{"id":176,"date":"2021-02-12T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T09:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/?p=176"},"modified":"2021-02-10T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T09:03:50","slug":"y-z-on-borrow-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/kwacadlibrary\/2021\/02\/12\/y-z-on-borrow-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Y-Z on Borrow Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

Borrow Box<\/a>\u00a0 from North Ayrshire Libraries have thousands of eBooks and audio books available for loan. For more information see their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today,\u00a0 the A-Z of authors concludes. But there thousands more to discover on Borrow Box – have a look!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Y is for Yanagihara<\/strong> – Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life” – an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and\"\" the limits of human endurance.\u00a0 When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they’re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.<\/p>\n

Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome – but that will define his life forever. (For senior pupils and adults).<\/p>\n

Z is for Zusak<\/strong> – Marcus Zusak’s “The Book Thief”. Set in 1939, Nazi Germany is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.<\/p>\n

By her brother\u2019s graveside, Liesel\u2019s life is changed when she picks up\"\" a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger\u2019s Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor\u2019s wife\u2019s library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel\u2019s foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel\u2019s world is both opened up, and closed down.<\/p>\n

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