Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Sleigh! by Mo Willems

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Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Sleigh!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2023
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“The pigeon really, really wants to drive the sleigh this holiday! Do you think that’s a good idea?”–Back cover.

More books by Mo Willems

1. An Elephant & Piggie Biggie-Biggie!, Volume 2

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jul 08, 2025
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“[A] bind-up of five Elephant & Piggie adventures to spark early-readers’ imaginations”–Provided by publisher.

2. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Sep 03, 2024
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For the first time ever, Knuffle Bunny, the hilarious picture book by Mo Willems that received a Caldecott Honor in 2005, is available in a board book format perfect for the littlest readers. Trixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood Laundromat. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixie realizes somebunny was left behind. . . . Using a combination of muted black-and-white photographs and expressive illustrations, this stunning book tells a brilliantly true-to-life tale about what happens when Daddy’s in charge and things go terribly, hilariously wrong.

3. Are You Big?

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2024
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4. Lefty

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2024
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“A nonfiction narrative book about left-handedness”–

5. Elephants Cannot Dance!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jun 01, 2023
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6. Can I Play Too?

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Apr 01, 2023
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7. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Apr 01, 2023
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When a bus driver takes a break, he gives the reader just one instruction: “Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!” But, boy, that pigeon tries every trick in the book to get in that driving seat: he whines, wheedles, fibs and flatters. Will you let him drive?

8. Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Sleigh!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2023
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“The pigeon really, really wants to drive the sleigh this holiday! Do you think that’s a good idea?”–Back cover.

9. The FRUSTRATING Book! (an Unlimited Squirrels Book)

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Oct 04, 2022
Number of Pages: 96
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From Mo Willems, creator of the revolutionary, award-winning, best-selling Elephant & Piggie books, comes this breakout beginning-reader series, Unlimited Squirrels. An ensemble cast of Squirrels, Acorns, and pop-in guests hosts a page-turning extravaganza. Each book features a funny, furry adventure AND bonus jokes, quirky quizzes, nutty facts, and so, so many Squirrels. In The FRUSTRATING Book!, Zoom Squirrel wants to feel brand new emotions. The Squirrel pals know just what to do! But what happens if Zoomy doesn’t like these new feelings? Do you know more about feelings than the Squirrels do? You will by the end of this book!

10. Guess What!? (an Unlimited Squirrels Book Indies Signed Edition)

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Oct 05, 2021
Number of Pages: 96
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From Mo Willems, creator of the revolutionary, award-winning, best-selling Elephant & Piggie books, comes this breakout beginning-reader series, Unlimited Squirrels. An ensemble cast of Squirrels, Acorns, and pop-in guests hosts a page-turning extravaganza. Each book features a funny, furry adventure AND bonus jokes, quirky quizzes, nutty facts, and so, so many Squirrels. In Guess What ?, Zoom Squirrel is excited to go to the beach. But what will happen when Zoomy and pals finally get there? Do you know more about going to the beach than the Squirrels do? You will by the end of this book

11. The Pigeon Needs a Bath Book with Pigeon Bath Toy!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Oct 22, 2019
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The Pigeon really needs a bath! Except, the Pigeon’s not so sure about that. Besides, he took a bath last month! Maybe. It’s going to take some serious convincing to try and get the Pigeon to take the plunge. A Mo Willems’ fan favorite condensed in a bath book format with high-quality Pigeon bath toy-available only with this set.

12. The Pigeon HAS to Go to School!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Aug 01, 2019
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Mo Willems’ Pigeon is BACK in a hilarious story perfect for those about to start school or nursery.”There is no such thing as a bad Mo Willems book” The TimesThe Pigeon is about to get SCHOOLED. Do YOU think he should go?Why does the Pigeon have to go to school? He already knows everything! Well … almost everything. And what if he doesn’t like it? What if the teacher doesn’t like him? I mean, what if he learns TOO MUCH!?!

13. The Pigeon Needs a Bath Book!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Apr 02, 2019
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The Pigeon really needs a bath! Except, the Pigeon’s not so sure about that. Besides, he took a bath last month! Maybe. It’s going to take some serious convincing to try and get the Pigeon to take the plunge. A Mo Willems’ fan favorite condensed in a bath book format.

14. A Busy Creature’s Day Eating!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Mar 19, 2019
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Mo Willems delivers a smorgasbord of hunger, hubris, regret, and redemption as a Busy Creature hilariously chomps and chews its way through the alphabet now in board book format.

15. I Lost My Tooth!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Oct 02, 2018
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Mo Willems, creator of the revolutionary, award-winning, best-selling Elephant & Piggie books, is back with another breakout beginning-reader series. An ensemble cast of Squirrels, Acorns, and pop-in guests host a page-turning extravaganza. Each book features a funny, furry adventure AND bonus jokes, quirky quizzes, nutty facts, and so, so many Squirrels. In I Lost My Tooth!, Zoom Squirrel has lost a front tooth! The Squirrels leap into action when they discover the missing tooth is a baby tooth! Do you know more about teeth than the Squirrels do? You will by the end of this book!

16. Welcome

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jul 01, 2018
Number of Pages: 32
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Mo Willems As a child Mo grew up during the 1970s, so he always looked kind of goofy. One time in his school’s art class, Mo’s teacher told him to stop drawing cartoons all the time. She said big, boring drawings of fruit in a bowl that made people’s eyes glaze over were A-R-T, but funny cartoons that made people laugh weren’t. She was wrong. Mo had great truble speling when he was a kidd. As an adult Mo once met a man in Egypt who had built a huge sand temple about his life (which mostly consisted of images of him constructing a huge sand temple about his life). He dreamt of creating a one-to-one scale model of the desert. Mo drove a motorcyle in New York for about five years without a single accident. Then he realized he was lucky not to have an accident, so he bought a used Volvo. If Mo had known how cool having a wife and daughter was, he would have got them sooner. As an artist At age eighteen, Mo moved temporarily to London to pursue his dream of becoming a stand-up comic. He quickly established himself and somehow managed to get a spot in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before returning to America to become a film student. At New York University he discovered animation and quickly became entranced by the ability to make movies without having to beg a crew to help him. Here he discovered the work of Ronald Searle and the UPA animation studio, both of which influenced his deceptively simple, graphic drawing style. After graduating from college, he travelled around the world for a year, returning with ridiculous sideburns. A quick shave later, he returned to New York and became an animator and writer for TV, most notably for Sesame Street (where he won six Emmys for his writing). He then wrote for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. Mo’s first foray into children’s books was the innovative Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, which appeared on many “best book” lists and won a prestigious American Prize, the Caldecott Honor, in 2004. He has encouraged thousands of children to yell “NOOOOOO!” in libraries. Mo hopes to devote an increasing percentage of his time writing and illustrating children’s books. Things you didn’t know about Mo Willems His shoe size. Mo once walked all the way across France with his dad (don’t ask him why). Mo used to record a weekly Postcard from Brooklyn for BBC radio (kind of like Alistair Cooke’s Letters From America only less good). Mo finds rain depressing. It’s always raining when Mo goes on vacation. Mo’s arch-enemy is PRINT-TOR, the evil spirit of vengeance that makes printing on any computer a near impossibility. Mo doesn’t like sweets, but eats bags and bags of candy when he takes long drives. Mo reads really long, really boring books about history and everybody laughs at him, but he doesn’t care what they say (much). Did you ever see that really great movie about a pig called Babe? Mo wasn’t in that movie. Mo gets very bored very..

17. The Itchy Book! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!)

by: Mo WillemsLeUyen Pham
Release date: May 15, 2018
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Triceratops has an itch. . . so does Pterodactyl. . . and Brontosaurus. . . and T-Rex! But DINOSAURS DO NOT SCRATCH. There is a rule written in stone. What is an itchy dinosaur to do?!

18. Should I Share My Ice Cream?

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2018
Number of Pages: 57
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Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. Gerald the elephant has a big decision to make, but will he make it in time?

19. Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! It’s Shoe Time!

by: Mo WillemsBryan Collier
Release date: Nov 07, 2017
Number of Pages: 64
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This lyrical beginning-reader by multi award-winning artist Bryan Collier turns the closet on its heel and redefines what it means to be a pair. Beautifully rendered art paired with rich, rhyming dialog creates a powerful reading experience.

20. Sam, the Most Scaredy-Cat Kid in the Whole World

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Sep 01, 2017
Number of Pages: 48
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21. An Elephant And Piggie Biggie!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: May 02, 2017
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Mo Willems, a #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, celebrates ten years of Elephant & Piggie in this special bind-up collection: Today I Will Fly!; Watch Me Throw the Ball!; Can I Play Too?; the award-winning Let’s Go For a Drive!; and I Really Like Slop!

22. Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! The Good for Nothing Button

by: Mo WillemsCharise Mericle Harper
Release date: May 02, 2017
Number of Pages: 64
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Yellow Bird has a button. It does . . . nothing! It is a good for nothing button. Red Bird and Blue Bird are excited to try the button. But when they press it, they discover that the button makes them happy. Happy is something! A flabbergasted Yellow Bird insists the button does nothing. But it sure does seem to be making him mad. Mad is something! The hilarious debate that follows takes readers on an emotional roller coaster that pokes at the power of imaginative play.

