David Mitchell
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
"Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . . Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us."
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A vast, intricate novel that weaves six narratives and spans from 1984 to the 2030s about a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes called the Night Shift who try to take them down. An up-all-night story that fluentlymixes the super-natural, sci-fi, horror, social satire, and hearbreaking realism"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Soho, London, 1967. Folk-rock-psychedelic quartet Utopia Avenue is formed. Guitarist Jasper de Zoet, a shy, half-Dutch public-school musical prodigy, was hearing voices long before he dropped acid. Keyboardist Elf Holloway must defy the prejudices of her bank manager father, her housewife mother, and her age to forge her own career. Bassist Dean Moss cannot, will not, spend his life on the factory floor like everyone else in Gravesend. Band manager...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious book that takes history seriously, a British actor and comedian introduces England's earliest kings and queens, who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits, revealing a story of narcissists, inadequate self-control, excessive beheadings, uncivil wars and more.
Author
Language
English
Description
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't. Every nine years, the house's residents -- an odd brother and sister -- extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jacob de Zoet, having arrived in Nagasaki Harbor's Dejima in 1799, has intentions to make a fortune in five years and return home to Holland to win the hand of his finacée, but he meets the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and finds his plans changing and his life in danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor as he grows up in what is for him the sleepiest village in Worcestershire, England, in 1982.
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
16) Monstergami
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
18 "monstrous" origami projects for folders of all experience. This book presents 18 projects to create monsters of all kinds and sizes. The book opens with an introduction (or review, for experienced folders) of the basic folds. The brightly colored monsters are shown step by step with folds displayed clearly on the page, complete with directional arrows. Easy-to-follow text instructions offer extra help.
17) Martial arts
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
An illustrated guide to the history and techniques of a variety of martial arts including judo, tae kwon do, karate, and aikido.
18) It follows
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
For nineteen-year-old Jay, the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet, after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Two carefree bachelors are on a mission to seek out beautiful women while on their Club Med ski vacation. Bobby, a hilarious jokester, and Jackson, a playboy who thinks he can ski worthy of a championship find themselves in real adventures while they also unexpectedly find themselves.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. The film blends Higashida's revelatory insights into autism, written when he was just thirteen, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window for audiences into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe. Moments in...