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Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.

Humans call them Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues scattered on distant planets throughout the galaxy, encoded with strange inscriptions that defy translation. Searching for clues about the Monument-Makers, teams of 23rd century linguists, historians, engineers and archaeologists have been excavating the enigmatic alien ruins on a number of planets, uncovering strange, massive false cities made of solid rock. But their time is running out.

The Star Rover is a 1914 collection of science fiction short stories with the theme of reincarnation. It tells the story of Darrell Standing, an inmate of San Quentin’s death row. The narrator escapes the horror of prison life by withdrawing into altered states and the memory of past lives. Forming the body of the work, the accounts of these past lives are vivid but disconnected. They include a desert island survival story, one which involves a Roman perspective on Christ, a tale of medieval Korea, and one which takes place in a prehistoric era.

Driven by money, power and success, Gabriel has worked ruthlessly to get to the very top of the banking game. He's not going to let the inconvenience of a terminal brain tumour get in his way. But the tumour has other ideas. As it grows, it appears to be doing strange things to Gabriel's personality. Whether he likes it or not, he seems to be becoming less selfish, less mercenary, less unlikeable. Once he could dismiss the rest of humanity as irrelevant. Now he's not so sure.

In this novel we meet Alison Wheaton and Charlie Dunn, a couple who are very much in love. Alison has survived cancer, but only just. The couple are taking an extended sabbatical in a small Icelandic town. The couple is finding their way back normality; that is until Alison starts to suspect that something is not quite right. What begins as a romance slides into an odd, dreamlike surrealist fantasy. Meanwhile, back in Coventry young Jessica Kirkpatrick has finally plucked up the courage to leave her abusive boyfriend.

Robotics student Brad Barkley has created the perfect woman. The only problem is she's an android, and her creator realizes too late he may have made her too perfect. After Brad's ultimate failure with women nearly consumes him, he discovers Tricia, his android, may be able to rescue him from a life of loneliness, if he and the human race are willing to pay the price.

Join Jack on his inspirational journey through the forests and meadows as he learns to listen to his inner voice and transforms into his dream.

A deafening explosion. A shining metal disc crashed into a cornfield. A mysterious little girl with a cryptic mission. Longing to be like the heroes in his storybooks, Robbie Flynn embarks on a quest he hopes will lead him to his missing father. But nothing is as it seems. As the moments of this mythic journey divide and intertwine, Robbie is faced with an extraordinary realization: not all paths always lead ahead.

Nicholas rose to power from the gritty backstreets of Buenos Aires. He controlled everything around him. But the universe had something completely different in mind for Nicholas. Something shattering. Where the Green Star Falls is a visceral tale of survival with the soul of a love story. From the Parisian mecca of South America, Buenos Aires, you'll be transported to the mysterious river-lands of Argentina amid the towering Andes Mountains and emerald green waters, where Nicholas will meet his fate head on. He must become the man he was born to be.

When Maputa is caught in a fishing net off the coast of the Comoros, neither she nor the fishermen believe she will survive. But rather than meeting the Spirit-fish, the ancient coelacanth finds herself on display as a living fossil at SeaTopia on the Florida coast. There she joins a motley crew of captive sea creatures and the man-tide who both confine and care for them - including Samantha, a neglected teen who finds purpose at the aquarium.

By universal consensus, there’s only one exhibition worth seeing at this year’s Venice Biennale. Giuditta Cancellieri’s Il Timore di Dio, six paintings of something as yet undisclosed. Don’t bother buying tickets, though. A court order means no one’s getting in, not even the artist’s closest associates. The city’s been filling with felons. Most observers don’t think that’s an accident. At least one rumor suggests the paintings depict Italy’s most powerful gangsters, or its politicians, in compromising positions.

Embarking on an expedition to help solve a riddle found as a message in a bottle, Kole and a few others venture out to sea in a ship that’s only spoken of in ghost tales. Kole struggles to allow himself to be vulnerable. He finds himself stuck between a rock and a hard place. His love interest being the rock and his messed up past keeping him from opening up, the hard place.

Listening to this book is like going into a trippy play where animals talk and there are bizarre characters. It is a mind-bending listen with interesting characters and story plot. Believe it or not, it does have a lesson to the story: We all wear masks to hide our true selves.

Torn between right and wrong, justice and peace, honesty and immorality, Adi struggles to embrace herself and the world around her, hoping others can do the same. Does the war she chooses to fight end in victory or total defeat? In the midst of all the mayhem will either guy ultimately win Adi’s heart, or has too much damage been done to end up with either one of them? She soon finds out there is no action too horrible or too grand when pursing the one you love or are fighting your enemies.