Before the Ever After

• Author : Jacqueline Woodson
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 01 September 2020

WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD! National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life

• Author : Shannon Hale
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 21 October 2014

Read these exclusive introductions to all your favorite characters to find out what their lives are like at home! A new chapter is about to begin at Ever After High, and all the students are preparing to start their Legacy Year. In just a few weeks it will be Legacy Day when they will sign the Storybook of Legends and commit to live out their fairy-tale destiny, repeating the famous stories of their parents. This volume collects together for the

• Author : Amanda Hocking
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release : 07 January 2021

Welcome to a world in the shadow of our own, a fairytale land where the dangers are real . . . In The Ever After, the final book in the Omte Origins trilogy, Amanda Hocking creates an epic adventure in her much-loved Trylle universe. Ulla Tulin has lost a month of memories. Her journey to uncover her past led her to a mysterious sect – and a man claiming to be her father. But Ulla’s forgotten their reunion, and fears something terrible happened.

• Author : Richard Wolanski
• Publisher : Kickers Collective
• Release : 25 July 2021

Frosti, Alice's beloved pet white rat, reveals the secret of the Fly King's immortality to Fig. With his time running out, the insect is sent on a final journey that leads him to an epic battle for the Sourwood and the entire insect way of life. There Are No Gods for Arthropods is a satirical dark fantasy and an episodic novella series. Short enough to read in a single sitting, and yet, terrifying enough to keep you awake till midnight.

• Author : Emiko Jean
• Publisher : Flatiron Books
• Release : 18 May 2021

A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club YA Pick! The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in Emiko Jean’s Tokyo Ever After, a “refreshing, spot-on” (Booklist, starred review) story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan. Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in—it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it’s always

• Author : Ann Rinaldi
• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Release : 18 January 2010

In 1851, thirteen-year-old Cecilia has her eyes opened to the horrors of slavery when she accompanies her ornithologist uncle on an expedition in search of the rare "Scarlet Ibis," and watches as he shows slaves the way to the Underground Railroad.

• Author : Jessica Sorensen
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 03 December 2013

From number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret of Ella and Micha and The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden comes a story of change, hope, and unbreakable vows. The day Ella has waited for is just around the corner. It's the day she'll marry Micha, the love of her life, the light that guided her out of the darkness. It looks like it will be the perfect Christmas, until an unexpected package arrives with a harsh reminder

• Author : Padma Viswanathan
• Publisher : Catapult
• Release : 01 June 2015

From internationally acclaimed New Face of Fiction author Padma Viswanathan, a stunning new work set among families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing, registering the unexpected reverberations of this tragedy in the lives of its survivors. A book of post-9/11 life, The Ever After demonstrates that violent politics are all-too-often homegrown in North America but ignored at our peril. In 2004, almost 20 years after the fatal bombing of Air India Flight 182 from Vancouver, two suspects are—

• Author : Lee Thayer
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 31 May 2013

This book is about the apparent incompatibility of romantic love and conventional marriage. They go together (the popular song has it) like a horse and carriage. But if the horse is ailing or otherwise not up to the task, the carriage will slowly rot away in the carriage house. It is also about the perverse fact that people bring to such relationships their expectations from the past as they remember them. Typically, they had hopes and dreams for their future

• Author : Sarah Pekkanen
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 05 June 2018

“Writing with rawness and realism, Pekkanen doesn’t hold back…Fans of Liane Moriarty and Anne Tyler will appreciate the story’s depth.” —Booklist “In her signature conversational style, Pekkanen uncovers the truth behind the lies as Josie comes to grips with reality vs. the mirage of her marriage.” —Library Journal (starred review) In this intricate and enthralling domestic drama, perfect for fans of Big Little Lies and The Affair, the internationally bestselling author of the “gossipy page-turner” (Glamour) The

• Author : Jodi Lynn Anderson
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 20 May 2014

Most people aren't very comfortable in the woods, but the woods of Briery Swamp fit May Bird like a fuzzy mitten. There, she is safe from school and the taunts and teases of kids who don't understand her. Hidden in the trees, May is a warrior princess, and her cat, Somber Kitty, is her brave guardian. Then May falls into the lake. When she crawls out, May finds herself in a world that most certainly does not feel like a

• Author : Allan Chinen
• Publisher : Chiron Publications
• Release : 01 January 1994

'A wonderful book that can engage the wise person and the child within every adult who reads it. Wisdom and truth are present in each carefully and delightfully chosen fairy tale, recognizable in some inarticulated intuitive way.'?Jean Shinoda Bolen, author of Goddesses in Everywoman Do adults ever live happily ever after? Interpreted in light of contemporary research on mid-life and aging, these rare fairy tales reveal a deep folk wisdom about the psychological tasks encountered in the second

• Author : Samantha Sotto
• Publisher : Crown
• Release : 02 August 2011

"A smartly written romance, mystery and historical adventure all wrapped up in a page-turner that will have you guessing until the very end." – Adena Halpern, author of The Ten Best Days of My Life Three years after her husband Max's death, Shelley feels no more adjusted to being a widow than she did that first terrible day. That is, until the doorbell rings. Standing on her front step is a young man who looks so much like Max--same smile, same

• Author : Anna Todd
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 08 December 2015

Recounts Hardin's first encounters with Tessa and their ensuing love affair that became a vortex pulling in everyone around them.

• Author : Pauline Greenhill
• Publisher : Wayne State University Press
• Release : 06 October 2014

Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images that float through the air to bring them into homes, schools, and workplaces. Even apparently realistic forms, like the nightly news, routinely employ discourses of “once upon a time,” “happily ever after,” and “a Cinderella story.” In Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television, Pauline Greenhill