You think that its going to be about the money, but it isn't. Aza's spirals felt very real and very tangible and too, too familiar. My brain naturally squirms away from this pain. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of his other books, but this one felt very different and it’s one of my new favourite books! Months later, the world is as confused as ever. Wil Wheaton, Narrateur(s): It provides a voice to the very abstract in a wonderfully accurate and complex manner that is very hard to find. No longer a front-runner for Homecoming King, Ezra finds himself at the table of misfits, where he encounters new girl Cassidy Thorpe. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q...until day breaks and she has vanished. His man accolades include the Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, and the . The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold! En su nueva y esperada novela, John Green, el aclamado y premiado autor de Bajo la misma estrella y Buscando a Alaska, nos cuenta la historia de Aza con una claridad desgarradora e inquebrantable. Kate Rudd is a great narrator as well, giving the already lively book a brilliant performance. The Carls just appeared. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. It's 1:47 am on the 11/10/17 as I type this. She promised her parents she would at least try to pretend that she could act like a functioning human this time, not a girl who can’t get out of bed for days on end, who only feels awake when she’s with Sebby. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? Goodreads Choice Award for the best young adult novel of the year! . You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser. But in the end, I loved it! Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox: Love, Simon, William C. Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist, "A remarkable gift of a novel. I can see some of my reactions to the book in the characters reaction in the book. John Green deftly mixes the profound and the quotidian in this tough, touching valentine to the human spirit. “Narrator Kate Rudd dramatizes the quick intelligence and high anxiety of high school junior Aza Holmes, who has an incapacitating fear of being infected with a deadly bacteria. The man who never reads lives only one.”. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. Oliver Thorn, I wish Green hadn't written Aza Holmes as already seeing a therapist and in possession of prescribed medication, because Aza's resistance to taking her meds makes her anxieties not just a curse, but also a choice. Additionally, given John Green's foreshadowing I felt the main 'mystery clue' Aza was trying to solve was obvious, and thus it was very frustrating when she continually brought it up throughout the book. “So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung.”  (The New York Times). Unfortunately, Kate Rudd's narration robbed this book of being a four or five star read for me. Lindsay Ellis, Narrateur(s): I admire his deft hand in creating adolescent characters: they're silly and insecure one moment, dramatic and self-importantly profound the next. But there are clues. A modern classic, this stunning debut marked #1 bestselling author John Green’s arrival as a groundbreaking new voice in contemporary fiction. All the Bright Places Movie Tie-In Edition, Cookies help us deliver our services. Right? . Kate Rudd, Auteur(s): Stephen Chbosky, Narrateur(s): And they’re for Q. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. This New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge is soon to be a Netflix film starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith! ★ “A deeply resonant and powerful novel that will inform and enlighten readers even as it breaks their hearts. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life - and she's really good at it. Send this book as a Gift! In the tradition of Before I Fall and If I Stay, They Both Die at the End is a tour de force from acclaimed author Adam Silvera, whose debut, More Happy Than Not, the New York Times called “profound.”. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. . At times I thought a computer was reading it! The 16 yo did not pay attention. I know, from reading the "glowing book reviews" than John Green knows of what he writes. I'm not usually a fan of audiobooks, as I prefer pacing the story according to my emotional responses, but Kate Rudd delivers an entrancing performance that I was unable to stop listening to for longer than 10 minutes, even though I got this book way too late in the day for it to be appropriate to consume it in one sitting. I'm not the kind of person who really get emotional over books, in my long book reading history I can only name a few that actually made me feel and this book is the newest addition. First friend. try any audiobook Free! Meanwhile, Molly's totally not dying of loneliness—except for the part where she is. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. “Heart-fluttering, honest, and hilarious. Only Simon never makes it out of that classroom. This novel is by far [Green’s] most difficult to read. sometimes, I cried, or it hurt to listen. I finished it in one day. She’s an anomaly in her friend group: the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. The main character is annoying but relatable and you almost feel bad because you know she knows she’s annoying. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death. New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 * A Bustle Best YA Novel of 2017 * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book of 2017 * A Book Riot Best Queer Book of 2017 * A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year. An incredibly powerful tale of the pain of mental illness, the pressures of youth, and coming of age when you feel like you’re coming undone. Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Sorry Kate, but yikes! News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world - everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires - and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense media spotlight. Turtles All the Way Down audiobook written by John Green. Named a best book of the year by: The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, A.V. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Although this is a huge perk, it does make the arguing scenes very stressful to listen to because it feels like you are hearing two people genuinely upset with each other instead of just reading them arguing as words on paper. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. A must-buy. The shrink scenes were funny but also realistic. John Green is an award-winning author of several books, including New York Times bestselling Looking for Alaska. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended. Mira is starting over at Saint Francis Prep. John Green, Narrateur(s): Give as a Gift. On Monday afternoon five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Kim Mai Guest, But the parents aren't really the focus of the story (which I also love because it means I get to "be" a teenager again). Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. As a psychologist for teens, as a mom, and as a person, I loved this book. for love with this #1 New York Times bestseller. It's about Aza. The story line is a fine foil to tell the real message: It sucks to have an anxiety distorter. 2 Formats: ... Blackstone Library is your one-stop shop for audiobooks. Karen M. McManus, Narrateur(s): But as Ezra dives into his new studies, new friendships, and new love, he learns that some people, like books, are easy to misread. Add to Cart. If you’re expecting another John Green novel about young love then this is not the one. A brilliant depiction of the inexorable though machinations and compulsions of an anxious OCD mind as well as the clumsy reality of teenage relational intimacies. Even as life in his foster home starts to take its toll, Sebby and Mira together craft a world of magic rituals and impromptu road trips, designed to fix the broken parts of their lives. There's only one problem: Molly's coworker, Reid. Sebby, Mira’s gay best friend, is a boy who seems to carry sunlight around with him . The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. A powerful tale for teens (and adults) about anxiety, love and friendship. We are dedicated to providing top-quality audio content, offering over 25,000 unabridged titles—with more than 500 new releases and 75 exclusive titles added each month. "—Alex Sanchez, Lambda Award-winning author of Rainbow Boys and Boyfriends with Girlfriends. So maybe a desperately lonely teenager whos mom was dead and dad abandoned him would do that... but seems unlikely to me. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. Set over the course of one school year, in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits - smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship - the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant.