Hope: A Tragedy

Hope: A TragedyBy: Shalom Auslander Possibly the funniest novel of the decade' Sunday Times, Books of the Decade 2010 2019 Solomon Kugel has had enough of the past and its burdens. So, in the hope of starting afresh, he moved his family to a small rural town where nothing of import has ever happened. Sadly, Kugels life isnt that simple. His family soon find themselves threatened by a local arsonist and his ailing mother won't stop reminiscing about the Nazi

By: Anna Milbourne | Illustrator:  Simona Dimitri | Series: Peep Inside Peep under leaves and behind doors to see the animals in the zoo in this delightful flap book for young children

23 November

the three women have been enjoying happy hour when their boys

There’s something about the quietly competent

And war makes you do dangerous things

Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam

Zambreno captures the isolation and exhaustion of being home with a baby and a small child

and he waits

his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps

audacious life you want is on the other side of doing the things that will scare you

By: James Weldon Johnson     Introduced by Maya Angelou

It turns out that talking to strangers can teach you about the world around you--and even more about yourself