Celebrating 25 years of The Notebook - the classic novel which became the heart-wrenching film.
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Once again, just as I do every day, I begin to read the notebook aloud...
Noah Calhoun has returned from war and, in an attempt to escape the ghosts of battle, he sets his mind and his body to restoring an old plantation home to its former beauty.
But he is haunted by memories of the beautiful girl he met there years before. A girl who stole his heart at the funfair, whose parents didn't approve, a girl he wrote to every day for…
“Rupi Kaur is the Writer of the Decade.” — The New Republic
From rupi kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.
Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.
It is the early 1930s, and a little girl named Diane and her older brother, Christopher, are sent away to live at their grandmother’s house for a week. But what Diane does not know is that the secret garden, that is forbidden, is magical. The garden always speaks to her, but Christopher does not believe that is true. Will Diane be able to convince her brother, find out her grandmother’s darkest secret, and possibly prove that she is the garden warrior she is supposed to become?