![]() ![]() ![]() But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.Īdam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. ![]() “All great and precious things are lonely.”įirst Edition | First Printing by John Steinbeck ![]()
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![]() ![]() Starting school in second grade, she was shunted into a special ed classroom where she had to teach herself to read on her own. From the age of 7, she worked alongside her mother in a garment-industry sweatshop and in a freezing sushi factory. Nonetheless, after his traumatic experiences as a child during the Cultural Revolution, her father remained fiercely loyal to the “beautiful country,” which is the literal translation of Mei Guo, the Chinese word for America.īut beautiful is not the word for most of the experiences Wang describes. While both were professors in China, in the United States they did backbreaking menial labor and lived in constant terror and privation well below the poverty line. 7), tells the story of “how one little girl found her way through the terror, hunger, exhaustion, and cruelty of an undocumented childhood in New York’s Chinatown…engaging readers through all five senses and the heart.” It is also Wang’s parents’ story. According to our reviewer, Qian Julie Wang’s debut memoir, Beautiful Country (Doubleday, Sept. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's a reason Knox doesn't do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. Now she's stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of. After helping herself to Naomi's car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn't changed at all. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way. Naomi wasn't just running away from her wedding. Knox doesn't tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. ![]() Discover the rest of the books that made it into our Top 101 list.īearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. From that, we share the Top 101 winners for everyone to enjoy. This book made it to #54 in our Top 101 2023! Every year we ask our Booklovers to vote for their favourite book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, we encourage above all else to read scripture and look for Jesus everywhere (Luke 24:27, 44-47).Īlthough we fight for the sufficiency of God’s ability to save, sanctify, and glorify us by His Spirit, through His Word, we also understand that the Lord has blessed his body with “apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ” (Eph. ![]() It is said to be truth (John 17:17), unbreakable (John 10:35), living and powerful (Heb. 3:17), and praises all its own perfections (Ps. The Bible itself commends those who weigh all things by the Scriptures (Acts 17:11), speaks of its own ability to furnish christians “for every good work” (2 Tim. ![]() Before starting your journey into any of these other books, we would encourage you to systematically immerse yourself in God’s Word, as it is the only inerrant and authoritative revelation that needs no qualifications. Our first and highest recommendation is the Bible. ![]() ![]() ![]() He spent fortunes on building a bomb-shelter and faking an apocalypse, simply to impress three people that did him wrong in the past. His character Paul Radin is obnoxious, arrogant, selfish, filthy rich and cowardly. No", depicts the most despicable type of anti-hero imaginable. And the rest of the episode is awesome as well! Genuinely one of my favorites of the entire three first seasons thus far, especially because I like my themes apocalyptic, my dialogues extended and eloquent and - last not but least - my villains as evil as possible! Joseph Wiseman, immortal thanks to his role of "Dr. True, in Christie's tale, they're all bad people hiding sinister secrets, whereas here they are good-hearted, and the host is malignant. In both tales, unknowing people are summoned by a secretive host and to an isolated place under false conditions. It's perhaps just my overactive imagination, but I was thrilled to see a rather big resemblance between the tale "One More Pallbearer" and what is probably Christie's most famous novel - "And then there were None". What I arguably love even more is the repertoire of Agatha Christie. ![]() I love The Twilight Zone, obviously, since it's one of the greatest TV-shows in history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her novel The Wonder was a finalist for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and more recently, The Pull of the Stars was longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. Room was an international bestseller and was adapted into a critically acclaimed film starring Brie Larson. Her books include the novels Landing, Room, Frog Music, The Wonder, The Pull of the Stars and the children's book The Lotterys Plus One. In such a place, what will survival mean? (From HarperCollins Canada)Įmma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian writer. ![]() Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find the impossibly steep, bare island known today as Skellig Michael. With two monks - young Trian and old Cormac - he rows down the River Shannon in search of an isolated spot in which to found a monastery. The author of Kissing the Witch and The Room, which was adapted into a wonderful film in 2015, tells us the books that left a lasting impression and. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar priest named Artt has a dream in which God tells him to leave the sinful world behind. ![]() Around the year 600, three men vow to leave the world behind and set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is no question now that humanity must leave the petrochemical age behind for the sunny uplands of carbon net-zero energy production. Today, we live in a world dominated by both the progress enabled by this revolution and the increasingly deadly consequences of it. By 1884, more than 10,000 miles of pipeline crisscrossed the United States and by 1907, it was said that oil pipelines had “a girdle around the world, twice over”. ![]() ![]() The first long-distance pipeline (110 miles) was built in Pennsylvania in 1879. ![]() For the first time in history, broad swathes of humanity had true energy abundance as the price per barrel crashed from $10/barrel to $0.10/barrel over the same period, making lighting and heating oil affordable to most Americans.Įnergy abundance spread to every corner of the globe over the subsequent decades as innovation and investments in infrastructure distributed what was considered a “miracle liquid” to cities and farms the world over. Growth went exponential as money, people and innovation flooded the new market production grew to 450,000 barrels by 1860 and onwards to 3 million barrels by 1862. In 1858 ‘Colonel’ Edwin Drake became the first American to strike oil in the state of Pennsylvania, kicking off the most significant energy revolution in history and the start of the petrochemical age. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fields spun by, lightening to gray, the faintest of gold at the tops of the trees. We’re O.K., thanks, my mother said, and sat beside her younger brother, who rested his head on her arm. Their mother would be waiting there for them. Palmer considered her, then nodded, my mother asked quickly if she could please drop the three of them off when she picked up the Yoder kids. The bus hissed up from its crouch and lumbered off. She looked at my mother as she shut the bus door, then said in her singsong voice, You got yourself a shiner there, Michelle. ![]() ![]() Palmer, the driver, was a stout lady who played the organ at church, and whose voice when she shouted at the naughty boys in the back was high like soprano singing. She let her brothers get on before her and told them to sit in the front seats. Its slowness as it pulled up was agonizing. At last it showed itself, yellow as sunrise at the end of the road. They were so far out in the country, the bus came for them first, and the ride to town was long. My mother touched her eye and winced at the pain there, then shrugged. ![]() After some time, the older brother said, Kids are going to make fun of you, your face all mashed up like that. It was bitterly cold that day and the wind was supposed to rise, but for now all was airless, waiting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Up-and-coming chef DJ Caine has known people like Trisha before, people who judge him by his rough beginnings and place pedigree above character. So long as she doesn’t repeat old mistakes. ![]() But now she has a chance to redeem herself. Trisha is guilty of breaking all three rules. ![]() Never do anything to jeopardize your brother’s political aspirations.But that’s not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who’s achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules: Trisha Raje is San Francisco’s most acclaimed neurosurgeon. It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered a black sheep.ĭr. Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco. ![]() ![]() ![]() Slapstick comedy and humor is used in conjunction with those to break the tension. There’s a demon in one quick but pretty bone-chilling sequence, a shapeshifting character appears who’s a little freaky, and the kooky elements of the house turn against our heroes in a few action-packed scenes with automaton robots, moving dolls and sinister decorative pumpkins. He’s fresh out of the grave and looks decently startling. The first half of the movie is Lewis first being weirded out by his new surroundings and then seeing them as cool, but things grow much darker when previously deceased evil warlock Isaac Izard (Kyle MacLachlan) shows up. Stine’s “Goosebumps” books: They’re aimed at ages 7-12 as an entryway to horror, and that’s the core crowd for “House” (and perhaps a little younger depending on individual maturity level). ![]() |