false 5409442 1 Cora Bradley dreams of escape. Ever since her reckless older brother, Nate, died in a car crash, Cora has felt suffocated by her small town and high school. She seeks solace in drawing beautiful maps, envisioning herself in exotic locales. When Cora begins to fall for Damian, the handsome, brooding boy who was in the car with Nate the night he died, she uncovers her brother's secret artistic life and realizes she had more in common with him than she ever imagined. With stunning lyricism, Sandell weaves a tale of one girl's journey through the redemptive powers of art, friendship, and love. <i>They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.</I> <p>-- extract. <p> 5476981 15 4 2009 A Map of the Known World total:192|5:51|4:74|3:51|2:14|1:2| 192 734 653 69 4 2 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jan 20 16:01:23 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 30 12:51:13 -0700 2009
Another great novel. I’ve been reading so many lately! A ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 14:51:58 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 17:30:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jan 11 18:06:23 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 18:06:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jul 05 21:34:31 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 21:35:52 -0700 2009 The warmth of a loving household grows cold the moment Cora Bradley’s family loses Nate, the pugnacious son and reckless older brother, in a car accident. The first day of high school arrives, and Cora must enter the world where so many people knew her notoriously troublesome brother. Her ar...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Apr 08 17:20:34 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 17:24:23 -0700 2009
Anger and pain consume Cora; they have since last year when her brother died.

Now her family's broken, barely speaking to each other and barely surviving. Nate's the one who died, but Cora feels the brunt of her parent's disappoi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 09:40:40 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 09:44:30 -0700 2009 Lisa Ann Sandell's A MAP OF THE KNOWN WORLD. Ever since I read and loved Sandell's Song of the Sparrow, I have been eager to see what she would write next. I knew it would probably be something quite different. It both was and it wasn't. ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 10:40:32 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 12:45:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 10:35:50 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 13:38:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 14 20:50:51 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 20:50:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 12:05:10 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 19:28:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 20:36:11 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 08:05:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Apr 21 11:29:38 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 11:30:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 27 07:48:17 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 07:48:57 -0700 2009
Now to the book. Cora’s brother Nate dies in a car accident which suddenly breaks the entire family as each one of them tries to deal with his death in their own ways. The ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 15:07:58 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 15:11:41 -0700 2009
Like, okay, Twilight--not well-written, everything was unrealisti...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 16:42:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 16:42:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 19:45:23 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 10:51:27 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 29 01:54:44 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 01:55:15 -0700 2009
I was able to read the entire book in a few hours so I can attest that this book isn't boring (it kept me interested in finding out what happened next); however, as the book progressed, the romance (one of the main features of the st...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jul 05 15:20:56 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 17:30:09 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 15:20:56 -0700 2009
The saving grace of the book was the involvement i...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 07:57:25 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 08:15:50 -0700 2009
Lisa Ann Sandell manages to give her main character, Cora, a real distinct voice. Which of us growing up hasn't thought of traveling the world, getting out of our small town, being worried about starting high school. She is able to place all thi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 11:57:37 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 10:57:04 -0700 2009
First off, I loved Cora, she had just the right amount of sadness over her brot...more...]]>