![]() ![]() With THE FINISHER, master storyteller David Baldacci conjures a thrilling, imaginative world where things are as wrong as wrong can be - and introduces us to an unforgettable heroine who must think fast, look close, and defy all odds in her fight to do what's right.ĭavid Baldacci has been writing since childhood, when his mother gave him a lined notebook in which to write down his stories. Vega is determined to uncover the truth - but the closer she gets, the more she risks her life. It is a place built on lies, where influential people are willing to kill to keep their secrets. But just as deadly are the threats that exist within the walls of Wormwood. The Quag is a dark forest filled with terrifying beasts and bloodthirsty Outliers. And he's left behind a very dangerous trail of clues that only she can decode. Vega knows Quentin didn't just leave - he was chased. At least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into the unknown. But this isn't unusual - nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. Why would Quentin Herms flee into the Quag? There was nothing in the Quag except certain death. Read a SNEAK PEEK of the first two chapters of #1 international bestselling author David Baldacci’s new fantasy for a younger audience! THE FINISHER releases on March 4, 2014. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Left with no one to care for him, eleven-year-old Deming is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. One morning, Deming Guo’s mother Polly goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. Book of the Month Club: May 2017 Selection.Christian Science Monitor, 30 Best Books of 2017.Poets & Writers, Best Debut Fiction 2017.Entertainment Weekly, Best Debut Novels of 2017.Huffington Post, Best Fiction Books of 2017.O, The Oprah Magazine, Our Favorite Books of 2017.Electric Literature, 25 Best Novels of 2017.Paste Magazine, 40 Best Novels of the 2010s.Irish Times, Best International Fiction 2017.Asian Pacific American Award for Literature.New York City Book Award for Best First Book.Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction Finalist.National Book Award for Fiction Finalist.PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book came at a time of when I was trying to find myself again and the philosophy behind the words really resonated with me. It focuses on self-identity and freedom in a collectivism society. ![]() It was my first time ever reading it and I did not know much before jumping into it. I know there are a lot of thoughts about this book. This volume also includes a complete reproduction of the original British edition with Ayn Rand’s handwritten editorial changes and a Reader’s Guide to her writings and philosophy. This seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Anthem, celebrating the controversial and enduring legacy of its author, features an introduction by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Piekoff, which includes excerpts from documents by Ayn Rand-letters, interviews, and journal notes in which she discusses Anthem. ![]() He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: standing out from the mindless human herd. Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a dystopian future of the great “We”-a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence-anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. In a loveless world, he dared to fall in love. “My happiness is not the means to any end. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alicia also becomes Bobby’s close friend. He discovers a pretty blind girl at the library, a girl named Alicia, who along with her parents (her Dad’s a scientist too) becomes a party to his secret. Meanwhile, Bobby asserts his independence by taking field trips, either bundled up from head to toe or totally naked (depending on the weather). It’s looking like they’ll go to jail pretty soon, on suspicion of hacking up his dead body and flushing it down the toilet or something, if he doesn’t figure out how to get visible again. ![]() ![]() of child welfare services, and the police become interested in what has happened to Bobby, who before you know it has missed a month of school and his parents refuse to disclose his whereabouts. They’re afraid that if anyone finds out, the government will take Bobby away and they’ll never see him again.īut while they’re trying to solve his problem–which isn’t too easy to solve–the school, the dept. He frightens the daylights out of his parents–his mother is a U of Chicago English prof, his father a physicist who smashes atoms for a living–and they decide to keep him home from school and keep Bobby’s problem a secret. ![]() The book begins with Bobby Phillips waking up in the morning, taking a shower, and stepping in front of the mirror to discover that he has gone invisible overnight. It’s written in the first person, from the point of view of a fairly bright 15-year-old who speaks exactly like a 15-year-old boy. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Lily tracks him down, she finds that he’s married to someone else and has no memory of her. The moment he does, Lily finds herself transported back to the house she lived in when she was single. Unable to believe her good fortune, Lily asks Gogo to pinch her-to make sure all this isn’t just a dream. If she marries for love, there will be unimaginable consequences. They decide it’s time to tell her the truth: their family is cursed. When she agrees to marry him, Dolly and Selma are inconsolable. Despite this, when she meets Gogo, the handsome, successful pediatrician who treats her like a queen, she has no choice but to let her heart take over. “N ever marry a man unless he’s short, bald, fat, stupid, and treats you badly.” That is the advice that twenty-nine-year-old Lily Burns has heard her entire life from her grandmother Dolly and her mother, Selma. LILY MARRIED THE MAN OF HER DREAMS.THEN SHE WOKE UP. ![]() |