23. The Story of Diva and Flea

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Feb 01, 2017
Number of Pages: 80
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24. Nanette’s Baguette

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Feb 01, 2017
Number of Pages: 40
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25. I Broke My Trunk!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Oct 01, 2016
Number of Pages: 57
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Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.

26. Let’s Go for a Drive!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Oct 01, 2016
Number of Pages: 64
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27. We Are Growing!

by: Mo WillemsLaurie Keller
Release date: Sep 20, 2016
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Walt and his friends are growing up fast! Everyone is the something-est. But . . . what about Walt? He is not the tallest, or the curliest, or the silliest. He is not the anything-est! As a BIG surprise inches closer, Walt discovers something special of his own!

28. The Cookie Fiasco (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!)

by: Mo WillemsDan Santat
Release date: Sep 20, 2016
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Four friends. Three cookies. One problem. Hippo, Croc, and the Squirrels are determined to have equal cookies for all! But how? There are only three cookies . . . and four of them! They need to act fast before nervous Hippo breaks all the cookies into crumbs!

29. I Really Like Slop! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Oct 27, 2015
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Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In I Really Like Slop!, Piggie invites Gerald to try her favorite food . . . slop. But Gerald is not so sure he’s going to like it. At all.

30. The Pigeon Needs a Bath!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Apr 01, 2014
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The Pigeon really needs a bath! Except, the Pigeon’s not so sure about that. Besides, he took a bath last month! Maybe. It’s going to take some serious convincing to try and get the Pigeon to take the plunge.

31. Watch Me Throw the Ball!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Sep 01, 2013
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Gerald is determined to teach Piggie that ball-throwing is a serious business, but Piggie is just as determined to have serious fun. Told entirely in speech bubbles with a repetitive use of familiar phrases, this original book encourages children who are just learning to read.

32. That Is Not a Good Idea!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Apr 23, 2013
Number of Pages: 48
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That Is Not a Good Idea! is a hilarious, interactive picture book from bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems, the creator of books like Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, the Knuffle Bunny series, the Elephant and Piggie series, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs, and many other new classics. Inspired by the evil villains and innocent damsels of silent movies, Willems tells the tale of a hungry fox who invites a plump goose to dinner. As with the beloved Pigeon books, kids will be calling out the signature refrain and begging for repeated readings. The funny details in the full-color illustrations by three-time Caldecott Honoree Mo Willems will bring nonstop laughter to story time.

33. It’s a Busload of Pigeon Books! (NEW ISBN)

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Apr 09, 2013
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When Pigeon finds a delicious hot dog, he can’t wait to devour it. But then along comes a sly duckling who wants a bite. Who will be the more clever bird?

34. Are You Ready to Play Outside?

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2013
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Piggie can’t wait to go and play in the sunshine. But will a rainy day ruin all the fun? Told entirely in speech bubbles with a repetitive use of familiar phrases, this original book encourages children who are just learning to read.

35. I Love My New Toy!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2013
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Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In this title, Piggie can’t wait to show Gerald her brand-new toy. But will an accidentally broken toy accidentally break a friendship?

36. Today I Will Fly!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2012
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These are one of a series of delightfully humorous award-winning tales for beginner readers from an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator. Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In “Today I will Fly!” Piggie wants to fly. But Gerald knows that she cannot – or can she?

37. My Friend is Sad

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2012
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An elephant demonstrates how important friends are.

38. I Am Invited to a Party!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2012
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Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In this title, Piggie is invited to her first party. But what will she wear?

39. I Will Surprise My Friend!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2012
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Best friends Elephant and Piggie decide that they will try to surprise each other, with unexpected results.

40. Listen to My Trumpet!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2012
Number of Pages: 57
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When Piggie plays her new trumpet for Gerald, the elephant decides he must be honest in his response.

41. Knuffle Bunny Free

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Sep 28, 2010
Number of Pages: 54
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Trixie and her family are off on a fantastic trip to visit her grandparents—all the way in Holland! But does Knuffle Bunny have different travel plans? An emotional tour de force, Knuffle Bunny Free concludes one of the most beloved picture-book series in recent memory, with pitchperfect text and art, photos from around the world, and a stunning foldout spread, culminating in a hilarious and moving surprise that no child or parent will be able to resist. Bestselling, award-winning author Mo Willems has created an epic love story as only he can, filled with the joys and sadness of growing up —and the unconditional love that binds a father, mother, daughter, and a stuffed bunny.

42. Let’s Say Hi to Friends Who Fly!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Feb 16, 2010
Number of Pages: 32
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Cat the Cat sure likes her flying friends. You will too! Join this spunky feline as she introduces the very youngest readers to her world, where a surprise is waiting in every book.

43. I Am Going!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 26, 2010
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Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In I Am Going!, Piggie ruins a perfectly good day by telling Gerald she is going. If Piggie goes, who will Gerald skip with, play Ping-Pong with, and wear silly hats with? Willems’s Geisel Award–winning duo continues to delight readers with their silly shenanigans. Packed full of humor and heart, the Elephant & Piggie Books are vetted by an early-learning specialist and early learners themselves, so they’ll be right on target for new readers.

44. Pigs Make Me Sneeze! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Oct 06, 2009
Number of Pages: 64
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Could Elephant be allergic to Piggy? Oh no, will they ever be able to see each other again?

45. The Pigeon Wants a Puppy!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2008
Number of Pages: 33
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The pigeon really, really wants a puppy, but when a puppy arrives the pigeon changes its mind.

46. Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2007
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Needing to brush his teeth, a bus driver asks the reader to make sure that the pigeon goes to bed on time–but the bird has many excuses about why it should stay awake.

47. You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Apr 25, 2006
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On June 1, 1990, less than a week after graduating college, Mo Willems embarked on a yearlong trip around the world. Travelingwith only a notebook, pen and ink, and one change of clothes, he spent the next twelve months backpacking across more than thirty countries.At the end of each day, he drew the one event that stuck out in his mind the mostfrom the sublime to the ridiculous.Recently annotated by the illustrator and featuring a foreword from best-selling humor writer Dave Barry, You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day is a unique snapshot of an artists coming-of-age as he tries to understand the world around him.

48. Leonardo, the Terrible Monster

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Aug 23, 2005
Number of Pages: 48
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Leonardo is a terrible monster so he decides to be a best friend.

49. The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!

by: Mo Willems
Release date: Jan 01, 2005
Number of Pages: 40
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Simplified Chinese edition of The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems who received the Caldecott Honor for Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!. Willems is also a Sesame Street script writer and NPR cartoonist. In Simplified Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

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Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

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Impossible Creatures

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Sep 10, 2024
Number of Pages: 369
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two kids race to save the world’s last magical place in the first book of a landmark new fantasy series, from “a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination.” (Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass) *This spectacular book features foil and embossing on the jacket, full-color designed endpapers, red stained edges, and a red case cover with gold stamping.* “An instant classic from one of the most gifted storytellers of our time, Impossible Creatures is an astonishing miracle of a book.” —Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal Winner for The One and Only Ivan A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The day that Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever. It’s the day he learned about the Archipelago—a cluster of unmapped islands where magical creatures of every kind have thrived for thousands of years, until now. And it’s the day he met Mal—a girl on the run, in desperate need of his help. Mal and Christopher embark on a wild adventure, racing from island to island, searching for someone who can explain why the magic is fading and why magical creatures are suddenly dying. They consult sphinxes, battle kraken, and negotiate with dragons. But the closer they get to the dark truth of what’s happening, the clearer it becomes: no one else can fix this. If the Archipelago is to be saved, Mal and Christopher will have to do it themselves. Katherine Rundell’s story crackles and roars with energy and delight. It is brought vividly to life with more than 60 illustrations, including a map and a bestiary of magical creatures.

More books by Katherine Rundell

1. The Poisoned King

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Sep 11, 2025
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The dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell’s runaway bestselling Impossible Creatures series. Return to the magic of the Archipelago. “Come, and bring the dragon: there is justice to be done.” Katherine Rundell’s story will be brought vividly to life with more than sixty illustrations, including a map and a bestiary of magical creatures.

2. Vanishing Treasures

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Nov 12, 2024
Number of Pages: 143
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM BOSTON GLOBE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, AND MORE! • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural world “This celebration of seahorses, lemurs, and others doubles as a wake-up call: look around and protect what you love.” —Boston Globe The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world’s most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction. Consider the seahorse: couples mate for life and meet each morning for a dance, pirouetting and changing colors before going their separate ways, to dance again the next day. The American wood frog survives winter by allowing itself to freeze solid, its heartbeat slowing until it stops altogether. Come spring, the heart kick-starts itself spontaneously back to life. As for the lemur, it lives in matriarchal troops led by an alpha female (it’s not unusual for female ring-tailed lemurs to slap males across the face when they become aggressive). Whenever they are cold or frightened, they group together in what’s known as a lemur ball, paws and tails intertwined, to form a furry mass as big as a bicycle wheel. But each of these extraordinary animals is endangered or holds a sub-species that is endangered. This urgent, inspiring book of essays dedicated to 23 unusual and underappreciated creatures is a clarion call insisting that we look at the world around us with new eyes—to see the magic of the animals we live among, their unknown histories and capabilities, and above all how lucky we are to tread the same ground as such vanishing treasures. Beautifully illustrated, and full of inimitable wit and intellect, Vanishing Treasures is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck, to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.

