Years ago, Madame Verona and her husband built a home for themselves on a hill in a forest above a small village. There they lived in isolation, practicing their music, and chopping wood to see them through the cold winters. When Mr. Verona died, the locals might have expected that the legendary beauty would return to the village, but Madame Verona...more
It was in the village school playground that Kit first laid eyes on Ara and determined that they were to become best friends. Kit was ten, Ara two years older. If Kit was a scrawny little girl, quick and dynamic, Ara was large, slow, and deliberate. Kit's "greatest joy was thinking and then putting thoughts into words"; Ara was the silent, physical...more
Lea is an immaculate 30-something whose husband Harry's job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. Emancipation isn't in her vocabulary and as long as the money rolls in, all is rosy. So, when Harry Jr. arrives, she is a little traumatized at having to swap canapes for baby rusks.
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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