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Julian Barnes
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
by Knopf (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-02)
Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction.If the fear of death is “the most rational thing in the world,” how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty, an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for and against and with God, and at the bloodline whose archivist, following his parents’ death, he has become—another realm of mystery, wherein a drawer of mementos and his own memories (not to mention those of his philosopher brother) often fail to connect. There are other ancestors, too: the writers—“most of them dead, and quite a few of them French”—who are his daily companions, supplemented by composers and theologians and scientists whose similar explorations are woven ...
David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
by Back Bay Books (Paperback)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
by Scribner (Paperback)
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
by Back Bay Books (Paperback)
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Dial Press Trade Paperback (Paperback) (Release Date: 1999-01-12)
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
by Fawcett (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1985-01-12)
Anita Shreve
Testimony: A Novel
by Little, Brown and Company (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-10-21)
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve delivers in TESTIMONY a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellinglyexplores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and women into intolerable dilemmas, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.
C. S. Lewis, Michael York
Mere Christianity
by Thomas Nelson (Audio Cassette)
This 20th century masterpiece of Christian apologetics, read by acclaimed actor Michael York, is one of C.S. Lewis' best-loved works. In this audio edition of Mere Christianity, believers and non-believers are provided an unequaled opportunity to hear a powerful and rational case for the Christian faith.
Nicholas Sparks
The Choice
by Grand Central Publishing (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-08-19)
#1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we'll never have to make. Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life - boating, swimming , and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies -- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and family, THE CHOICE ultimately confronts us with the most heartwrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
E. L. Konigsburg, William Shakespeare
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by Atheneum Books (Paperback)