Nicholas Sparks
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Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 105 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 75 million copies in the United States alone. Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010), The Best of Me (2011), and The Longest Ride (2013) as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah. His eighteenth novel, See Me, published on October 12, 2015. His newest book, Two by Two, will be published on October 4, 2016. Film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song, have had a cumulative worldwide gross of over three-quarters of a billion dollars. In 2012, Sparks and his publishing agent and creative partner Theresa Park, launched Nicholas Sparks Productions, with Park as President of Production. A film version of The Guardian is currently in development, as is a film based on Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers’s friendship with Chicago Bears teammate Brian Piccolo. Sparks lives in North Carolina. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually. He co-founded The Epiphany School in New Bern, North Carolina in 2006. As a former full scholarship athlete (he still holds a track and field record at the University of Notre Dame) he also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at the local public high school. In 2009, the team he coached at New Bern High School set a World Junior Indoor Record in the 4 x400 meter, in New York. The record still stands. Click to watch the Runner’s World video with Nicholas. The Nicholas Sparks Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to improving cultural and international understanding through global education experiences for students of all ages was launched in 2011. Between the foundation, and the personal gifts of the Sparks family, more than $15 million dollars have been distributed to deserving charities, scholarship programs, and projects. Because the Sparks family covers all operational expenses of the foundation, 100% of donations are devoted to programs.
Books
Rescue!
A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust.
Two by Two
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The Notebook
Sent to a remote village for the duration of the war, two children devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to pain and sentiment. They steal, kill, blackmail and survive; others - the cobbler, the harelipped girl who craves love, the childre's parents - are sucked into war's brutal maelstrom.
The Return
Desta and the other members of her Falasha family, Jews suffering from discrimination in Ethiopia, finally flee the country and attempt the dangerous journey to Israel.
Premier regard
Un seul regard leur a suffi pour tomber amoureux. Mais le destin frappe souvent là où on ne l'attend pas ... Dans la petite ville de Boone Creek, Jeremy Marsh et Lexie Darnell attendent un enfant. En apparence, leur bonheur devrait s'annoncer sans nuages. Pourtant, à l'approche de leur mariage, le couple s'interroge. Construire une vie à deux n'est pas chose facile pour ceux qui ont déjà eu le coeur brisé. Aussi, lorsque des courriers anonymes suggèrent une infidélité, qu'un ancien amant se fait trop présent, et qu'en plus la santé de l'enfant à naître est en danger, tout est en passe de basculer. [4e de couverture]
Fantasmas del pasado
Jeremy Marsh, periodista especializado en desenmascarar fraudes con apariencia de hechos sobrenaturales, viaja a Boone Creek, una pequena localidad de Carolina del Norte, en busca de la causa real que se esconde detras de unas apariciones fantasmagoricas en el cementerio del pueblo. Pero Jeremy ha de enfrentarse a algo verdaderamente inesperado, para lo que esta vez su razon no tiene respuesta: el encuentro con Lexie Darnell, la nieta de la vidente del pueblo. El dilema no tardara en surgir: si la joven pareja quiere empezar a construir un futuro en comun, Jeremy debera elegir entre regresar a su vida en Nueva York y arriesgarse a otorgar un voto de confianza a la fe ciega, en la que nunca habia creido.--Back cover. Jeremy Marsh, a science journalist and professional skeptic, finds himself in over his head when he arrives at the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, and falls head over heels for the granddaughter of the supposed town psychic.
The Rescue
Dear John
When John meets Savannah, the attraction is mutual and love quickly flourishes. John realises he is ready to make some changes - always the angry rebel at school, he has enlisted in the army, not knowing what else to do with his life. Now he's ready to turn over a new leaf for the woman who has captured his heart. What neither realises is that the events of 9/11 will change everything. John is prompted to re-enlist and fulfil what he feels is his duty to his country. But he and Savannah are young and their separation is long. Can their love survive the distance? Some years later, when John returns to North Carolina and the woman he left behind, he realises he must make the hardest decision of his life.