3. The Zebra’s Great Escape

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Aug 20, 2024
Number of Pages: 64
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Through courage and determination, little girl Mink helps save a menagerie of animals who have been captured by the evil Mr. Spit.

4. The Golden Mole and Other Vanishing Treasure

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Nov 02, 2023
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A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world’s most extraordinary endangered animals.

5. Super-Infinite

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Sep 06, 2022
Number of Pages: 181
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Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hub From the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament—and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year-old girl without her father’s consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing us the many sides of Donne’s extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times—unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.

6. The Katherine Rundell Collection

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Nov 26, 2020
Number of Pages: 782
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_______________ Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell… _______________ ‘Read everything she writes’ – Daily Mail ‘A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination’ – Philip Pullman _______________ Whether it’s leaping over the rooftops of Paris, running with wolves in snowy Russia, learning to survive the dangers of the Amazon rainforest or embarking on a heist in 1920s New York, each of Rundell’s books opens a window into a different world. Full of brilliant characters, from courageous young girls and boys to the most fearsome of villains, these stories are about bravery, resourcefulness and how age is no barrier to changing the world. This eBook bundle contains: – Rooftoppers – The Wolf Wilder – The Explorer – The Good Thieves

7. The Book of Hopes

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Oct 01, 2020
Number of Pages: 381
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8. The Good Thieves

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Aug 25, 2020
Number of Pages: 272
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“A dazzling tale of wild hope, lingering grief, admirable self-sufficiency, and intergenerational adoration.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Vita tests her own limits, and readers will thrill at her cleverness, tenacity, and close escapes.” —Booklist “A satisfying adventure.” —Kirkus Reviews From award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a fast-paced and utterly thrilling adventure driven by the loyalty and love between a grandfather and his granddaughter. When Vita’s grandfather’s mansion is taken from him by a powerful real estate tycoon, Vita knows it’s up to her to make things right. With the help of a pickpocket and her new circus friends, Vita creates the plan: Break into the mansion. Steal back what’s rightfully her grandfather’s. Expose the real estate tycoon for the crook he truly is. But 1920s Manhattan is ever-changing and full of secrets. It might take more than Vita’s ragtag gang of misfits to outsmart the city that never sleeps. Award-winning author Katherine Rundell has created an utterly gripping tour de-force about loyalty, trust, and the lengths to which we’ll go for the ones we love.

9. Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Aug 08, 2019
Number of Pages: 83
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_______________ A pocket-sized, unmissable essay on the importance of children’s literature by the bestselling and award-winning author, Katherine Rundell. _______________ ‘It’s a very short book but it packs a real punch… A real delight’ – Financial Times ‘Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power whose novels will be read, cherished and reread long after most so-called “serious” novels are forgotten’ – Observer ‘Rundell’s pen is gold-tipped’ – Sunday Times _______________ Katherine Rundell – Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children – explores how children’s books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children’s fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives on the world. This delightful and persuasive essay is for adult readers.

10. Into the Jungle: Stories for Mowgli

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Oct 02, 2018
Number of Pages: 233
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Timed for the release of Warner Bros.’s film Mowgli in October 2018 and Disney’s release of The Jungle Book 2 in 2019, here is a beautifully illustrated companion to Kipling’s classic, by a writer of extraordinary storytelling ability, that explores its timeless themes in a careful update. This wise and witty companion to Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 classic is likewise a series of connected stories about the man-cub Mowgli and his adventures among the animals in the Indian jungle. It includes all the original favorites like Baloo and Bagheera and gives female characters, like Mother Wolf, a more prominent role in Mowgli’s upbringing. The timely theme of the possibility of understanding and empathy across species, cultures, and genders will resonate with contemporary readers.

11. One Christmas Wish

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Sep 18, 2018
Number of Pages: 64
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From beloved author Katherine Rundell comes a clever, funny, and poignant picture book about a lonely little boy who wishes not to be alone on Christmas. A young boy’s Christmas Eve wish on a shooting star leads to an adventure with an ever-hungry rocking horse, an angel whose wings are molting, a robin who has forgotten how to sing, and a rusting tin drummer boy in Katherine Rundell’s classic Christmas story, with Emily Sutton’s gorgeous paintings.

12. The Explorer

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Sep 12, 2017
Number of Pages: 233
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From Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes. Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they’re on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. For days they survive alone, until Fred finds a map that leads them to a ruined city, and to a secret.

13. The Wolf Wilder

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Sep 06, 2016
Number of Pages: 256
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“Fairy tale and history merge seamlessly” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) in this enchanting and lyrical novel about love and resilience from the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner, Katherine Rundell. Feo’s life is extraordinary. Her mother trains domesticated wolves to be able to fend for themselves in the snowy wilderness of Russia, and Feo is following in her footsteps to become a wolf wilder. She loves taking care of the wolves, especially the three who stay at the house because they refuse to leave Feo, even though they’ve already been wilded. But not everyone is enamored with the wolves, or with the fact that Feo and her mother are turning them wild. And when her mother is taken captive, Feo must travel through the cold, harsh woods to save her—and learn from her wolves how to survive.

14. Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Mar 01, 2016
Number of Pages: 272
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“Will must find her way after she’s plucked out of a wonderful life in Zimbabwe and forced to go to boarding school in England”–Provided by publisher.”

15. Rooftoppers

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Jun 03, 2014
Number of Pages: 26
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When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie’s mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of “rooftoppers.”

16. The Girl Savage

by: Katherine Rundell
Release date: Jan 01, 2011
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Monkey Escape at London Zoo: Link to Missing SchoolgirlWilhelmina Silver’s world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey and her best friend, every day is beautiful.But when her home is sold and Will is sent away to boarding school in England, the world becomes impossibly difficult. For lions and hyenas are nothing compared to packs of schoolgirls.Where can a girl run to in London? And will she have the courage to survive?An extremely special story of bravery, hope and the wildness that lives in us all.

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Atomic Habits by James Clear

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1. Good Habits (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

by: Harvard Business ReviewJames ClearRasmus HougaardJacqueline CarterWhitney Johnson
Release date: Apr 25, 2023
Number of Pages: 67
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Improve the way you work—and feel—by forming better habits. We all have habits. Some of them we”ve carefully established; others we may have simply fallen into. Some help us get our work done; others hold us back. This book explores how to change your behavior to break counterproductive tendencies, combat everyday stressors, and ultimately reach your goals at work and in life. This volume includes the work of: James Clear Rasmus Hougaard Jacqueline Carter Whitney Johnson How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

2. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance (with bonus article “The Right Way to Form New Habits” An interview with James Clear)

by: Harvard Business ReviewJames ClearDaniel GolemanHeidi GrantPeter F. Drucker
Release date: May 31, 2022
Number of Pages: 274
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Set yourself on the path to greatness. If you read nothing else on performing at your highest level, read these 10 articles. We”ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you learn what successful people do differently, find inspiration in your work, and achieve your full potential. This book will inspire you to: Identify the patterns that are holding you back Turn weaknesses into strengths and strengths into success Form the right habits to reach your goals Focus on the work that matters most Avoid the pitfalls of being a star performer Set the stage for others to excel This collection of articles includes “The Making of an Expert,” by K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely; “Managing Oneself,” by Peter F. Drucker; “Are You a High Potential?,” by Douglas A. Ready, Jay A. Conger, and Linda A. Hill, “Making Yourself Indispensable,” by John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, and Scott K. Edinger; “How to Play to Your Strengths,” by Laura Morgan Roberts, Gretchen Spreitzer, Jane Dutton, Robert Quinn, Emily Heaphy, and Brianna Barker Caza; “The Power of Small Wins,” by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer; “Nine Things Successful People Do Differently,” by Heidi Grant; “Make Time for the Work That Matters,” by Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen; “Don”t Be Blinded by Your Own Expertise,” by Sydney Finkelstein; “Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity,” by Ellen Langer and Alison Beard; “Primal Leadership,” by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee; and “The Right Way to Form New Habits,” by James Clear and Alison Beard. HBR”s 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR”s 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

3. Atomic Habits Summary (by James Clear)

by: James Clear
Number of Pages: 39
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SUMMARY: ATOMIC HABITS: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. This book is not meant to replace the original book but to serve as a companion to it. ABOUT ORIGINAL BOOK: Atomic Habits can help you improve every day, no matter what your goals are. As one of the world”s leading experts on habit formation, James Clear reveals practical strategies that will help you form good habits, break bad ones, and master tiny behaviors that lead to big changes. If you”re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn”t you. Instead, the issue is with your system. There is a reason bad habits repeat themselves over and over again, it”s not that you are not willing to change, but that you have the wrong system for changing. “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems” – James Clear I’m a huge fan of this book, and as soon as I read it I knew it was going to make a big difference in my life, so I couldn’t wait to make a video on this book and share my ideas. Here is a link to James Clear’s website, where I found he uploads a tonne of useful posts on motivation, habit formation and human psychology. DISCLAIMER: This is an UNOFFICIAL summary and not the original book. It designed to record all the key points of the original book.

