04824cam a2200733 4500 468419471 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780735211193 0735211191 B01N1U8J3T Amazon 41b02bd5-16ba-4b4b-82ea-6f10a8326867 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3081692 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tallent, Gabriel. My Absolute Darling [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3087kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 3087kB. books for middle school girls. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. best books for young adults. best seller books for women. book club recommendations. best books for book clubs. young adult gifts women. best books for women. best books of 2017. Pacific Northwest. History of Wolves. literary fiction. adventure books. books for women. best books 2017. salt lake city. Coming of age. grandfather. Adolescence. Friendship. wilderness. California. motherless. Adventure. mendocino. daughter. survival. teenager. Literary. Fiction. family. Nature. father. Drama. novel. HTML:<b>INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br /> <i>LA TIMES</i> BOOK PRIZE FINALIST<br /> NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST<br /> ONE OF THE <i>NEW YORK TIMES'S</i> MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017<br /> ONE OF THE <i>WASHINGTON POST'S</i> MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017<br /> ONE OF NPR'S 'GREAT READS' OF 2017<br /> A <i>USA TODAY</i> BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR<br /> AN AMAZON.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR<br /> A <i>BUSINESS INSIDER</i> BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR<br /> <br /> "Impossible to put down." <i>—</i>NPR<br /> "A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping." —<i>The Washington Post</i><br /> <br /> "The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but <i>My Absolute Darling</i> absolutely is one." —Stephen King<br /> <br /> A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.</b><br /> Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father.<br /> Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. With Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, the reader watches, heart in throat, as this teenage girl struggles to become her own hero—and in the process, becomes ours as well.<br /> Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, <i>My Absolute Darling</i> is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. Literature. Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=41b02bd5-16ba-4b4b-82ea-6f10a8326867&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=41b02bd5-16ba-4b4b-82ea-6f10a8326867&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=41b02bd5-16ba-4b4b-82ea-6f10a8326867&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)