by Bookworm
J.K. Rowling
Roddy Doyle is an absolute genius!
The Giggler Treatment is a funny book that takes place in Ireland. The chapter names are funny. For example, there is a chapter called Chapter Mammy Doyle because she said he could stay up late if he named a chapter after her. Different parts of the story are also funny. For example, there was one chapter that has nothing much in it except one very exciting thing at the end, and the very exciting thing was that a lady was walking in a park in Bombay and she nearly stepped on a snail. There is a voice in the book that said, “That wasn’t exciting!” And then, the narrator says, “Well, the snail thought it was.” It also teaches you Irish words, such as “giving out” which means “scolding and complaining.” It says in the book that “parents are very good at it and they do it a lot.” In the book, there are little creatures called [click to continue...]
by Bookworm
Book Description
Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?
Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elner’s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner’s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; [click to continue...]
by Bookworm
Book Description
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter “Y2K to March 2004,” what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world’s two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this “flattening” of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?
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by Bookworm
Synopsis
Ask Annie your most complex interpersonal relationship questions. Go on, we dare you!
All letters to Annie are subject to publication in the Clayton High School Register. Names and e-mail addresses of correspondents guaranteed confidential.
High school junior Jenny Greenley is good at solving problems … so good she’s the school newspaper’s anonymous advice columnist. Even if solving other people’s problems doesn’t make her own — like not having a boyfriend — go away, it’s still fun. But when nineteen-year-old screen sensation Luke Striker comes to Jen’s small town to research a role, [click to continue...]
by Bookworm
“MJ Rose writes fearlessly about sex. This is a true erotic thriller. The end will take your breath away.” –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Lisa Tucker, author of Shout Down the Moon
Welcome to the world of Dr. Morgan Snow. Gritty, sexy, and full of shocks, surprises and mysteries as tightly wound as a noose. Smart and vulnerable, Snow goes undercover and takes us all with her, plunging us into a world so suspenseful I could hardly breathe. I’ve loved all of M J Rose’s books, but this one can only be described as masterpiece.
Book Description
At the Butterfield Institute Dr. Morgan Snow, one of New York’s top sex therapists, sees everything from the abused to the depraved, from couples grappling with sexual boredom to twisted sociopaths with dark, erotic fetishes.
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