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Dash & Lily's Book of Dares centers on the two titular, book-loving New Yorkers. Dash and Lily both frequent the famous Strand bookstore, but they couldn't be less alike. He's a broody guy who takes everything seriously and doesn't like people all that much, and she's a dog walker and amateur baker who lives and feels with her whole being.
As the novel opens, Dash and Lily have never met. What brings them together is the notebook Lily has stashed next to a copy of J.D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey. The book contains a dare and a request: for whoever completes her challenge to leave the notebook, and a challenge of their own, at a marked destination. Dash takes Lily up on her dare, leaving one of his own behind, and the two teens trade the notebook back and forth throughout the novel, traipsing around NYC in order to do so. (Bustle).
A novel in two intertwining stories, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and ruptures of entering adulthood. Franny Glass and Lane Coutell are the perfect campus couple: beautiful, intelligent, their whole lives ahead of them. But on the weekend of the big game, when Franny comes to visit, something goes wrong and tensions begin to surface.
Franny's older brother is Zooey. They come from a sophisticated and highly eccentric family: all seven Glass siblings are former child stars, each in their own way charismatic and yet damaged. And when Franny's anxiety spirals into a more serious breakdown, Zooey is the only one who might be able to reach her.
Enduringly resonant, incisive and expansive in both sense of that word, it is unmistakeably the work of a master. (Penguin)
Two years ago Eva Khatchadourian’s son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a popular teacher. Now, in a series of letters to her absent husband, Eva recounts the story of how Kevin came to be Kevin. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault? When did it all start to go wrong? (Text Publishing).
Of all Jane Austen’s great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance. Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish Sir Walter Elliot, is woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen she fell in love with—and was engaged to—a naval officer, the fearless and headstrong Captain Wentworth. But the young man had no fortune, and Anne allowed herself to be persuaded to give him up. Now, eight years later, Wentworth has returned to the neighborhood, a rich man and still unwed. Anne’s never-diminished love is muffled by her pride, and he seems cold and unforgiving. What happens as the two are thrown together in the social world of Bath—and as an eager new suitor appears for Anne—is touchingly and wittily told in a masterpiece that is also one of the most entrancing novels in the English language. (Penguin Random House).
In the scene above, Anne has just received a note from Captain Wentworth.
The Outsiders is an outstanding story of teenage rebellion, written when the author was only 17 years old. Youngsters in a small Oklahoma town have split into two gangs, divided by money, tastes and attitude. The Socs' idea of having a good time is beating up Greasers like Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy knows what to expect and knows he can count on his brothers and friends - until the night someone takes things too far. (Penguin).
Ponyboy's world is turned upside down and he runs away, but another accident provides an opportunity for redemption.
It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey--a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book--she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books--and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever. (Allen & Unwin).