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The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

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The Backyard Bird Chronicles

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Apr 23, 2024
Number of Pages: 321
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club • With a foreword by David Allen Sibley “Unexpected and spectacular” —Ann Patchett, best-selling author of These Precious Days “The drawings and essays in this book do a lot more than just describe the birds. They carry a sense of discovery through observation and drawing, suggest the layers of patterns in the natural world, and emphasize a deep personal connection between the watcher and the watched. The birds that inhabit Amy Tan’s backyard seem a lot like the characters in her novels.” —David Allen Sibley, from the foreword Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions, and beautiful original sketches. With boundless charm and wit, author Amy Tan charts her foray into birding and the natural wonders of the world. In 2016, Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds visiting her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater—an opportunity to savor quiet moments during a volatile time, connect to nature in a meaningful way, and imagine the intricate lives of the birds she admired.

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1. Revisiting the Depths – Overcoming Fear and Finding Peace

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Aug 01, 2024
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Revisiting the Depths: Overcoming Fear and Finding Peace is a masterful memoir that takes readers on an emotional and spiritual odyssey, exploring the profound themes of healing, resilience, and self-discovery.

2. Where The Past Begins

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Oct 17, 2017
Number of Pages: 402
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From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination. As seen on PBS American Masters “Unintended Memoir.” In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals the ways that our memories and personal experiences can inform our creative work. Drawing on her vivid impressions of her upbringing, Tan investigates the truths and inspirations behind her writing while illuminating how we all explore, confront, and process complex memories, especially half-forgotten ones from childhood. With candor, empathy, and humor, Tan sheds light on her own writing process, sharing her hard-won insights on the nature of creativity and inspiration while exploring the universal urge to examine truth through the workings of imagination—and what that imaginative world tells us about our own lives. Where the Past Begins is both a unique look into the mind of an extraordinary storyteller and an indispensable guide for writers, artists, and other creative thinkers.

3. The Joy Luck Club

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Oct 18, 2016
Number of Pages: 354
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“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today. The Joy Luck Club In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan’s debut novel—now widely regarded as a modern classic—examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters.

4. The Valley Of Amazement

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Nov 05, 2013
Number of Pages: 421
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New York Times bestseller The Valley of Amazement is an evocative epic of two women”s intertwined fates and their search for identity—from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village. Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the daughter of the American madam of the city’s most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother and forced to become a “virgin courtesan.” Spanning more than forty years and two continents, Amy Tan’s newest novel maps the lives of three generations of women—and the mystery of an evocative painting known as “The Valley of Amazement.” Moving from the collapse of China’s last imperial dynasty to the growth of anti-foreign sentiment and the inner workings of courtesan houses, The Valley of Amazement interweaves the story of Violet, a celebrated Shanghai courtesan on a quest for both love and identity, and her mother, Lucia, an American woman whose search for penance leads them to an unexpected reunion. The Valley of Amazement is a deeply moving narrative of family secrets, legacies, and the profound connections between mothers and daughters, reminiscent of the compelling territory Tan so expertly mapped in The Joy Luck Club. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of inherited trauma, desire, deception, and the power and stubbornness of love.

5. The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Dec 28, 2010
Number of Pages: 370
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The “wisest and most captivating novel” (Boston Globe) from the author of the bestselling The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan”s The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her “yin eyes.” Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.

6. Saving Fish From Drowning: A Novel (Ballantine Reader’s Circle)

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Sep 26, 2006
Number of Pages: 530
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“A rollicking, adventure-filled story . . . packed [with] the human capacity for love.” –USA Today “A superbly executed, good-hearted farce that is part romance and part mystery . . . With Tan’s many talents on display, it’s her idiosyncratic wit and sly observations . . . that make this book pure pleasure.” –San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires. On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear. With picaresque characters and mesmerizing imagery, Saving Fish from Drowning gives us a voice as idiosyncratic, sharp, and affectionate as the mothers of The Joy Luck Club. Bibi is the observant eye of human nature–the witness of good intentions and bad outcomes, of desperate souls and those who wish to save them. In the end, Tan takes her readers to that place in their own heart where hope is found. “Amy Tan is among our great storytellers.” –The New York Times Book Review “Amy Tan has created an almost magical adventure that, page by page, becomes a metaphor for human relationships.” –Isabel Allende “With humor, ruthlessness, and wild imagination, Tan has reaped [a] fantastic tale of human longings and (of course) their consequences.” –Elle “A book that’s easy to read and hard to forget.” –Newsweek

7. The Bonesetter’s Daughter: A Novel (Ballantine Reader’s Circle)

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Feb 04, 2003
Number of Pages: 402
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““As compelling as Tan’s first bestseller, The Joy Luck Club. . . No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer “[An] absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond . . . this book sing[s] with emotion and insight.” –People Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . . In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headstrong LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker, a shocking series of events are set in motion–all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother’s past will forever change her perception of family, love, and forgiveness. “A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters; haunting images; historical complexity; significant contemporary themes; and suspenseful mystery.” –Los Angeles Times “For Tan, the true keeper of memory is language, and so the novel is layered with stories that have been written down–by mothers for their daughters, passing along secrets that cannot be said out loud but must not be forgotten.” –The New York Times Book Review “Tan at her best . . . rich and hauntingly forlorn . . . The writing is so exacting and unique in its detail.” –San Francisco Chronicle

8. The Opposite of Fate

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Jan 01, 2003
Number of Pages: 428
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The author reflects on her family”s Chinese American legacy, her experiences as a writer, her survival of natural disasters, and her struggle to manage three family members afflicted with brain disease.

9. Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Sep 01, 2001
Number of Pages: 36
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Ming Miao tells her kittens about the antics of one of their ancestors, Sagwa of China, that produced the unusual markings they have had for thousands of years.

10. Il circolo della fortuna e della felicità

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Jan 01, 2001
Number of Pages: 365
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Otto donne cinesi: quattro madri emigrate negli Stati Uniti negli anni quaranta che giocano a mah-jong a San Francisco e le loro quattro figlie nate in California, le cui voci si alternano e si richiamano nella ricostruzione del passato e nella ricerca di un difficile equilibrio con il presente. Un racconto che parla delle contraddizioni tra l”appartenenza a una famiglia cinese e la vita negli Stati Uniti; di rapporti conflittuali, ma anche fatti di profondo amore tra madre e figlia; delle motivazioni dei sacrifici compiuti dalle madri per trasmettere la propria esperienza e la propria forza alle figlie e delle ribellioni delle figlie ai desideri delle madri, dei loro diversi ideali, fedi, speranze.

11. Sagwa, the Chinese Siamise cat

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Jan 01, 2001
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12. The Moon Lady

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Nov 01, 1995
Number of Pages: 38
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A MAGICAL NIGHT WHEN SECRET WISHES CAN COME TRUE On a rainy afternoon, three sisters wish for the rain to stoop, wish they could play in the puddles, wish for something, anything, to do. So Ying-Ying, their grandmother, tells them a tale from long ago. On the night of the Moon Festival, when Ying-ying was a little girl, she encountered the Moon Lady, who grants the secret wishes of those who ask, and learned from her that the best wishes are those you can make come true yourself. This haunting tale, adapted from Amy Tan”s best-seller The Joy Luck Club and enhanced by Gretchen Schields”s rich, meticulously detailed art, is a book for all to treasure.

13. Mid-Life Confidential

by: Dave MarshStephen KingAmy TanRidley PearsonRoy Blount Jr.
Release date: Jan 01, 1995
Number of Pages: 240
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Writers and rock music critics describe their experiences touring with the rock band they formed to raise money for charity

14. The Kitchen God’s Wife

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Jan 01, 1991
Number of Pages: 748
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The mesmerizing story a Chinese emigre mother tells her daughter.

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The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

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The Housemaid

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Apr 26, 2023
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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I”ll soon learn that the Winchesters” secrets are far more dangerous than my own . . . Every day I clean the Winchesters” beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew”s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it”s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina”s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina”s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it”s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it”s far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don”t know who I really am. They don”t know what I”m capable of . . . An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won”t be able to put this down! Read what everyone”s saying about The Housemaid: “I got severe whiplash from the twistiest turns… Every time I thought I had it figured out… WRONG!!!… I am still reeling… outstanding… If you love a top notch psychological thriller that will have you questioning your own sanity, then this 5-star read is for you” NetGalley reviewer, FIVE STARS “What a wild ride!!! Freida definitely delivered the best twisty ending… Gripping from start to finish… honestly, I just could not put it down… An absolutely mind-blowing shocker that kept me guessing and on the edge of my seat literally until the very end” Goodreads reviewer, FIVE STARS “So many twists and turns… I was hooked right away – I even read my Kindle while waiting in my kid”s school pick-up line so I wouldn”t have to put this book down!… addictive… pure perfection!” Goodreads reviewer, FIVE STARS

More books by Freida McFadden

1. Ward D

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Jan 01, 2025
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“Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital”s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger. Amy”s worst nightmare was spending the night on Ward D. And now she might never escape”–

2. The Crash

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Jan 01, 2025
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“Tegan is eight months pregnant and her world is crashing down around her. The father of her baby wants nothing to do with her and has promised to make her life hell. She”s lost her job at the convenience store. And she has no idea what she”s going to do to take care of little one. In a last ditch effort to find help and get away from the threats of her ex, Tegan heads out in a storm to drive to her brother”s. But she never arrives. Tegan wakes in a ditch, having skidded off the road. Stranded and terrified, she”s taken in by a couple living in a remote farmhouse. But they may have ulterior motives and Tegan soon realizes she”s stuck in the middle of nowhere at the mercy of strangers. The nightmare she”s running from is nothing compared to where she”s headed”–

3. The Coworker

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Mar 13, 2024
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“Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone at work thinks so. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn”t show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrel–beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running–is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything. Now, Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who”s the real victim? But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff enough to killl”–

4. The Inmate

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Mar 01, 2024
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A gripping, twisty thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Housemaid”s Secret! There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men”s maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary”s most notorious and dangerous inmates. And they certainly don”t know that Shane was Brooke”s high school sweetheart–the star quarterback who is now spending the rest of his life in prison for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke”s testimony was what put him there. But Shane knows. And he will never forget.

