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We gift ourselves for this wonderful first year Lois Lowry, double winner of the Newbury Medal, author of 53 books, and a real person. We went on a journey again with her only to pick her brains, Lois with her wealth of 86 years of experience, 86 years of it, took us on a journey, through her own head. The imaginary discourse with the author in our cranium took flesh and blood form.

It makes us happy to share the gift with you ‘Interactions with Lois Lowry - The Giver’, a 4-part podcast series.

The Giver is about a futuristic society that has eliminated all pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is no prejudice and no competition, only Sameness. Everyone is unfailingly polite. Citizens can apply for and be assigned compatible spouses, and each couple is assigned children, exactly two.

The Giver is written from the point of view of Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society

Set in a German-occupied Denmark in WWII, 'Number the Stars' tells the story of a teenaged Annemarie Johansen. When the German occupation becomes increasingly hostile, the writing is on the wall for the Jews. The Johansen's are ordinary people that took extraordinary risks to stand against injustice in the only way they knew how. They become active in the resistance movement, helping to smuggle targeted groups of people to safety. Annemarie and her family helped rescue her best friend, Ellen Rosen, and her family.

Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic fairy tales.

The Wishing Spell has been written as a straight up parody of faerie tales, it was a clever way to portray how modern children would react to villains from old stories they knew well.

Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo. Werner Pfennig, an orphan, becomes an expert at building and fixing crucial new instruments to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

A newly minted 'brilliant' book, the book has just started to lose its lustre in the puzzle enthusiast section of the reading community. The book is an elating mixture of puzzling and daring brilliance, alongside pure refreshing human characters, and love interests.

It Ends with Us is the most daring and painful book Colleen Hoover has ever written. Abuse and domestic violence is a delicate subject And to entwine it with romance - a tear jerker for sure! The story is an emotional roller coaster from start to finish. Of course there are clichés and usual stuff but certain portions are about of the world. There is no black and white characterization - it's much deeper and more complex than that, and therefore, far more emotional.

Separated by history and geography, the story of three children and their families who had to escape their violent homelands, to survive. Only if they survive the escape. Unaccepted and unwelcome by the world, they have to be lucky! 

1939, 1994, 2015; Germany, Cuba, Syria. Has the world changed? We are responsible for the Lost Generations. That is the premise of Alan Gratz’s Refugee.

Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy

The orphaned Dorothy lives on the Kansas prairie with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry and her little black dog, Toto. When a cyclone hits, Dorothy is looking for Toto, so she doesn’t get to the cyclone cellar in time. Suddenly, the cyclone lifts the house with Dorothy and Toto inside high in the air. Dorothy wakes up in the Land of Oz.