In the book All We Can Do is Wait, within the hours after a bridge collapse rocks their city, a group of Boston teenagers meet in the waiting room of Massachusetts General Hospital:
Siblings Jason and Alexa have already experienced enough grief for a lifetime, so in this moment of confusion and despair, Alexa hopes that she can look to her brother for support. But a secret Jason has been keeping from his sister threatens to tear the siblings apart...right when they need each other most.
Scott is waiting to hear about his girlfriend, Aimee, who was on a bus with her theater group when the bridge went down.
Their relationship has been rocky, but Scott knows that if he can just see Aimee one more time, if she can just make it through this ordeal and he can tell her he loves her, everything will be all right.
And then there's Skyler, whose sister Kate—the sister who is more like a mother, the sister who is basically Skyler's everything—was crossing the bridge when it collapsed. As the minutes tick by without a word from the hospital staff, Skyler is left to wonder how she can possibly move through life without the one person who makes her feel strong when she's at her weakest.
In his riveting, achingly beautiful debut, Richard Lawson guides readers through an emotional and life-changing night as these teens are forced to face the reality of their pasts...and the prospect of very different futures.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Book Teaser Tuesday: Mun Mun
In the book Mun Mun an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person’s physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute—and tiny. Their size is not just demeaning, but dangerous: day and night they face mortal dangers that bigger richer people don’t ever have to think about, from being mauled by cats to their house getting stepped on.
There are no cars or phones built small enough for them, or schools or hospitals, for that matter—there’s no point, when no one that little has any purchasing power, and when salaried doctors and teachers would never fit in buildings so small. Warner and Prayer know their only hope is to scale up, but how can two littlepoors survive in a world built against them?
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Book Teaser Tuesday: The Taxonomy of Love
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Book Teaser: American Panda
American Panda is about a Taiwanese-American girl named Mei. Mei is her parents’ dream come to life, because they charted her whole life in advance. After skipping a grade, she’s studying at MIT, bound for doctor-hood and — her mom and dad hope — having a Taiwanese husband and lots of babies. Mei doesn’t quite know how to admit to them that she hates germs and has a crush on a Japanese classmate. This truly funny debut will create instant fans for Chao who is herself a MIT dentistry grad turned writer.
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Thursday, July 5, 2018
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Book Teaser: Cruel Prince
Cruel Prince is the first in a new series from Holly Black author of The Spiderwick Chronicles and The Modern Faerie Tale series, this fantasy is exciting fans old and new. Jude, orphaned at age seven with her sisters after their parents were murdered, lives in the High Court of Faerie and wants nothing more than to belong there, except the fey despise humans like her. She must cross Prince Cardan, the wickedest son of the High King, to earn her place and, in doing so, she becomes embroiled in the palace’s many treacheries. Perfect for anyone longing for a compelling literary escape.
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