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The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Mitch Albom ā¢ 2021
She and Her Cat
Makoto Shinkai ā¢ 2017
A Street Cat Named Bob
James Bowen ā¢ 2012
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet.<br/><br/>Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly christened Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, imagining he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas.<br/><br/>Soon the two were inseparable and their diverse, comic and occasionally dangerous adventures would transform both their lives, slowly healing the scars of each other's troubled pasts.<br/><br/>A Street Cat Named Bob is a moving and uplifting story that will touch the heart of anyone who reads it.
Every Last Word
Tamara Ireland Stone ā¢ 2017
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom ā¢ 2003
Sweet Bean Paste
Durian Sukegawa ā¢ 2018
For One More Day
Mitch Albom ā¢ 2006
To Read
The Color of Water A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride ā¢ 2006
Daring Greatly How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
BrenĆ© Brown ā¢ 2015
Eat Pray Love One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert ā¢ 2007
Educated
Tara Westover ā¢ 2018
Hannah Coulter
Wendell Berry ā¢ 2005
Untamed
Glennon Doyle ā¢ 2020
Membelah Anak Panah (Splitting the Arrow)
Prem Rawat ā¢ 2019
Conversations with God
Neale Donald Walsch ā¢ 1996
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides ā¢ 2002
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini ā¢ 2013
Why I am so clever
Friedrich Nietzsche ā¢ 2024
Schoolgirl (Modern Japanese Classics)
Osamu Dazai ā¢ 2011
The Vegetarian: A Novel
Han Kang ā¢ 2016
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson ā¢ 2016
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby ā¢ 1996
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath ā¢ 2013
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
James Hilton ā¢ 2019
A Separate Peace
John Knowles ā¢ 2014
Jane Eyre: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Charlotte Bronte ā¢ 2010
Westwind
Ian Rankin ā¢ 2020
Ripe: A Novel
Sarah Rose Etter Ā· 2023
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh Ā· 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller ā¢ New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century āOne of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.ā ā Entertainment Weekly āDarkly hilarious . . . [Moshfeghās] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.ā āVogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
The First Phone Call From Heaven: A Novel
Mitch Albom ā¢ 2013
From the beloved author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most thrilling and magical novel yetāa page-turning mystery and a meditation on the power of human connection. One morning in the small town of Coldwater, Michigan, the phones start ringing. The voices say they are calling from heaven. Is it the greatest miracle ever? Or some cruel hoax? As news of these strange calls spreads, outsiders flock to Coldwater to be a part of it. At the same time, a disgraced pilot named Sully Harding returns to Coldwater from prison to discover his hometown gripped by "miracle fever." Even his young son carries a toy phone, hoping to hear from his mother in heaven. As the calls increase, and proof of an afterlife begins to surface, the townāand the worldātransforms. Only Sully, convinced there is nothing beyond this sad life, digs into the phenomenon, determined to disprove it for his child and his own broken heart. Moving seamlessly between the invention of the telephone in 1876 and a world obsessed with the next level of communication, Mitch Albom takes readers on a breathtaking ride of frenzied hope. The First Phone Call from Heaven is Albom at his bestāa virtuosic story of love, history, and belief.
