Mage Quest
9 best books like Mage Quest (C. Dale Brittain): Scoop, Einstein's Dreams, A House for Mr Biswas, 1919, Goodbye to All That, The Big Money, The Thread That Binds the Bones, Saker min son behöver veta om världen, No One Noticed the Cat
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0141187492 |
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith,...
A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In...
| Author | V.S. Naipaul |
| ISBN | 0330487191 |
This one might make you pull your hair out. So if you're already bald you may need to read it wearing a wig. Also, you need a magnifying glass to find the plot. I had to take samples & send them off to a lab. Apparently there are detectable traces of story in here. But not so's you'd notice.
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| Author | John Dos Passos |
| ISBN | 0618056823 |
With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope, but also for its groundbreaking style. Again, employing a host of experimental...
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
In 1929 Robert Graves went...
| Author | John Dos Passos |
| ISBN | 0618056831 |
THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find...
| Author | Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0380772531 |
Tom Renfield, janitor-cum-taxi driver, has always had some weird abilities - seeing ghosts, perceiving other 'currents' of energy... but he's always tried to ignore them. Running from himself seems to be a large part of how he ended up in the tiny town of Arcadia. However, when he picks up a beautiful...
Saker min son behöver veta om världen
| Author | Fredrik Backman |
| ISBN | 9137138669 |
English title: "Things my son needs to know about the world".
"Till min son. Jag ber om din förlåtelse redan nu. För alla gånger jag kommer skämma ut dig. För charterresorna. Cowboyhatten. 'Riktiga män väger över 90 kilo'-t-shirten. För att jag gör min pappa-hade-rätt-och-mamma-hade-fel-dans...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0843959037 |
The key to appreciating this book is to imagine it is a bedtime story someone is making up on the fly for a child. By those standards, it is an excellent story. It was in the adult sci fi section at the library, but its length (124 half-size pages) and content would be perfectly suitable for any child with a...
