Aidan, is a tour de force--a sweeping epic that takes you on an unforgettable, breathtaking adventure and asks big questions about the meaning of life.

Glad to Be Dad

Glad to Be Dad
Author: Tim J. Myers
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1938301005

After staying home with his two sons for a year and his daughter since her infancy, Tim Myers knows all about being a stay-at-home parent. He knows the most effective cleaning products, which snacks to buy, and has developed a “housemaid’s knee.” He has experienced first-hand the profound influence fathers have on their children, along with the challenges of being a committed parent. By recounting personal experiences, offering honest, sincere opinions, and including quizzes for fatherly-preparedness, Tim Myers emphasizes the importance of fatherly contribution and influence in the home. He shows fathers that they are not only vital to home life, but that fatherhood also brings great joy into men’s lives, not to mention a surprising amount of plain old fun. In addition, Myers details the essential role of fathers, and the very real (and sometimes frustrating) transition into taking an active role in home life. Poignant, funny, and inspiring, Glad to be Dad is perfect for both aspiring fathers and seasoned veterans.