a rubber band

proper vicar's daughter

An essential collection of chivalric romance

the books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented

The Giver (Giver Quartet, Book 1) Cycling a rubber bandA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve year old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Lois Lowry has written