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The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
A suspicious man, covered in long, dark clothes over his whole body, with bandages on his face and a large hat over his head shows up in the town of Iping. His hostess’ first impression is that he had an accident or is scarred, but soon she loses any sympathy for him, when he keeps treating her rudely, while continuing strange experiments in his room, and soon she’s only keeping him fo...
Me before You, Jojo Moyes
After losing her job in a café, due to many financial problems in her family, Lou Clark doesn’t have any choice but to accept a job as a caretaker for Will Traynor, a very rude quadriplegic. The more time she spends with him, the more she understands how much influence he has on her, and how much he changes her view of life. Not only did this book give me some good insight into a quadriplegi...
The Future of Us, Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
In 1996, a long time before Facebook, Emma installs Internet on her brand new computer for the first time. Right after making herself an email address, she finds herself staring at her Facebook page from 15 years in the future. Her childhood friend Josh, with whom she hasn’t really talked with for six months, and her get closer again and start changing their futures and watch them change. Pe...
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
George and Lennie travel together from ranch to ranch, getting kicked out every time because of Lennie’s stupid and innocent mistakes, gathering money to get closer to accomplishing their dreams. As soon as they can, they’re going to have their own land, with cows, alfalfa plants, and a whole lot of bunnies. If I had one word to describe this book, I’d use the word “depress...
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
This is the story of a seagull. All the other seagulls of the flock are centered on food. They use their wings to fly the short distances to find fish. Jonathan Seagull is different. He loves to fly. Instead of food, his purpose in life is flying; higher, lower, quicker, slower, better and easier. But as he spends his whole days practicing, he is rejected by his flock and then finally banished as ...
The Ladies of Missalonghi, Colleen McCullough
The three ladies of Missalonghi, Missy, her mom and her aunt, have always lived very poorly, having just enough to survive, cast away and suppressed by their rich family. 30-year-old Missy still knows nothing of the world, except what she read in books, and dreams of one day getting out of this town called Byron. One day a stranger turns up, and has bought Missy’s favorite valley. That’...
12 years a slave, Solomon Northup
After living many peaceful years with his family in the free north state of New York as a free black man, having several children and a loving wife, Solomon Northup was misled and then kidnapped by two men, pretending to want him for his excellent skills on the violin, and woke to his new life as a slave, in a cell and in chains. As early as his first day he already nearly got his life beaten out ...