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Powell Watts’s stories explore the lives of African Americans in fast food and factory jobs, working door to door as Jehovah’s Witness ministers, and pressing against the boundaries of the small town, post-integration South. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel Stolzman reminds us what kind of stories matter, and move us, the most."-Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and The Whole World Over "Reminiscent of Ian McEwan's The Child in Time and Frederick Reichen's The Odd Sea, this is a moving and important novel. Stolzman brings this lyrical sensibility to an elegiac tale of a family's heart-stopping tragedy and hard-won redemption, in which a tarnished silence can once again be made to shine through the resonate power of love."-Foreword Magazine "At a time when cool, ironic fiction is too much the rage, here is a novel written straight from the heart, a tender yet fearless portrait of a loving family crippled by grief. "By offering her heroine's hesitant optimism through such disarmingly honest confessions, Stolzman exhibits an authentic emotional and narrative integrity, an impressive feat for a debut novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() MEG CABOT, author of The Princess Diaries Review Quotes Praise for Radha and Jais Recipe for Romance: An NPR Best Book of the Year! Well paced, authentic, and page-turning.A perceptive and textured romance. A tasty treat! Nisha Sharma always delights. ![]() With careful choreography, both Radha and Jai will need to face their fears (and their families) if they want a taste of a happily ever after. When Radha enters his life, he realizes shes the exact ingredient he needs for a show-stopping senior year. ![]() Tight family funds means medical school is a pipe dream, which is why he wants to make the most out of high school. Jai is captain of the Bollywood Beats dance team, ranked first in his class, and is an overachiever with no college plans. At the Princeton Academy of the Arts, Radha is determined to leave performing in her past and reinvent herself from scratch. Now she has left her Chicago home behind to follow her stage mom to New Jersey. until a family betrayal costs her the biggest competition of her life. Radha is on the verge of bing one of the greatest kathak dancers in the world. Book Synopsis To All the Boys I Loved Before meets World of Dance in this delectable love story that combines food, dance, and a hint of drama to cook up the perfect romance. About the Book Told in two voices, teens Radha and Jai, seniors at a New Jersey performing arts high school, reignite their passion for dance and find strength in one another to pursue their dreams. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A few nights later, however, Wesley approaches Bianca at the club again after Bianca had a particularly bad day, and Bianca spontaneously kisses Wesley in order to distract herself from her problems. Disgusted, Bianca finds her friends and leaves. He explains that he wants people to see him talking with her, because she is the DUFF, the Designated Ugly Fat Friend, and a connection with her will bring other, more attractive women to him. One January night as Casey and Jessica are dancing, another student named Wesley Rush, who has a reputation as a womanizer, approaches Bianca. Editions for Lying Out Loud: (Kindle Edition published in 2015), 0545831091 (Hardcover published in 2015), 1444928163 (Paperback published in 2015), (Kin. High school student Bianca Piper, along with her friends Casey Blithe and Jessica Gaither, frequent a teen lounge called the Nest. Kody lives in New York City, where she teaches writing workshops and continues to write books for kids and teens. ![]() A companion novel, Lying Out Loud, was released on April 28, 2015, and is set in the same universe as The DUFF. Kody is also the author of Lying Out Loud, a companion to The DUFF That's Not What Happened Run Shut Out and A Midsummer's Nightmare, as well as the middle-grade novels Lila and Hadley and The Swift Boys & Me. A film based on the novel, also entitled The DUFF, was released on February 20, 2015. Kentucky-born Kody Keplingers earliest memory is sitting at an old typewriter, pressing random keys as she told her mother the story she thought she was writing. Keplinger was 17 when she wrote the novel, which was released on September 7, 2010. ![]() The DUFF is a 2010 young adult novel by American author Kody Keplinger. Revisit Hamilton High in this MUST READ for all fans of The DUFF - co-starring Bianca and Wesley. ![]() |