Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Written by a veterinarian and brimming with bravery and beauty, this poignant and satisfying story about acting for the greater good "(Publishers Weekly") taps into the radiance of nature and dives into the important, timely issue of environmental protection and ecology." When a baby albino dolphin caught in old fishing netting washes ashore, Felix and Kara work with vets and specialists to save her and reunite her with her mother, setting off a chain of events that might just save the reef. That s what the town needs.īut what the town gets is an unexpected new kid, a Paralympics sailing hopeful named Felix. Dredging the reef will mean fisherman can reel in more money. They ve had it with Kara s family and their devotion to protecting marine life and saving the reef. But it s more than a broken nose to Jake s family: It s fuel for the fire. Kara is not sorry she punched Jake in the nose she simply couldn t stand to hear him say one more nasty thing about her missing mother, or her out-of-work father or her. A mother dolphin and her albino calf are in peril in this heart-pounding adventure from the author of the acclaimed ecological novel "Wild Wings."
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Nor does she realize how dangerous the search for him will be. She doesn’t know where he’s going, or why he’s leaving. But there is one face she recognizes-that of her husband, from before she knew him.When her husband sees the photo that night, he leaves their home and drives off without explanation. She finds an odd one in the pack: a mysterious picture from perhaps twenty years ago, showing four strangers she can’t identify. After picking up her two young children from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs. An ordinary snapshot causes a mother’s world to unravel in an instant. A key text of the so-called Latin American "boom", Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes have both credited it with modernising Latin-American literary language, while Gabriel García Márquez paid homage by alluding to it in One Hundred Years of Solitude. More importantly, Hopscotch was influential in terms of the shifting registers and jazz-influenced riffs of its prose. Hopscotch's reputation comes partly from its experimental form: a three-part novel comprising numbered paragraphs, it can be read according to an alternative, non-linear pattern in which the final section becomes a metatextual commentary on the first two. Known-of rather than widely read, some recognition is still afforded him as the author of the 1963 novel Hopscotch, and also of the excellent short story from which Blowup, Michelangelo Antonioni's iconic depiction of Swinging 60s London, was liberally adapted. Since his death in 1984, Argentine novelist, poet and short story writer Julio Cortázar's reputation in the English-speaking world has fluctuated, the trend heading more towards a waning than a waxing. |