The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

The Last Song by Nicholas SparksSeventeen year old Veronica 'Ronnie' Millers life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyones best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnies father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life

and the thirteen texts of the “Principal Upanisads”—which comprise this volume—form a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world

knowing gets mysterious

wise children

Both works have had a powerful influence on later Western literature

that money can help buy happiness

our religious divisions

" Osho said

a genius physicist named Manabu Yukawa

As chief of the country's defence research and development programme

Sophia knows she must be prepared for anything

For much of the history of the series (Volumes 4 through 29)

Blending political reality with magic realism