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81) Moby Dog
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Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 10
Description
While pursuing the stranger who ran off with Joe's basketball, Wishbone imagines himself to be the young sailor Ishmael on Captain Ahab's whaling ship chasing the great white whale, Moby Dick, across the seven seas.
Author
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons.
An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates...
An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates...
Author
Series
The knights of Arrethtrae volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Description
While on a mission, Sir Dalton is captured by an evil Shadow Warrior, but even though he is bruised and beaten, he refuses to submit to his captor and initiates a daring escape that could lead to his death.
84) Bruno's dream
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Pub. Date
[1969]
Description
An old man struggles to make one last connection with his estranged son, before it's too late. The elderly Bruno knows he is not far from death. One of his last wishes is to contact his estranged son, Miles, whose marriage to an Indian woman drove a decades-long wedge between father and son. When Miles comes back into his father's life, Bruno must confront his guilt, and his family must overcome the tension that grew during his long absence. Set against...
85) Illusions
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Series
Pub. Date
1998
Description
When two barnstorming adventurers meet in the fields of the Midwest one of them begins to learn about the realities of his world and what caused a real Messiah to abandon his mission.
Author
Series
Knights of Arrethtrae volume 6
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Description
Knights Rowan and Lijah battle enemies of the King and, when they ultimately come face to face with the Dark Knight in disguise, must do battle to save the United Cities of Cameria from total destruction.
87) The vegetarian
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"Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invasive images of blood and brutality--torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It's a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law, and her sister each fight to reassert their...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
At seventeen, Katherine finds herself living alone in southern Arizona and falls in love with Son, the offspring of a local rancher, but after the young couple marries and moves into Son's parents' home, Katherine comes to learn the limitations of Son's heart and is forced to find her own way as Arizona suffers from a debilitating drought.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world's most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. The mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of the Internet by revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones, computers, and the surveillance of American citizens. Principal takes Josh on...
91) Talking animals
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Talking Animals is a Kafkaesque tale about the radical awakening of an alpaca and a llama who live within a crumbling city. Together with their friends and comrades, these animals search for a form of resistance that fits with their time"--
94) Parable treasury
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
In a lovely padded hardcover format, the Gold Medallion-winning books from the Parable Series includes: The Pumpkin Patch Parable ,which focuses on the harvest season and shows that we can let Gods love shine through us The Pine Tree Parable, a heartwarming tale of the farmer and his family, who nurture tiny seedlings into fragrant Christmas trees. The Parable of the Lily , which helps children understand the power of grace and forgiveness and the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Alcorn offers a companion to his novel, Edge of Eternity, in this Pilgrim's Progress-style allegory about a man who comes to see his own wasted life through a series of misadventures, battles, and sins. These lead him to a chasm he cannot cross without the help of trusted guides, most importantly a Christ figure, the Woodsman, and a tempter, Joshua. The end is not utopia, but a life with unexpected joys and faithful companions.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield. "Why am I alive? Where was I before I was born? What will happen...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old 'dog' ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves,...
100) The death of Jesus
Author
Series
Childhood of Jesus volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simón and Bolívar the dog usually watch while his mother Inés now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging...