Sherpa, A New Beginning

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Recently retired Harold Fry lives in a small English village with a wife who seems to be annoyed by his every move. When he receives a goodbye letter from Queenie, a woman from his past who is now in hospice, he decides he needs to deliver his response in person, and sets off on 600-mile quest. A man named Milo has only five chances left (having already lived 9,995 lives) to solve the puzzle that is existence and earn a spot in the "cosmic soul." But all he really wants is to spend more time with the love of his many lives — Death herself. When artist and single mother Mia Warren moves into a Cleveland suburb with her teenage daughter, the duo disrupt the quiet, organized community with their mysterious past and rejection of the status quo. And when Mia clashes with Elena Robinson — one of the community's more upstanding citizens, and Mia's landlord — Elena sets out on an obsessive and destructive mission to uncover Mia's secrets. I know it's a classic, but I love it. To me it epitomizes the idea of a second chance, not only for Rochester, but also for Jane, who is given multiple chances at having a family." —Ariel Teague Can't remember the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth

The narrator of The Enchanted is in prison on death row, but he sees his dark surroundings as full of magic — including recurring characters like the woman hired to help men escape execution and the warden who delivers them to their death. Through the stories of elders such as Kanchha Sherpa, who assisted on the early missions in the 1950s, and Sirdar Mingma Chhiring Sherpa, a first-generation trekking guard, they trace the history of the industry’s development. After her mother Ingrid, the brilliant but flawed poet, is imprisoned for murder, Astrid is sent on a journey through the Los Angeles foster home system — each stop is a place of pain, discovery, and growth.Violet and Amber are trapped in their own ways — Violet, by a secret in her past; Amber, by the literal walls of the girls' juvenile detention center she's in. Tying them together is the ghost of Orianna — the only person who knows truth of what really happened to Amber and Violet, and who holds the key to their freedom. The authors also describe their travels to the Sherpas’ villages and homes, offering an insight into the dramatic geography of the region, and details such as the food they grow and eat, including nettles, potatoes, and millet, and the ways they build their houses with mud, stones and tin-sheeted roofs. Changes The classic coming-of-age story of Jane Eyre as she grows into an adult and falls in love with Mr. Rochester.

The climbers’ stories speak not only of the great triumph of standing on the top of the world, often multiple times, but also of the tragedies they have all endured. There are about 114 000 Sherpas living in Nepal and China. Despite this small population, of the approximately 300 climbers who have died climbing Everest, more than one-third have been Sherpas. After the camper van he calls home breaks down, Sherpa leaves the countryside and travels into the city in search of adventure. The shepherd Santiago is desperate to fulfill his destiny, and The Alchemist is his journey across the Egyptian desert in search of it. Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman are true work nemeses — they aren't simply annoyed by each other; they detest each other. But when they're up for the same promotion, their competitive and passive-aggressive games morph into something more like sexual tension.They interview multiple generations of mountain climbers within families, including Tenzing Norgay’s son Jamling Tenzing Norgay, who takes them through his family’s private museum dedicated to his father. And they talk to younger climbers who represent the future of mountain climbing, including, refreshingly, many women. The story revolves around Kana being introduced to the idea of two men marrying, which she finds fascinating, but also utterly normal (but she's surprised at being related to a 'foreigner'). It also focuses on Yaichi trying to understand his estranged brother through his husband, and accepting his homosexuality posthumously. In the land of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, 19-year-old Elena Klovis lives at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and stepsisters. But there's a magical force that promises happily ever afters to deserving men and women — and Elena's fairy godmother helps her escape the evil that intends to keep Elena from hers. The most moving stories are those of Chomolangma’s widows and their differing attempts to deal with grief and loss. By using long passages of reported speech, Bashyal and Adhikari let the widows speak to us directly. We meet Furdiki Sherpa and Nima Doma Sherpa, who met up after their husbands both died on the mountain and decided to climb it together. Pearl Brandt and her mother Winnie Louie have kept secrets from each other for most of their lives — Winnie doesn't know Pearl has multiple sclerosis; Pearl doesn't know anything about Winnie's traumatic past in China during World War II, before her move to the US. When Pearl's aunt Helen gives both an ultimatum — tell each other the truth, or she will — the two are forced to open up to each other, and grow closer in the process.