Seedtime and Harvest
Neville Goddard ā¢ 2016
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
Ocean Vuong ā¢ 2021
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire SĆ”enz ā¢ 2014
Sea of Tranquility: A novel
Emily St. John Mandel ā¢ 2022
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara ā¢ 2016
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER ā¢ A stunning āportrait of the enduring grace of friendshipā (<i>NPR</i>) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.<br></b><br><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST <b><b><b>ā¢</b></b></b></b> MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST <b>ā¢ <b><b><b><b><b> WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE</b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br><br><i>A Little Life</i> follows four college classmatesābroke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambitionāas they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagiharaās stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
Click'd
Tamara Ireland Stone ā¢ 2017
Sunshine State Young Readers Award (grades 6-8) 2017 Cybils Award Nominee: Middle-Grade Fiction 2017 Autumn Kids' Indie Next List 2017 NCIBA Golden Poppy Nominee: Middle Grade Allie Navarro can't wait to show her best friends the app she built at CodeGirls summer camp. CLICK'D pairs users based on common interests and sends them on a fun (and occasionally rule-breaking) scavenger hunt to find each other.<br/>And it's a hit. By the second day of school, everyone is talking about CLICK'D. Watching her app go viral is amazing. Leaderboards are filling up! Everyone's making new friends. And with all the data Allie is collecting, she has an even better shot at beating her archenemy, Nathan, at the upcoming youth coding competition.<br/>But when Allie discovers a glitch that threatens to expose everyone's secrets, she has to figure out how to make things right, even if that means sharing the computer lab with Nathan. Can Allie fix her app, stop it from doing any more damage, and win back the friends it hurt--all before she steps on stage to present CLICK'D to the judges?<br/>New York Times best-selling author Tamara Ireland Stone combines friendship, coding, and lots of popcorn in her fun and empowering middle-grade debut.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon ā¢ 2004
Fight Club: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk ā¢ 2018
A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans (A Dog's Purpose, 1)
W. Bruce Cameron ā¢ 2010
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky ā¢ 2010
Flowers For Algernon
Daniel Keyes ā¢ 2005
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell ā¢ 2013
"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami ā¢ 2003
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Hiro Arikawa ā¢ 2018
I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson ā¢ 2015
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho ā¢ 2015
Eliza and Her Monsters
Francesca Zappia ā¢ 2017
āA love letter to fandom, friendship, and the stories that shape us, Eliza and Her Monsters is absolutely magical.āāMarieke Nijkamp, New York Timesābestselling author of This Is Where It Ends Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything sheās worked for begins to crumble. Rainbow Rowellās Fangirl meets Noelle Stevensonās Nimona in this acclaimed novel about art, fandom, and finding the courage to be yourself. āA must-have.āāSchool Library Journal In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, anonymous creator of a popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea. With millions of followers and fans throughout the world, Elizaās persona is popular. Eliza canāt imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves her digital community. Then Wallace Warland transfers to her school and Eliza begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile. But when Elizaās secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything sheās builtāher story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanityābegins to fall apart. With pages from Elizaās webcomic, as well as screenshots from Elizaās online forums, this book will appeal to fans of Noelle Stevensonās Nimona and Rainbow Rowellās Fangirl. Young Adult Library Services Association Best Book Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten Kirkus Best Book Texas Tayshas Pick
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak ā¢ 2007
<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER ā¢ ONE OF <i>TIME</i> MAGAZINEāS 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME <b>ā¢ A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> READER TOP 100 PICK FOR BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY ā¢ A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS</i> BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY</b><br><br>The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.</b><br><br><i>When Death has a story to tell, you listen.</i><br><br>It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.<br><br>Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she canāt resistābooks. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. <br><br>In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of <i>I Am the Messenger,</i> has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.<br><br>āThe kind of book that can be life-changing.ā ā<i>The New York Times</i><br><br>āDeserves a place on the same shelf with <i>The Diary of a Young Girl </i>by Anne Frank.ā ā<i>USA Today</i><br><br><b>DONāT MISS <i>BRIDGE OF CLAY</i>, MARKUS ZUSAKāS FIRST NOVEL SINCE <i>THE BOOK THIEF.</i></b>
Out of My Mind (The Out of My Mind Series)
Sharon M. Draper ā¢ 2010
The Shack
William P. Young ā¢ 2008
Life After Life: A Novel
Kate Atkinson ā¢ 2013
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern ā¢ 2011
<b><b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER </b>ā¢ Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. <b>ā¢</b> "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." ā<i>The Boston Globe</i><br><br></b></b>The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called <i>Le Cirque des RĆŖves</i>, and it is only open at night. <br><br>But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing.Ā Despite the high stakes,Ā Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
How Do You Live?