5. The Teacher

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Feb 06, 2024
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A mind-bending, psychological thriller from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid! Lesson #1: trust no one Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except… Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal, with one student, Addie, at its center. And this year, Eve is dismayed to find the girl in her class. Addie can”t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that”s what everyone says. But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet. From the New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a story of twisting secrets and long-awaited revenge.

6. One By One

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Jan 01, 2024
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From New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a dark, twisting thriller about a group of friends lost in the woods: one by one, they each will fall, and only the killer will return home alive… A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with friends. It sounded like heaven. Then Claire”s minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel. But it turns out the woods aren”t as easy to navigate as they thought. Hours later, they are lost. Hopelessly lost. And as they navigate deeper into the woods, the members of their party are struck down mysteriously one by one. Has a wild animal been hunting them? Or is the hunter one of them? But as more time passes, one thing becomes clear: Only one of them will return home alive.

7. The Boyfriend

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Jan 01, 2024
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“Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. Then she meets Tom. Tom is utterly perfect. He”s charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Before she knows it, Sydney is swept off her feet. But the brutal murder of a young woman–the latest in a string of deaths across the coast–confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them. Sydney should feel safe. After all, she has Tom, the man of her dreams. But she can”t shake her own horrifying suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesn”t get to the truth soon, she”ll be the killer”s next victim.”–

8. The Perfect Son

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Jan 01, 2024
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From Freida McFadden, the New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker! “Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night…” Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika”s quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst–murder. And Erika”s teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he”s innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can”t deny the truth–Liam may have done the unthinkable. Now she must ask herself: How far will she go to protect her son?

9. Never Lie

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Dec 01, 2023
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A twisted, psychological thriller from USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid, Freida McFadden Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to Dr. Hale”s mysterious disappearance. Tricia plays the tapes one by one, late into the night. With each one, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and Dr. Adrienne Hale”s web of lies slowly unravels. And then Tricia reaches the final cassette. The one that reveals the entire horrifying truth.

10. The Locked Door

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Oct 03, 2023
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A twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid! Some doors are locked for a reason… While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora”s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims. Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she”s not a killer like her father. The police can”t pin anything on her. As long as they don”t look in her basement.

11. Echoes of Secrets

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Mar 06, 2023
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In a future world where technology has advanced to the point of controlling human emotions, a small group of rebels risks everything to unveil the dark truth behind the government”s control. As they race against time to stop a sinister plot that threatens to change humanity forever, they must confront their deepest fears, desires, and secrets. With unexpected plot twists and gripping suspense, “Echoes of Secrets: A Tale of Betrayal and Rebellion” takes you on a journey through a world of danger and intrigue where nothing is as it seems. You”ll meet a cast of characters who will capture your heart and imagination as they fight to save themselves and their world from a fate worse than death. Get ready to be transported to a world of adventure, mystery, and suspense, where the only way to survive is to trust your instincts and follow your heart. Don”t miss out on this thrilling ride. Get your copy of “Echoes of Secrets” today!

12. The Devil Wears Scrubs

by: Freida McFadden
Release date: Aug 23, 2013
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Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell.Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can”t imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital. And then there”s the devil herself: Jane”s senior resident Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa becomes absolutely hell-bent on making her new interns pay tenfold for the deadly sin of incompetence, Jane starts to worry that she may not make it through the year with her soul or her sanity still intact.

Last updated on Sunday, December 29, 2024

Atomic Habits by James Clear

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1. Good Habits (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

by: Harvard Business ReviewJames ClearRasmus HougaardJacqueline CarterWhitney Johnson
Release date: Apr 25, 2023
Number of Pages: 67
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Improve the way you work—and feel—by forming better habits. We all have habits. Some of them we”ve carefully established; others we may have simply fallen into. Some help us get our work done; others hold us back. This book explores how to change your behavior to break counterproductive tendencies, combat everyday stressors, and ultimately reach your goals at work and in life. This volume includes the work of: James Clear Rasmus Hougaard Jacqueline Carter Whitney Johnson How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

2. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance (with bonus article “The Right Way to Form New Habits” An interview with James Clear)

by: Harvard Business ReviewJames ClearDaniel GolemanHeidi GrantPeter F. Drucker
Release date: May 31, 2022
Number of Pages: 274
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Set yourself on the path to greatness. If you read nothing else on performing at your highest level, read these 10 articles. We”ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you learn what successful people do differently, find inspiration in your work, and achieve your full potential. This book will inspire you to: Identify the patterns that are holding you back Turn weaknesses into strengths and strengths into success Form the right habits to reach your goals Focus on the work that matters most Avoid the pitfalls of being a star performer Set the stage for others to excel This collection of articles includes “The Making of an Expert,” by K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely; “Managing Oneself,” by Peter F. Drucker; “Are You a High Potential?,” by Douglas A. Ready, Jay A. Conger, and Linda A. Hill, “Making Yourself Indispensable,” by John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, and Scott K. Edinger; “How to Play to Your Strengths,” by Laura Morgan Roberts, Gretchen Spreitzer, Jane Dutton, Robert Quinn, Emily Heaphy, and Brianna Barker Caza; “The Power of Small Wins,” by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer; “Nine Things Successful People Do Differently,” by Heidi Grant; “Make Time for the Work That Matters,” by Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen; “Don”t Be Blinded by Your Own Expertise,” by Sydney Finkelstein; “Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity,” by Ellen Langer and Alison Beard; “Primal Leadership,” by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee; and “The Right Way to Form New Habits,” by James Clear and Alison Beard. HBR”s 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR”s 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

3. Atomic Habits Summary (by James Clear)

by: James Clear
Number of Pages: 39
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SUMMARY: ATOMIC HABITS: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. This book is not meant to replace the original book but to serve as a companion to it. ABOUT ORIGINAL BOOK: Atomic Habits can help you improve every day, no matter what your goals are. As one of the world”s leading experts on habit formation, James Clear reveals practical strategies that will help you form good habits, break bad ones, and master tiny behaviors that lead to big changes. If you”re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn”t you. Instead, the issue is with your system. There is a reason bad habits repeat themselves over and over again, it”s not that you are not willing to change, but that you have the wrong system for changing. “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems” – James Clear I’m a huge fan of this book, and as soon as I read it I knew it was going to make a big difference in my life, so I couldn’t wait to make a video on this book and share my ideas. Here is a link to James Clear’s website, where I found he uploads a tonne of useful posts on motivation, habit formation and human psychology. DISCLAIMER: This is an UNOFFICIAL summary and not the original book. It designed to record all the key points of the original book.

Last updated on Monday, December 23, 2024

The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

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The Backyard Bird Chronicles

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Apr 23, 2024
Number of Pages: 321
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club • With a foreword by David Allen Sibley “Unexpected and spectacular” —Ann Patchett, best-selling author of These Precious Days “The drawings and essays in this book do a lot more than just describe the birds. They carry a sense of discovery through observation and drawing, suggest the layers of patterns in the natural world, and emphasize a deep personal connection between the watcher and the watched. The birds that inhabit Amy Tan’s backyard seem a lot like the characters in her novels.” —David Allen Sibley, from the foreword Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions, and beautiful original sketches. With boundless charm and wit, author Amy Tan charts her foray into birding and the natural wonders of the world. In 2016, Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds visiting her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater—an opportunity to savor quiet moments during a volatile time, connect to nature in a meaningful way, and imagine the intricate lives of the birds she admired.

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1. Revisiting the Depths – Overcoming Fear and Finding Peace

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Aug 01, 2024
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Revisiting the Depths: Overcoming Fear and Finding Peace is a masterful memoir that takes readers on an emotional and spiritual odyssey, exploring the profound themes of healing, resilience, and self-discovery.

2. Where The Past Begins

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Oct 17, 2017
Number of Pages: 402
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From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination. As seen on PBS American Masters “Unintended Memoir.” In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals the ways that our memories and personal experiences can inform our creative work. Drawing on her vivid impressions of her upbringing, Tan investigates the truths and inspirations behind her writing while illuminating how we all explore, confront, and process complex memories, especially half-forgotten ones from childhood. With candor, empathy, and humor, Tan sheds light on her own writing process, sharing her hard-won insights on the nature of creativity and inspiration while exploring the universal urge to examine truth through the workings of imagination—and what that imaginative world tells us about our own lives. Where the Past Begins is both a unique look into the mind of an extraordinary storyteller and an indispensable guide for writers, artists, and other creative thinkers.

