Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky AlbertalliLeah Burkegirl band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spiers best friend from the award winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agendatakes center stage in this novel of first love and senior year angst. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beatbut real life isnt always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, shes the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self

Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago

King Richard the Lionheart

that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself

* Learn about the six tastes and their influence on lifestyle

and a charmingly naïve mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building

Hemingway's men are bullfighters and boxers

in a midlife crisis

olives and wild herbs

the effects of which continue to reverberate within Tibet and among the Tibetan exile community today

Shot outside the offices of MI6 and left for dead by Scorpia

Think like a child—because you’ll come up with better ideas and ask better questions

I thought I had become a different person forever