Flybird's Nest

  Paperback The Midnight Library Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe, there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In  The Midnight Library , Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed, faces this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. **** Book ID Title: The Midnight Library A

  The Four Winds  “ My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family .” Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. In this unc

  25th Anniversary Edition Author : Sandra Cisneros Pages : 110 Publisher : Vintage Books First Published on 1984 Genre : Classics *** Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world,  The House on Mango Street  is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous–it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers. *** Where have I been? That thought lingering on my mind during reading The House on Mango Street. How can I just know about this book for so long? The House on Mango Street is a novella or maybe collections of fragments of stories about a young girl's life in Mango Street, a Latino section in Chicago.  The protagonist is Esperanza, a young girl who lives in

  First Person Singular Hardcover The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist. *** First Person Singular : Stories Author : Haruki Murakami  Published Date : 06 April 2021 Genre : Short Collection Stories What I find strange about growing old isn't that I've gotten older. Not that youthful me from the past has, without my realizing it, aged. What catches me off guard is, rather, how people from the same generation as me have become elde