3. The Joy Luck Club

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Oct 18, 2016
Number of Pages: 354
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“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today. The Joy Luck Club In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan’s debut novel—now widely regarded as a modern classic—examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters.

4. The Valley Of Amazement

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Nov 05, 2013
Number of Pages: 421
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New York Times bestseller The Valley of Amazement is an evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity—from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village. Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the daughter of the American madam of the city’s most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother and forced to become a “virgin courtesan.” Spanning more than forty years and two continents, Amy Tan’s newest novel maps the lives of three generations of women—and the mystery of an evocative painting known as “The Valley of Amazement.” Moving from the collapse of China’s last imperial dynasty to the growth of anti-foreign sentiment and the inner workings of courtesan houses, The Valley of Amazement interweaves the story of Violet, a celebrated Shanghai courtesan on a quest for both love and identity, and her mother, Lucia, an American woman whose search for penance leads them to an unexpected reunion. The Valley of Amazement is a deeply moving narrative of family secrets, legacies, and the profound connections between mothers and daughters, reminiscent of the compelling territory Tan so expertly mapped in The Joy Luck Club. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of inherited trauma, desire, deception, and the power and stubbornness of love.

5. The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Dec 28, 2010
Number of Pages: 370
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The “wisest and most captivating novel” (Boston Globe) from the author of the bestselling The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her “yin eyes.” Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.

6. Saving Fish From Drowning: A Novel (Ballantine Reader’s Circle)

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Sep 26, 2006
Number of Pages: 530
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“A rollicking, adventure-filled story . . . packed [with] the human capacity for love.” –USA Today “A superbly executed, good-hearted farce that is part romance and part mystery . . . With Tan’s many talents on display, it’s her idiosyncratic wit and sly observations . . . that make this book pure pleasure.” –San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires. On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear. With picaresque characters and mesmerizing imagery, Saving Fish from Drowning gives us a voice as idiosyncratic, sharp, and affectionate as the mothers of The Joy Luck Club. Bibi is the observant eye of human nature–the witness of good intentions and bad outcomes, of desperate souls and those who wish to save them. In the end, Tan takes her readers to that place in their own heart where hope is found. “Amy Tan is among our great storytellers.” –The New York Times Book Review “Amy Tan has created an almost magical adventure that, page by page, becomes a metaphor for human relationships.” –Isabel Allende “With humor, ruthlessness, and wild imagination, Tan has reaped [a] fantastic tale of human longings and (of course) their consequences.” –Elle “A book that’s easy to read and hard to forget.” –Newsweek

7. The Bonesetter’s Daughter: A Novel (Ballantine Reader’s Circle)

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Feb 04, 2003
Number of Pages: 402
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““As compelling as Tan’s first bestseller, The Joy Luck Club. . . No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer “[An] absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond . . . this book sing[s] with emotion and insight.” –People Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . . In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headstrong LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker, a shocking series of events are set in motion–all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother’s past will forever change her perception of family, love, and forgiveness. “A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters; haunting images; historical complexity; significant contemporary themes; and suspenseful mystery.” –Los Angeles Times “For Tan, the true keeper of memory is language, and so the novel is layered with stories that have been written down–by mothers for their daughters, passing along secrets that cannot be said out loud but must not be forgotten.” –The New York Times Book Review “Tan at her best . . . rich and hauntingly forlorn . . . The writing is so exacting and unique in its detail.” –San Francisco Chronicle

8. The Opposite of Fate

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Jan 01, 2003
Number of Pages: 428
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The author reflects on her family’s Chinese American legacy, her experiences as a writer, her survival of natural disasters, and her struggle to manage three family members afflicted with brain disease.

9. Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Sep 01, 2001
Number of Pages: 36
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Ming Miao tells her kittens about the antics of one of their ancestors, Sagwa of China, that produced the unusual markings they have had for thousands of years.

10. Il circolo della fortuna e della felicità

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Jan 01, 2001
Number of Pages: 365
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Otto donne cinesi: quattro madri emigrate negli Stati Uniti negli anni quaranta che giocano a mah-jong a San Francisco e le loro quattro figlie nate in California, le cui voci si alternano e si richiamano nella ricostruzione del passato e nella ricerca di un difficile equilibrio con il presente. Un racconto che parla delle contraddizioni tra l’appartenenza a una famiglia cinese e la vita negli Stati Uniti; di rapporti conflittuali, ma anche fatti di profondo amore tra madre e figlia; delle motivazioni dei sacrifici compiuti dalle madri per trasmettere la propria esperienza e la propria forza alle figlie e delle ribellioni delle figlie ai desideri delle madri, dei loro diversi ideali, fedi, speranze.

11. Sagwa, the Chinese Siamise cat

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Jan 01, 2001
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12. The Moon Lady

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Nov 01, 1995
Number of Pages: 38
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A MAGICAL NIGHT WHEN SECRET WISHES CAN COME TRUE On a rainy afternoon, three sisters wish for the rain to stoop, wish they could play in the puddles, wish for something, anything, to do. So Ying-Ying, their grandmother, tells them a tale from long ago. On the night of the Moon Festival, when Ying-ying was a little girl, she encountered the Moon Lady, who grants the secret wishes of those who ask, and learned from her that the best wishes are those you can make come true yourself. This haunting tale, adapted from Amy Tan’s best-seller The Joy Luck Club and enhanced by Gretchen Schields’s rich, meticulously detailed art, is a book for all to treasure.

13. Mid-Life Confidential

by: Dave MarshStephen KingAmy TanRidley PearsonRoy Blount Jr.
Release date: Jan 01, 1995
Number of Pages: 240
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Writers and rock music critics describe their experiences touring with the rock band they formed to raise money for charity

14. The Kitchen God’s Wife

by: Amy Tan
Release date: Jan 01, 1991
Number of Pages: 748
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The mesmerizing story a Chinese emigre mother tells her daughter.

Last updated on Monday, December 23, 2024

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

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Wicked

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Sep 29, 2009
Number of Pages: 435
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When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum’s classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? Gregory Maguire has created a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again.

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1. Leaping Beauty

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Apr 08, 2025
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2. Elphie

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Mar 25, 2025
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Pre-order now to receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION— only available on the first printing while supplies last! The collector’s hardcover features stenciled edges and a color illustrated map of Oz. What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West—setting the stage for the blockbuster international phenomenon that is Wicked: The Musical. Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl. Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, which live adjacent to but not intertwined with human settlements, haunted by a Monkey and receiving aid from Dwarf Bears. She thrashes through her first bruising attempts at friendship, a possible lifeline from her tricky family life. And she gleans the benefits of an education, haphazard though it must be—until she arrives at the doors of Shiz University, about to meet the radiant creature that is Galinda. Elphie is destined to be a witch; she bears the markings from childhood—most evidently in her green skin but more obscurely and profoundly in her cunning and perhaps amoral behaviors, as she seeks to make do, to slip by, to sneak out, to endure, and to aspire.

3. The Brides of Maracoor

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Sep 13, 2022
Number of Pages: 384
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The first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years from multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire, featuring Elphaba’s granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain. “An exquisitely crafted introduction to a new fantasy trilogy.” — People Over a decade ago, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz. But “out of Oz” isn’t “gone for good.” Maguire’s new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives. Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices. As the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the island’s civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and wellbeing of an entire nation. Is it myth or magic at work, for good or for ill? The trilogy Another Day follows this green-skinned girl from the island outpost into the unmapped badlands of Maracoor before she learns how, and becomes ready, to turn her broom homeward, back to her family and her lover, back to Oz, which–in its beauty, suffering, mystery, injustice, and possibility–reminds us all too clearly of the troubled yet sacred terrain of our own lives.

4. A Wild Winter Swan

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Oct 06, 2020
Number of Pages: 245
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After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Wild Swans,” transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl’s poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York. Following her brother’s death and her mother’s emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative’s financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman’s heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.

5. After Alice

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Jan 01, 2015
Number of Pages: 273
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Returning to the mid-19th century summer day on which Alice disappeared into Wonderland, Gregory Maguire traces what happened to her sister, left behind on an Oxford riverbank, and what happened when Alice’s friend, Ada, followed her down the rabbit hole!

6. Out Of Oz

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Nov 01, 2011
Number of Pages: 526
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“Maguire’s work is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave. How great that people flock to these magical novels.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review Bestselling author Gregory Maguire’s remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and final excursion across a darker, richer, more complex landscape of “the magical land of Oz.” Out of Oz brilliantly reimagines L. Frank Baum’s world over the rainbow as wracked with social unrest—placing Glinda the good witch under house arrest and having the cowardly Lion on the lam from the law as the Emerald City prepares to make war on Munchkinland. Even Dorothy makes a triumphant return in Maguire’s magnificent Oz finale—tying up every loose green end of the series he began with his classic Wicked, the basis for the smash hit Broadway musical.

7. Mirror Mirror

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Sep 28, 2010
Number of Pages: 306
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The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. One day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm—and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia—decadent children of a wicked pope—no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a year’s quest to reclaim a relic of the original Tree of Knowledge, he leaves Bianca under the care, so to speak, of Lucrezia. She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but in the dark forest there can be found salvation as well. . . . A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror gives fresh life to the classic story of Snow White—and has a truth and beauty all its own.

