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Filmmaking for Change, 2nd edition
Jon Fitzgerald · 2017
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions)
Betty Smith · 2009
Dead Poets Society
N.H. Kleinbaum · 2012
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams? But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?
Play It As It Lays (FSG Classics)
Joan Didion · 2005
Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith · 2020
East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
John Steinbeck · 1952
Waiting for Britney Spears
Jeff Weiss · 2025
After I Do: A Novel
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2014
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green · 2021
Normal People: A Novel
Sally Rooney · 2020
<b>NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (<i>People</i>) from the author of <i>Conversations with Friends,</i> “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan).</b><br> <br><b>“[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br><b>ONE OF <i>ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY</i>’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE</b><br><br><b>TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>People, Slate,</i> The New York Public Library, <i>Harvard Crimson</i></b><br><br>Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins.<br><br>A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.<br><br><i>Normal People</i> is the story of mutual fascination, friendship, and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t.<br> <br><b>WINNER: The British Book Award, The Costa Book Award, The An Post Irish Novel of the Year, <i>Sunday Times </i>Young Writer of the Year Award</b><br><br><b>BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, Time,</i> NPR, <i>The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country</i></b>
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
The Raven King
Maggie Stiefvater • 2016
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Maggie Stiefvater • 2014
The Dream Thieves
Maggie Stiefvater • 2013
The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater • 2012
Atmosphere
Jenkins Reid Taylor · 2025
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant. [payot.ch]
The Teacher
Freida McFadden · 2024
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989
Light Bringer: A Red Rising Novel (Red Rising Series)
Pierce Brown · 2023
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age.<br/><br/>The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains.<br/><br/>But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend.<br/><br/>Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from its bloodthirsty would-be conqueror Lysander.<br/><br/>Lysander longs to destroy the Rising and restore the supremacy of Gold, and will raze the worlds to realize his ambitions.<br/><br/>The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow, and Darrow needs the people he loves—Virginia, Cassius, Sevro—in order to defend the Republic.<br/><br/>So begins Darrow’s long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield.<br/><br/>Because Eo’s dream is still alive—and after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.<br/><br/>Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga:<br/>RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER
Dark Age (Red Rising Series)
Pierce Brown · 2020
Iron Gold
Pierce Brown · 2018
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Morning Star (Red Rising Series)
Pierce Brown · 2016
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Golden Son (Red Rising Series)
Pierce Brown · 2015
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER •<i> Red Rising</i> hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. <i>Golden Son </i>continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom.</b><br><br><b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, <i>BUZZFEED,</i> AND <i>BOOKLIST </i><b>• “Gripping . . . On virtually every level, this is a sequel that hates sequels—a perfect fit for a hero who already defies the tropes. [Grade:] A”—<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b></b><br><br>As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds—and their only path to liberation is revolution. And so Darrow sacrifices himself in the name of the greater good for which Eo, his true love and inspiration, laid down her own life. He becomes a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm so that he can destroy it from within.<br> <br> A lamb among wolves in a cruel world, Darrow finds friendship, respect, and even love—but also the wrath of powerful rivals. To wage and win the war that will change humankind’s destiny, Darrow must confront the treachery arrayed against him, overcome his all-too-human desire for retribution—and strive not for violent revolt but a hopeful rebirth. Though the road ahead is fraught with danger and deceit, Darrow must choose to follow Eo’s principles of love and justice to free his people.<br> <br> He must live for more.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Golden Son</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br>“Stirring . . . Comparisons to <i>The Hunger Games </i>and<i> Game of Thrones</i> series are inevitable, for this tale has elements of both.”<b><i>—Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br><br>“Brown writes layered, flawed characters . . . but plot is his most breathtaking strength. . . . Every action seems to flow into the next.”<b>—NPR</b><br><br><b>Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga:</b><br><b>RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER</b>
Red Rising
Pierce Brown · 2014
Good Material
Alderton Dolly · 2023
