Making Faces
by Amy
Harmon
Ambrose Young
was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders
and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the
covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them
since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never
someone Fern thought she could have...until he wasn't beautiful
anymore.
Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go
off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss,
individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale
of one girl's love for a broken boy, and a wounded warrior's love for an
unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache,
heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the
Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in all
of us.
There
once was a little girl Fern, with curly red hair, freckled, who felt a
little ugly, who loved reading and writing romance novels imagining her prince
charming. She always dreamed of tall, dark, muscular, with long hair, confident
and sport champion: she dreamed and loved Ambrose Young. She was
invisible to his eyes until a fortuitous exchange of letters is a glimpse of the
soul of each other but a chink too small so that can't make a difference at the
time. And then comes the September 11, 2001 and America is brought to its knees
by the attack on the twin towers, an event that marked the United States and
beyond.
"Maybe we just don't recognize the
blessings that come as a result of terrible things"
Ambrose joined the army and with
him, his four friends, and here the life of the student, son, model athlete
undergoes a turn that will put him to hell. When the soldier falls almost two
years after the mission in Iraq in his village nothing will be as before: he was
taken away his beauty, he was taken away his dignity, he has been taken away his
friends ... he was taken away the peace and life!
"If God makes all our faces,
did he laugh when he made me?"
But Fern continues to see
in him only the man she loved in high school and that although he is scarred, he
is back on his feet from the Army. His Ambrose is back and he needs her to find
himself, to be able to accept what happened, to shake off the guilt that haunts
him ... and Fern will be there as a gift of God ready to give all the love and
attention he needs to.
Ambrose does not feel, however, the height of the love
of Fern, she has become so cute no one will ever want to be with a monster like
him ... it seems the roles are reversed but the same Fern still suffers from the
syndrome of 'ugly' girl who always makes her feel inadequate.
"Have you been
nobody?...
Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they
fail."
Making faces is more than a
love story - is a story that teaches us to overcome the difficulties of life
with courage. In this book, every page, every line of dialogue, every word is
deeply meaningful, all history is pervaded by constant references to religious
and spiritual nevertheless perfectly match the development of the events without
being pretentious or false moralist. This is a novel with a unique message
about true beauty and on second chances, it's a heartbreaking story of intense
love, friendship, heroism, of loss and knowing how to accept
yourself.
A
special shoutout to character of Bailey who brings together these two
protagonist. He will be able, in spite of his disability, to give lessons of
life to everyone and make us feel children, able to complain of anything having
everything.
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if you love exciting stories, full of love and that leave a mark of course you
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Young Adult
The Fault In Our
Stars
by John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle
that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her
final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named
Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is
about to be completely rewritten.
Romance
The
Will
by Kristen Ashley
Early in
her life, Josephine Malone learned the hard way that there was only one person
she could love and trust: her grandmother, Lydia Malone. Out of necessity,
unconsciously and very successfully, Josephine donned a disguise to keep all
others at bay. She led a globetrotting lifestyle on the fringes of the fashion
and music elite, but she kept herself distant.
While Josephine was
trotting the globe, retired boxer Jake Spear was living in the same small town
as Lydia. There was nothing disguised about Jake. Including the fact he made a
habit of making very bad decisions about who to give his love.
But for
Josephine and Jake, there was one person who adored them. One person who knew
how to lead them to happiness. And one person who was intent on doing it.
Even if she had to do it as her final wish on this earth.
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Annie's Song
by
Catherine
Anderson
Annie Trimble
lives in a solitary world that no one enters or understands. As delicate and
beautiful as the tender blossoms of the Oregon spring, she is shunned by a town
that misinterprets her affliction. But cruelty cannot destroy the love Annie
holds in her heart.
Alex Montgomery is horrified to learn his wild younger brother
forced himself on a helpless "idiot girl." Tormented by guilt, Alex agrees to
marry her and raise the babe she carries as his own. But he never dreams he will
grow to cherish his lovely, mute, and misjudged Annie; her childlike innocence,
her womanly charms and the wondrous way she views her world. He becomes
determined to break through the wall of silence surrounding her; to heal... and
to be healed by Annie's sweet song of love.
Classics
The little Prince
by Antoine De Saint-Exupry
A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a
prince on a planet.
Paranormal
Hush Hush
by Becca Fitzpatrick
A SACRED OATH
A FALLEN ANGEL
A FORBIDDEN
LOVE
Romance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been
particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best
friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy
smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her
better judgment.
But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not
sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more
about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall
into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she
finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes
her feel.
For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the
immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the
wrong choice will cost Nora her life.
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