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41) Just because
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
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English
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"Virginia Woolf's Orlando, 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature,' playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning thee centuries of boisterous, fantastic adventure, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces experiences with first love as England, under James I, lies locked...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Just before her sixteenth birthday, Brie Eagan literally dies of a broken heart when her boyfriend tells her he does not love her, and she then must go through the five stages of grief, while watching her friends and family try to cope with her death, before her faith in love is restored and she can move on to the afterlife.
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A young chaplain at a large medical center fears her "soul is broken," though she hasn't subscribed to any formal religion in years-she's far too busy tending to the souls of her patients to do anything about her own. But strange things happen over the course of a single night shift, and interactions with patients in various states of consciousness and with various relationships to spirituality give her insight into her own life as they pinpoint...
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English
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CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury,...
47) The vespertine
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Amelia van den Broek is sent to stay with her cousin Zora in Baltimore, Maryland during the summer of 1889. Zora shows her city life and aims to help her find a suitable man to marry. When Amelia starts having disturbing visions that offer glimpses into the future, she is soon the talk of the town. Meanwhile, Amelia's attraction to artist Nathaniel, who is outside of Zora's circle, threatens the new life she is building. When one of her own visions...
48) BZRK apocalypse
Author
Series
BZRK volume 3
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A rebel band of teens faces off against twins Charles and Benjamin Armstrong, who are determined to eliminate humanity's free will, in a war that is fought at the nano level in the human brain.
49) Sacrament
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A gay photographer of endangered species recalls a childhood meeting with two agents of Death. They told him they were seeking the extinction of species. Suddenly, he has an intuitive flash. Aids! Is that their work too, the extinction of his kind? He embarks on a quest for an answer.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A 17th century Italian nobleman is marooned on an empty ship in this “astonishing intellectual journey" by the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (San Francisco Chronicle).
In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific leaves Roberto della Griva shipwrecked—on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne,...
In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific leaves Roberto della Griva shipwrecked—on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne,...
51) 17 & gone
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Seventeen-year-old Lauren has visions of girls her own age who are gone without a trace, but while she tries to understand why they are speaking to her and whether she is next, Lauren has a brush with death and a shocking truth emerges, changing everything.
52) Imagine
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Illustrates, through the eyes of a little pigeon, John Lennon's song about imagining a world at peace, in which people of all sorts live as one. Includes afterword about peace, freedom, and Amnesty International.
53) Here and now
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text celebrate mindfulness and the connectedness of everything on Earth.
55) The crimson skew
Author
Series
Mapmakers trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a world transformed by 1799's Great Disruption--when all of the continents were flung into different time periods, Sophia Tims journeys home to Boston, anticipating her runion with Theo, but he has been conscripted to fight inthe Western War, Prime Minister Broadgirldle's twisted vision of Manifest Destiny.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From Guardian writer Paula Cocozza, a debut novel of the breakdown of a marriage, suburbian claustrophobia, and a woman's unseemly passion for a fox One summer's night, Mary comes home from a midnight ramble to find a baby lying on her back door step. Has Mary stolen the baby from next door? Has the baby's mother, Mary's neighbor, left her there in her acute state of post-natal depression? Or was the baby brought to Mary as a gift by the fox who...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Perhaps the first miracle was that she lived.
The crowds keep coming. They arrive, all with their reasons, all with their doubts and certainties and everything in between. More and more every day, drawn by rumor and whisper and desperate wish. They come to Shaker Street to see eight-year-old Anabelle Vincent, who lies in a coma-like state--unable to move or speak. They come because a visitor experienced what seemed like a miracle and believed...
58) Hannah's touch
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After being stung by a bee, sixteen-year-old Hannah discovers she has the power to heal.
59) Illuminate
Author
Series
Gilded wings novels volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A brainy, shy high school outcast interning at a Chicago hotel discovers that the hotel staff has an evil agenda planned for her classmates on prom night.
60) Scorch
Author
Series
Croak trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old grim reaper Lex Bartleby tries to redeem herself among her fellow Grims by finding renegade Zara, who is indiscriminately damning souls, and stopping her once and for all.