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Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Forced by her parents' ambitions among her wealthy D'Urberville cousins, Tess Durbeyfield attracts the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded, she finds work as a milkmaid, and her steadfast integrity is finally rewarded by the love of Angle Clare. Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy...
Author
Series
Maurice's valises volume 1
Publisher
Mouse Prints Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Maurice travels to New Zealand, where he's given a great responsibility and learns the value of always telling the truth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
This fable provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. It tells the story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons that teach us to develop joyful thoughts, follow our life's mission and calling, cultivate self-discipline and act courageously, value...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A passionate portrait of love's contradictory power, in five illuminating stories André Aciman, who has been called "the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century" (New York magazine), has written a novel that chronicles the life of Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout his life as they were in adolescence. Whether in southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker; or on a snowbound...
89) Death in summer
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
After his wife dies Thaddeus Davenant, owner of a country estate in England, advertises for a nanny for their baby but finds no one suitable. One candidate, however, decides the palatial surroundings would suit her very well and she is ready to do anything to obtain the job. The result is drama.
Author
Series
Bluford volume 4
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This story is about Cindy Gibson, a Bluford freshman who first appears in Lost And Found. Cindy struggles with a stormy relationship with her mother, ongoing trouble at school, a dangerous boyfriend, and worse. Will her fragile family survive?
93) A scanner darkly
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. Based on the experiences of the author, Philip K. Dick.
96) Give a boy a gun
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Diamante
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"¿Cuál es tu mayor inquietud? ¿Por qué causa te gustaría vivir y aún morir? Uziel enfrenta una crisis vocacional que lo lleva a situaciones extremas. Confía en las personas equivocadas y termina enredado en la peor pesadilla de su vida. Rodeado de ratas, a punto de morir, sabe que debe tomar una decisión urgente. Decisión crucial contiene también un análisis de profesiones, indispensable para elegir diez pruebas fundamentales que...
100) Big feelings
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids express a multitude of feelings and discover they are not alone"--
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