Genzaburo Yoshino ā¢ 2021
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler ā¢ 2004
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera ā¢ 2017
Adam Silvera reminds us that thereās no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestseller *Ā four starred reviews *Ā AĀ School Library JournalĀ Best Book of the Year * AĀ KirkusĀ Best Book of the Year * AĀ BooklistĀ Editors' Choice * A Bustle Best YA Novel * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book * A Book Riot Best Queer Book * A BuzzFeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: Theyāre going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, theyāre both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: Thereās an app for that. Itās called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventureāto live a lifetime in a single day. In the tradition ofĀ Before I FallĀ andĀ If I Stay,Ā They Both Die at the EndĀ is a tour de force from acclaimed author Adam Silvera, whose debut,Ā More Happy Than Not, theĀ New York TimesĀ called āprofound.ā Plus don't missĀ The First to Die at the End:Ā #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author Adam Silvera returns to the universe of international phenomenonĀ They Both Die at the EndĀ in this prequel. New star-crossed lovers are put to the test on the first day of Death-Castās fateful calls.
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven ā¢ 2015
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
Pascal Khoo Thwe ā¢ 2002
āA page-turnerā¦deeply moving, beautifully written, and most inspiring. When I reached the last page, my heart was filled with joy and gratitude.ā ā Nien Chang, author of Life and Death in Shanghai<br/>An emotionally charged and lyrically written memoir about a remarkable odyssey from a Burmese hill tribe and a land torn by civil war to Cambridge University.<br/>It was during a tour on a trip through Burma that John Casey, a Cambridge don, first met Pascal Khoo Thwe, who was moonlighting in a Chinese restaurant to support himself as a student at Mandalay University. Thwe was born a member of the Padaung tribe in Burma where political turmoil and poverty are ever-present realities.<br/>Thwe left school to join the student rebels during the great insurrection of 1988, but remained in touch with Casey. He was forced to flee the country. It was his connection to Casey that enabled him to emigrate to England where he was admitted to Cambridge University. Despite his humble beginnings and the oppression he faced, Pascal Khoo Thwe brings us into a world forgotten by the West, but one that readers will not soon forget.
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: A Novel
Mitch Albom ā¢ 2015
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Zoulfa Katouh ā¢ 2022
A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Fredrik Backman ā¢ 2014
The Girls with No Names
Serena Burdick Ā· 2020
INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER<br> <br> A beautiful tale of hope, courage, and sisterhood--inspired by the real House of Mercy and the girls confined there for daring to break the rules.<br> <br> Growing up in New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. But when the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen elder sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. Her rebellion comes with consequences, and one morning Luella is mysteriously gone.<br> <br> Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy and hatches a plan to get herself committed to save her sister. But she made a miscalculation, and with no one to believe her story, Effie's own escape seems impossible--unless she can trust an enigmatic girl named Mable. As their fates entwine, Mable and Effie must rely on their tenuous friendship to survive.<br> <br> Home for Unwanted Girls meets The Dollhouse in this atmospheric, heartwarming story that explores not only the historical House of Mercy, but the lives--and secrets--of the girls who stayed there.<br> <br> "Burdick has spun a cautionary tale of struggle and survival, love and family -- and above all, the strength of the heart, no matter how broken." -- New York Times Book Review<br> <br> "Burdick reveals the perils of being a woman in 1913 and exposes the truths of their varying social circles." -- Chicago Tribune
Reading
When Mr. Dog Bites
Brian Conaghan ā¢ 2014
1984
George Orwell ā¢ 1961
<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwellās chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>ā¢ Nominated as one of Americaās best-loved novels by PBSās <i>The Great American Read ā¢</i></b><br></b><br>ā<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>ā<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston canāt escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novelās hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitionsāa power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
More Shit My Dad Says
Justin Halpern ā¢ 2013
More Shit My Dad Says
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison ā¢ 1995
Bunny: A Novel
Mona Awad ā¢ 2020
Dropped
OTORIMONOGATARI: Decoy Tale
NISIOISIN ā¢ 2018
A certain middle school girl has a fondness for hats, which serve as a line of defense against eye contact along with the overlong bangs sheās worn ever since she was little. Speaking in fits and starts when she doesnāt fall completely silent, her go-to line is āIām sorry,ā and sheās given to referring to herself in third person. Nadeko Sengoku is pretty, and not just cute.<br/><br/>When a jealous classmate tried to hex her with a fraudulent charm, Miss Bangs went and got cursed in earnest all by herself, having done her homework wrong and performed a gruesome ritual at a forgotten shrine. Thank goodness Big Brother Koyomi noticed and rescued her that time, but chopping up snakes at a place of worship that was dedicated to a serpentā¦<br/><br/>It might come back to bite her again, hmmmm? Hoping to be saved by someone, but unable to ask for help, the shyest member of the cast explores a running theme of these tales in her own halting voice this round: While self-reliance is well and good, beware of its debased counterfeit minted from a mere reluctance to connect with others. You know what I mean?
