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Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In a similar vein to The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews or Dinner with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory, The Baggage Handler is a contemporary story that explores one question: What baggage are you carrying?"--
"When three people take the wrong suitcase from baggage claim, their lives change forever. A hothead businessman coming to the city for a showdown meeting to save his job. A mother of three hoping to survive the days at her sister's house...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Mark Haddon's breathtaking novel begins with a harrowing plane crash: Maja, the pregnant wife of the unimaginably wealthy Philippe, is killed, but their daughter Angelica survives. Philippe's obsession with the girl's safety morphs into something sinister and grotesque as she grows into a beautiful teen. A young man named Darius, visiting Philippe with a business proposition, encounters Angelica and intuits their secret -- he decides to rescue her,...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 174
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Compelling, exotic, and suspenseful, Heart of Darkness is far more than just an adventure story. The novel explores deep into the dark regions of the hearts and souls of its characters and into the conflicts prevalent in more "primitive" cultures. It is also a striking picture of the moral deterioration that can result from prolonged isolation.
Marlow, the story's narrator, tells his friends of an experience in the Congo where he once
...Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 310
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
For the first time, all the major works of this poet, artist, and mystic havebeen gathered together in one hardcover volume.
7) Naamah
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
With the coming of the Great Flood - the mother of all disasters - only one family is spared, left drifing on the endless waters, waiting for them to subside. We know the story of Noah, moved by divine word to build an ark and launch an escape. Now, in a work of astounding invention, Sarah Blake reclaims the story of his wife, Naamah, the matriarch who kept them alive. Here is the woman torn between faith and fury, lending her strength to her sons...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a race of elegant, superintelligent dogs arrives in twenty-first-century New York, they become instant celebrities, but, unable to adjust to the modern world and confronted with an incurable disease, they construct a fantastic castle and barricade themselves inside.
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Megascope
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Eight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can learn from as they wait out the horrible snowstorm that rages...
11) The richest man in Babylon: a collection of stories with timeless teachings on how to win with money
Author
Publisher
Ramsey Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Countless readers have been helped by the famous 'Babylonian parables, ' hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In language as simple as that found in the Bible, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. Acclaimed as a modern-day classic, this books offers an understanding of?and a solution to?your personal...
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