'There are things even love can't do... If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love...' Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has trie...(展开全部)

“Stunning and heart-gripping.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson—“the French Brokeback Mountain” (Elle)—about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald. We drive at high ...(展开全部)

Rosie the hen leaves the chicken coop and sets out for a little walk. Right behind her is the fox, slyly trying to catch up with her. Rosie's walk is quiet, uneventful and eventually leads her back to the coop, blissfully unaware of the fox's travails as he tries -- unsuccessfully -- to navigate the obstacle course that Rosie has led him through.

The Fox is after Rosie, but Rosie doesn't know it. Unwittingly, she leads him into one disaster after the other, each funnier than the last. To enjoy Rosie's walk as much as Rosie does, just look inside!

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time--unti...(展开全部)

A Walk on the Widers Side Other people die of mumps Or general decay, Of fevers, chills or other ills But Wilders walk away. That's the little ditty they all sing in the quaintly picturesque New England village of Wilders Lane. That's part of the mystery too, of course. You see from pre-Revolutionary War times on, members of the Wilder family never die; they walk way-disappear ...(展开全部)

A Walk on the Widers Side Other people die of mumps Or general decay, Of fevers, chills or other ills But Wilders walk away. That's the little ditty they all sing in the quaintly picturesque New England village of Wilders Lane. That's part of the mystery too, of course. You see from pre-Revolutionary War times on, members of the Wilder family never die; they walk way-disappear ...(展开全部)

<BLOCKQUOTE> "How about a story? Spin us a yarn." Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. "I could tell you an extensively strange story," I warned. "Oh, good!" Gram said. "Delicious!" And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic.</P></BLOCKQUOTE> As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her ow...(展开全部)

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route and Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left