8. Matchless

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Sep 28, 2010
Number of Pages: 114
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The beloved New York Times bestselling author of Wicked reimagines Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl” for modern readers, putting a new twist on a timeless classic. In Matchless, Gregory Maguire adds a different dimension to the story, exquisitely intertwining the match girl’s tale with that of Frederik, a young boy who builds a city out of trash, and whose yearnings are the catalyst for a better future for himself and his family. Maguire uses his storytelling magic to rekindle Andersen’s original intentions, suggesting transcendence, the permanence of spirit, and the continuity that links the living and the dead.

9. What-the-Dickens

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Apr 06, 2010
Number of Pages: 302
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“Gregory Maguire does for the dark and stormy night what he did for witches in Wicked.” — The New York Times Book Review A terrible storm is raging, and Dinah is huddled by candlelight with her brother, sister, and cousin Gage, who is telling a very unusual tale. It’s thestory of What-the-Dickens, a newly hatched orphan creature who finds he has an attraction to teeth, a crush on a cat named McCavity, and a penchant for getting into trouble. One day he happens upon a feisty girl skibberee working as an Agent of Change — trading coins for teeth — and learns of a dutiful tribe of tooth fairies to which he hopes to belong. As his tale unfolds, however, both What-the-Dickens and Dinah come to see that the world is both richer and far less sure than they ever imagined.

10. A Lion Among Men

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Aug 25, 2009
Number of Pages: 336
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Since the publication of Wicked, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire’s fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion. At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire’s A Lion Among Men is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.

11. Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Mar 17, 2009
Number of Pages: 386
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Is this new land a place where magics really happen? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings…. When we grow up, we learn that it’s far more common for human beings to turn into rats…. We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . and what curses accompanied Cinderella’s exquisite looks? Extreme beauty is an affliction Set against the rich backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris’s path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. Clara was the prettiest child, but was her life the prettiest tale? While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, burning all memories of her past, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household–and the treacherous truth of her former life. God and Satan snarling at each other like dogs…. Imps and fairy godmotbers trying to undo each other’s work. How we try to pin the world between opposite extremes! Far more than a mere fairy-tale, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel of beauty and betrayal, illusion and understanding, reminding us that deception can be unearthed–and love unveiled–in the most unexpected of places.

12. Lost

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Mar 17, 2009
Number of Pages: 376
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“A brilliant, perceptive, and deeply moving fable.” —Boston Sunday Globe Publishers Weekly calls Gregory Maguire’s Lost “a deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story.” Brilliantly weaving together the literary threads of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, and the Jack the Ripper stories, the bestselling author of The Wicked Years canon creates a captivating fairy tale for the modern world. With Lost, Maguire—who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Oz, and inspired the creation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway blockbuster Wicked—delivers a haunting tale of shadows and phantoms and things going bump in the night, confirming his reputation as “one of contemporary fiction’s most assured myth-makers” (Kirkus Reviews).

13. Son Of A Witch

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Sep 30, 2008
Number of Pages: 467
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In this captivating New York Times bestseller, beloved author Gregory Maguire returns to the land ofOz and introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. At the Cloister of Saint Glinda the silent novice Candle tends to him, willing him back to life with her unusual musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba’s son? He has her broom and her cape—but what of her powers? Can he find his half-sister, Nor, last seen in the forbidding prison Southstairs? Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess? In an Oz that, since the Wizard’s departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up? For the countless fans who have been dazzled and entranced by Maguire’s Oz, Son of a Witch is the rich reward they have awaited so long.

14. A Couple of April Fools

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Jan 01, 2004
Number of Pages: 182
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At a Vermont elementary school, April Fools’ Day takes on a sinister tone when a teacher goes missing and several suspects emerge, among them the teacher’s fiance and a missing mutant chick.

15. The Dream Stealer

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Jan 01, 2002
Number of Pages: 132
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Out of Russia’s northern forests, once every generation or so, an evil wolf named Blood Prince walks, causing two young children to seek the witch Baba Yaga and ask her help in saving their village. Reissue.

16. Four Stupid Cupids

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Jan 01, 2001
Number of Pages: 242
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The students’ scheme to find a love match for their beloved teacher on Valentine’s Day turns into a comedy of errors when four stupid cupids from Ancient Greece try to help.

17. The Good Liar

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Jan 01, 1999
Number of Pages: 129
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Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene befriended a young German soldier. By the author of Five Alien Elves.

18. Five Alien Elves

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Jan 01, 1998
Number of Pages: 180
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The town of Hamlet has a very unusual Christmas when aliens crash land in a UFO, escalating the competition between the rival clubs, the Copycats and the Tattletales.

19. Six Haunted Hairdos

by: Gregory Maguire
Release date: Jan 01, 1997
Number of Pages: 168
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With the help of their favorite teacher, two rival clubs, the all-boy Copycats and the all-girl Tattletales, stop trying to out-do each other long enough to help the ghosts of a baby elephant and a herd of mastodons that appear near their small Vermont town.

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Melania by Melania Trump

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Melania

by: Melania Trump
Release date: Oct 08, 2024
Number of Pages: 311
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An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller Melania is a compelling and inspirational memoir that offers a glimpse into the life of a remarkable woman who has navigated challenges with grace and determination. In her memoir, Melania reflects on her Slovenian childhood, the pivotal moments that led her to the world of high fashion in Europe and New York, and the serendipitous meeting with Donald Trump, a chance encounter that forever changed the course of her life. Melania opens up about their courtship, life in the spotlight, and experiencing the joy of motherhood. She shares behind-the-scenes stories from her time in the White House, shedding light on her advocacy work and the causes close to her heart. Melania offers an unprecedented look into her time as a First Lady who was born outside the United States — a role she embraced with honor and dedication. It brings readers into her world and presents an in-depth account of a woman who has led a remarkable life on her own terms. Melania Trump”s story is one of resilience and independence, showcasing her strength and unwavering commitment to her true self.

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James by Percival Everett

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James

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Mar 19, 2024
Number of Pages: 274
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE BOOKER PRIZE • KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim”s point of view In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg • A Best Book of the Year of the Year so Far for 2024: The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, W Magazine, Bustle, LitHub “Genius”—The Atlantic • “A masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own.”—Chicago Tribune • “A provocative, enlightening literary work of art.”—The Boston Globe • “Everett’s most thrilling novel, but also his most soulful.”—The New York Times When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.

More books by Percival Everett

1. So Much Blue

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Mar 21, 2024
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2. I Am Not Sidney Poitier

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Mar 21, 2024
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3. Watershed

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Mar 05, 2024
Number of Pages: 210
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A classic of politics, murder, and espionage “Watershed has all the makings of a social thriller…In this novel about water and the struggle for a life free of injustice, the mix doesn”t just work, it flows.” — Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio “It’s hard . . . to imagine a novelist today with fresher eyes than Percival Everett.”―Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationship between Native American activists and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies in the 1960s Civil Rights movement. Watershed is an excellent example of Percival Everett’s famed bitingly political narrative style.

4. Doctor No

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Feb 06, 2024
Number of Pages: 219
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El protagonista de la novela es un brillante profesor de matemáticas experto en nada que no hace nada. Eso lo convierte en el socio perfecto de un aspirante a villano Bond que quiere entrar en Fort Knox para robar, no los lingotes de oro, sino una caja de zapatos que no contiene nada. A través de la voz de este profesor asperger, Percival Everett vuelve a utilizar el absurdo para hacer una brillante crítica a los valores de la sociedad actual. Cualquier habitante de este mundo puede sentir desde la carcajada cómo nos encaminamos hacia un mundo sin sentido. La salvación está en lo cercano, en las relaciones auténticas, aunque sean disparatadas. Una lectura fácil escrita en un continuo diálogo inteligente, absurdo y mordaz.

5. Sonnets for a Missing Key

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 01, 2024
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“Do keys matter? Do they speak to different parts of us? Inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum, these experimental sonnets seek to question timbre and tone. That”s bullshit. They are just sonnets”–

6. Dr. No

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 01, 2023
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7. The Trees

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Sep 21, 2021
Number of Pages: 305
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Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize Winner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Finalist for the 2022 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in a fast-paced style that ensures the reader can’t look away. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America’s pulse.

8. The Book of Training

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 15, 2019
Number of Pages: 48
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Slave masters were people, too. From recent texts and films we have learned that slavery was a bad thing. Colonel Hap Thompson was simply a man about his business. His business was training other people.

9. God’s Country

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Apr 18, 2016
Number of Pages: 256
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10. Half an Inch of Water

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Sep 15, 2015
Number of Pages: 175
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A new collection of stories set in the West from “one of the most gifted and versatile of contemporary writers” (NPR) Percival Everett”s long-awaited new collection of stories, his first since 2004”s Damned If I Do, finds him traversing the West with characteristic restlessness. A deaf Native American girl wanders off into the desert and is found untouched in a den of rattlesnakes. A young boy copes with the death of his sister by angling for an unnaturally large trout in the creek where she drowned. An old woman rides her horse into a mountain snowstorm and sees a long-dead beloved dog. For the plainspoken men and women of these stories—fathers and daughters, sheriffs and veterinarians—small events trigger sudden shifts in which the ordinary becomes unfamiliar. A harmless comment about how to ride a horse changes the course of a relationship, a snakebite gives rise to hallucinations, and the hunt for a missing man reveals his uncanny resemblance to an actor. Half an Inch of Water tears through the fabric of the everyday to examine what lies beneath the surface of these lives. In the hands of master storyteller Everett, the act of questioning leads to vistas more strange and unsettling than could ever have been expected.

