Books with title Tides

“A satisfying mix of folktale, mystery, and family drama.”—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books When high school senior Noah Gallagher and his adopted teenage sister, Lo, go to live with their grandmother in her island cottage for the summer, they don't expect much in the way of adventure. Noah has landed a marine biology internship, and Lo wants to draw and paint, perhaps even to vanquish her struggles with bulimia. But then things take a dramatic turn for them both when Noah mistakenly tries to save a mysterious girl from drowning. This dreamlike, suspenseful story—deftly told from multiple points of view—dives deeply into selkie folklore while examining the fluid nature of love and family.

When high school senior Noah Gallagher and his adopted teenage sister, Lo, go to live with their grandmother in her island cottage for the summer, they don’t expect much in the way of adventure. Noah has landed a marine biology internship, and Lo wants to draw and paint, perhaps even to vanquish her struggles with bulimia. But then things take a dramatic turn for them both when Noah mistakenly tries to save a mysterious girl from drowning. This dreamlike, suspenseful story—deftly told from multiple points of view—dives deeply into selkie folklore while examining the fluid nature of love and family.

When high school senior Noah Gallagher and his adopted teenage sister, Lo, go to live with their grandmother in her island cottage for the summer, they don’t expect much in the way of adventure. Noah has landed a marine biology internship, and Lo wants to draw and paint, perhaps even to vanquish her struggles with bulimia. But then things take a dramatic turn for them both when Noah mistakenly tries to save a mysterious girl from drowning. This dreamlike, suspenseful story—deftly told from multiple points of view—dives deeply into selkie folklore while examining the fluid nature of love and family.

What happens when our planet has had enough? Naida is sickened by the way her ocean is continually violated. Feeling helpless but not alone, she turns to her family for help. Set on a path to save her ocean, Naida finds love of another kind.Will her love for Cody run as deep as the one she has for the ocean? Will this new love veer her off course or be the key she seeks? A secret looms within Naida: revealing it could cost her everything but to continue hiding it is simply . . . unnatural. Threading love, our environment, and humanity together, this story will challenge readers to see all of the life in the natural world around us.

(In 1975, two Nigerian journalists are fired from a national newspaper. The older man retires to a peaceful, rural life. The younger remains in Lagos as a freelance writer. Their professional interest, however, is aroused by threats to the environment of their Delta homeland, and the two men find themselves reunited in a project which brings them into tragic contact with the country s security organisation and political dissidents alike. Okpewho s third novel Tides raises several disturbing questions in its moral and political analysis of Nigerian society)Okpewho won the African Arts Prize for his second novel, The Last Duty .

What happens when our planet has had enough? . . .~Naida can't stand to watch the way her ocean is continually violated. Feeling helpless but not alone, she turns to her family for help. Set on a path to save her ocean, Naida finds love of another kind.Will her love for Cody run as deep as the one she has for her ocean, or will it veer her off course.A secret looms within Naida; revealing it could cost her everything but to continue hiding it is simply…unnatural. Threading love, our environment, and humanity together, this story will challenge readers to see all of the life in the natural world around us.

**Book Three in The Lightbearers Series**Time is not a friend, and death is like a shadow. Seth knows his season, and Jazzline must push through each day with the knowledge of it soon approaching, but never knowing when. Douglas has other plans for them, and it's not to help them cross off Seth's bucket list. Will she have enough faith to face the darkness and let her true light shine? Will Colin be able to let Jazzline go or will he risk everything to be the man at her side?