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary Edition
Mitch Albom ā¢ 2002
I Have a Secret (Light Novel)
Yoru Sumino ā¢ 2021
A coming-of-age novel with supernatural overtones from the bestselling author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. Five high school classmates hold secrets close to their heartsāhidden talents, unspoken feelings, and buried pain. As they collide with each other on the path to growing up, they might jostle some of those secrets free. From Yoru Sumino, acclaimed author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and I Had That Same Dream Again comes a gentle, intriguing tale about love, life, and the things we leave unsaid.
The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss
Max Wirestone ā¢ 2017
Veronica Mars meets the World of Warcraft in The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss, a mystery romp with a most unexpected heroine.<br/><br/>If it were up to me this book would be called Hilarious Things That Happened That Were Not At All Dahlia's Fault -- or HTTHTWNAADF, for short.<br/>OK, I probably shouldn't have taken money from a mysterious eccentric to solve a theft, given that I'm not a detective, and that I am sometimes outwitted by puzzles in children's video games. I probably shouldn't have stolen bags of trash from a potential murder suspect. Arguably -- just arguably, mind you -- it may have been unwise to cos-play at an event where I was likely to be shot at.<br/><br/>But sometimes you just have to take some chances, right? And maybe things do get a little unfortunate. What of it? If you ask me, an unfortunate decision here or there can change your life. In a positive way, just so long you don't killed in the process. Admittedly, that's the tricky bit.
A Lucky Man: Stories
Jamel Brinkley ā¢ 2019
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Young Man in a Hurry
Gavin Newsom Ā· 2026
The #1 USA Today Bestseller and Instant New York Times Bestseller From California Governor Gavin Newsom comes an intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics āGo slow,ā his political elders advised him, but Gavin Newsom has never known such a speed. For Newsom, the California Dream is what lured his fatherās family from County Cork, Ireland, six generations ago. His great-great-grandfather, a cop, walked a beat in San Francisco, where almost 150 years later, Newsom would be elected as mayor, running on the values instilled in him by his family history: that Californiaās open arms must continue to extend to each new generation. Newsom has never lived anywhere but California. Born in San Francisco, his parents divorced at a young age, and his childhood was spent being tugged between two worlds: his mother worked three jobs in order to care for her children while his father, a close friend of the Getty family, brought Newsom into San Francisco society, a world of wealth and connections. The dissonance was frustrating, and made all the more difficult because of undiagnosed dyslexia, but the vantage point was valuable: he inherited his motherās perseverance and his fatherās reverence of California, not only its wildness, but its opportunity. In Young Man in a Hurry, Newsom traces the forces that have defined his ambitions as a politician and have pushed him to outpace the nation on myriad cutting-edge social issues that have since entered the mainstream. As mayor of San Francisco, he made waves when he violated state law in order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, more than ten years before the Supreme Court made such unions legal. He launched bold efforts to counter climate change, improve mental health care, and enhance gun safety, and worked to preserve the California Dream for his constituents. Elected as governor on the eve of unprecedented wildfires and entering office into immediate hyper-partisan headwinds from Washington, DC, Newsom has constantly and consistently stuck his neck out. Here for the first time, he reflects on the long personal journey that ultimately shaped him into one of the most recognizable and accomplished elected officials in America. Filled with intimate family history and written with candor and remarkable personal insight, here is a deeply resilient California story of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics.