11. Damned If I Do

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Feb 18, 2014
Number of Pages: 163
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Damned If I Do is an exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel Erasure People are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid. A cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen, and a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed car chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets, and a sexual-identity problem. Percival Everett is a master storyteller who ingeniously addresses issues of race and prejudice by simultaneously satirizing and celebrating the human condition.

12. Big Picture

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Feb 18, 2014
Number of Pages: 148
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Winner of the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature The characters in Big Picture, Percival Everett”s darkly comic collection of stories, are often driven to explosive, life-changing action. Everett delves into those moments when outside forces bring us to the brink of insanity or liberation. The catalysts in Everett”s tales are surprising: a stuffed boar”s head, mounted on the wall of a diner, becomes an object of intense, inexplicable desire; a painter is driven to the point of suicide by a mute who returns day after day to mow the artist”s lawn; the loss of a pair of dentures sparks a turn toward revelation. The characters respond to their dilemmas in ways that are both unpredictable and memorable. Everett”s highly original voice propels the reader into unfamiliar, yet unforgettable terrain: a landscape full of excitement, astonishment, and self-discovery.

13. Glyph

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Feb 18, 2014
Number of Pages: 216
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In paperback for the first time, the much-beloved satirical novel The New York Times praised as “both a treatise and a romp” Baby Ralph has ways to pass the time in his crib—but they don”t include staring at a mobile. Aided by his mother, he reads voraciously: “All of Swift, all of Sterne, Invisible Man, Baldwin, Joyce, Balzac, Auden, Roethke,” along with a generous helping of philosophy, semiotics, and trashy thrillers. He”s also fond of writing poems and stories (in crayon). But Ralph has limits. He”s mute by choice and can”t drive, so in his own estimation he”s not a genius. Unfortunately for him, everyone else disagrees. His psychiatrist kidnaps him for testing, and once his brilliance is quantified (IQ: 475), a Pentagon officer also abducts him. Diabolically funny and lacerating in its critique of poststructuralism, Glyph has the feverish plot of a thriller and the philosophical depth of a text by Roland Barthes. If anyone can map the wilds of literary theory, it”s Ralph, one of Percival Everett”s most enduring creations.

14. Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Feb 05, 2013
Number of Pages: 223
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“Anything we take for granted, Mr. Everett means to show us, may turn out to be a lie.” —Wall Street Journal * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction * A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write? Let”s simplify: a woman seeks an apprenticeship with a painter, claiming to be his long-lost daughter. A contractor-for-hire named Murphy can”t distinguish between the two brothers who employ him. And in Murphy”s troubled dreams, Nat Turner imagines the life of William Styron. These narratives twist together with anecdotes from the nursing home, each building on the other until they crest in a wild, outlandish excursion of the inmates led by the father. Anchoring these shifting plotlines is a running commentary between father and son that sheds doubt on the truthfulness of each story. Because, after all, what narrator can we ever trust? Not only is Percival Everett by Virgil Russell a powerful, compassionate meditation on old age and its humiliations, it is an ingenious culmination of Everett”s recurring preoccupations. All of his prior work, his metaphysical and philosophical inquiries, his investigations into the nature of narrative, have led to this masterful book. Percival Everett has never been more cunning, more brilliant and subversive, than he is in this, his most important and elusive novel to date.

15. Erasure

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Oct 25, 2011
Number of Pages: 343
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Percival Everett”s blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as the Academy Award-winning AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright Thelonious “Monk” Ellison”s writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been “critically acclaimed.” He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We”s Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited “some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days.” Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies—his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer”s, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father”s suicide seven years before. In his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkins”s bestseller. He doesn”t intend for My Pafology to be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is—under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh—and soon it becomes the Next Big Thing. How Monk deals with the personal and professional fallout galvanizes this audacious, hysterical, and quietly devastating novel.

16. Assumption

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Oct 25, 2011
Number of Pages: 245
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A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman”s murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy leads for even flimsier reasons. His hunt leads him from the seamier side of Denver to a hippie commune as he seeks the puzzling solution. In Assumption, his follow-up to the wickedly funny I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett is in top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning. A wild ride to the heart of a baffling mystery, Assumption is a literary thriller like no other.

17. Wounded

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Sep 13, 2011
Number of Pages: 235
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Time Out Chicago, Top 10 Book of 2005 Winner of the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction Training horses is dangerous—a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle and little sense takes courage, but more important, patience and smarts. It is these same qualities that allow John and his uncle Gus to live in the beautiful high desert of Wyoming. A black horse trainer is a curiosity, at the very least, but a familiar curiosity in these parts. It is the brutal murder of a young gay man, however, that pushes this small community to the teetering edge of intolerance. Highly praised for his storytelling and ability to address the toughest issues of our time with humor, grace, and originality, Wounded by Percival Everett offers a brilliant novel that explores the alarming consequences of hatred in a divided America.

18. The Water Cure

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Sep 13, 2011
Number of Pages: 233
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I am guilty not because of my actions, to which I freely admit, but for my accession, admission, confession that I executed these actions with not only deliberation and premeditation but with zeal and paroxysm and purpose . . . The true answer to your question is shorter than the lie. Did you? I did. This is a confession of a victim turned villain. When Ishmael Kidder”s eleven-year-old daughter is brutally murdered, it stands to reason that he must take revenge by any means necessary. The punishment is carried out without guilt, and with the usual equipment—duct tape, rope, and superglue. But the tools of psychological torture prove to be the most devastating of all. Percival Everett”s most lacerating indictment to date, The Water Cure follows the gruesome reasoning and execution of revenge in a society that has lost a common moral ground, where rules are meaningless. A master storyteller, Everett draws upon disparate elements of Western philosophy, language theory, and military intelligence reports to create a terrifying story of loss, anger, and helplessness in our modern world. This is a timely and important novel that confronts the dark legacy of the Bush years and the state of America today.

19. Swimming Swimmers Swimming

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 01, 2011
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These poems question the sounds that are meaning. They interrogate where meaning resides and whether they are in any way, rigidly or loosely, wed to the words that carry it. There is a nod toward logic and at once an acceptance of its limits. These poems are landscapes, the meaning altering with the movement of clouds, with the changing light. Irony sometimes is the way we can be earnest.

20. Re: F (gesture)

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 01, 2006
Number of Pages: 80
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Praise for Percival Everett: “. . . Artful and literate, Everett explores the philosophical, the metaphysical, the physical and the psychological boundaries of human life . . .” –Terry D”Auray “. . . Everett achieves a primal sense of dislocation, forcing us to question how we determine the limits of the human . . . ” –Sven Birkets, The New York Times “. . . The audacious, uncategorizable Everett. He mixes genre and tone with absolute abandon, never does the same song twice. Brilliant . . .” –The Boston Globe “. . . An author who dances with language as effortlessly as Fred Astaire.” –Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael

21. American Desert

by: Percival Everett
Release date: May 05, 2004
Number of Pages: 312
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A man is beheaded in an auto accident and after his head is sloppily sewed back onto his body by the undertaker he comes back alive and sits up in his coffin at his funeral.

22. Grand Canyon, Inc

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 01, 2001
Number of Pages: 150
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Big-game hunter Rhino Tanner seeks to develop the Grand Canyon into an amusement park but unleashes forces that he cannot comprehend or control.

23. The One that Got Away

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 01, 1992
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Three cowhands chase and corral ones in this zany book about the Wild West.

24. Zulus

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 01, 1990
Number of Pages: 256
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In Percival Everett”s sixth book of dark, comic moralizing on the fate of the planet, its people, and the absurd Meaning of It All, readers are taken into the pitiable life of Alice Achitophel, a grotesquely obese government clerk, social outcast, and, apparently, the world”s only fertile woman in the aftermath of worldwide nuclear holocaust. The ultimate question is humanity”s survival. — San Francisco Chronicle New American Writing Award

25. For Her Dark Skin

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 01, 1990
Number of Pages: 160
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26. The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 01, 1987
Number of Pages: 128
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These stories by Percival Everett, teacher at the University of Kentucky and author of Suder, Walk Me to the Distance and Cutting Lisa, are unified by spare dialogue, tight plot development andout.

27. Cutting Lisa

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 01, 1986
Number of Pages: 168
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Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world”s crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one to deliver their child. Though initially appalled by the act, Livesey finds himself recalling it later when he learns a friend is dying of cancer, when his affair with a younger woman ends in disillusionment, and when, during an extended visit to his son and his family in Oregon, he realizes his daughter-in-law”s unborn baby does not belong to her husband. Coming to admire the calm directness with which the man took matters of life and death into his own hands, Livesey begins to reconsider what he values and what he will protect. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

28. Walk Me to the Distance

by: Percival Everett
Release date: Jan 01, 1985
Number of Pages: 236
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