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The war of the worlds / by Wells, H. G.(Herbert George),1866-1946,author.;
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Classics; Literary; Human-alien encounters; Imaginary wars and battles;

Two of the deadliest [sound recording (CD)] / by George, Elizabeth,1949-;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Avarice; Crime; Lust; Noir fiction, American.; Short stories.;
© p2009., Harper Audio,

Lucky Seed A Novel [electronic resource] : by Huang, Justinian.aut; CloudLibrary;
Succession meets Crazy Rich Asians in this chaotic, darkly funny romp about the lengths a wealthy family will take to ensure the birth of a male heir from the gay black sheep of their clan. An intergenerational family saga inspired by the author's own fatherhood journey as his real-life family's mandatory suggestion. The billionaire Sun Clan of Greater Los Angeles is your typical American family, with power-struggling aunties, emasculated uncles, scheming cousins, scandalous secrets and a fortune teller on retainer. But at the end of each combative day, the Suns are chained together with golden handcuffs, whether they like it or not. Yet strange storms are a-brewing. Their matriarch, Roses Sun, is grappling with an existential crisis: she must produce a male heir that bears the clan's surname. She fears that if her generation is the one in which their esteemed lineage ends, they will be punished as "hungry ghosts" in the afterlife—an ancient but very real Asian superstition. Faced with this terrifying fate, Roses summons her favorite nephew, Wayward. Believing him to possess the "lucky seed," Roses presents Wayward with a mandatory suggestion: to father a baby boy who will inherit everything. When the other members of the Sun Clan catch wind of Roses's plot, all hells break loose. Wayward's family will now clash like never before in an epic war over the future of the Suns…if there is a future at all. Yet through the chaos, Wayward sees opportunity. What if he can leverage all the conflict into a solution for his problematic family? What if he can reunite the Sun Clan by healing them? And what if the tumultuous Suns can finally learn how to love each other for the first time?General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Romantic Comedy; Asian American; Family Life; Humorous;
© 2025., MIRA Books,

The Swiss family Robinson / by Wyss, Johann David,1743-1818.;
LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Classics; Literary; Shipwreck survival; Survival skills; Islands; Families;
© [2004], Signet Classics,

For whom the bell tolls / by Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961,author.; Hemingway, Seán A.,editor,writer of introduction.;
Includes bibliographical references.In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.
Subjects: War fiction.; Classics; Literary; Americans;

Kittentits A Novel [electronic resource] : by Wilson, Holly.aut; cloudLibrary;
“Molly is one of the greatest young female characters I’ve had the luck of reading since I picked up Joy Williams’s The Quick and the Dead back in 2000 . . . I TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!” —Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books “Holly Wilson’s Kittentits is sacred and profane, filled with big emotions, all amplified by grief. Molly is a wholly unique and charismatic narrator, navigating (and creating) chaos as she seeks out a way to hold onto both the living and dead. This is a wildly funny and utterly convincing coming-of-age novel like nothing I’ve read before.” —Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searching for friendship and ghosts. It’s 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and their grieving housemate Evelyn. But when twenty-three-year-old Jeanie, a dirt bike–riding ex-con with a shady past, moves in, she quickly becomes the object of Molly’s adoration. She might treat Molly terribly, but they both have dead moms and potty mouths, so naturally Molly is the moth to Jeanie’s scuzzy flame. When Jeanie fakes her own death in a hot-air balloon accident, Molly runs away to Chicago with just a stolen credit card and a sweet pair of LA Gear Heatwaves to meet her pen pal Demarcus and hunt down Jeanie. What follows is a race to New Year’s Eve, as Molly and Demarcus plan a séance to reunite with their lost moms in front of a live audience at the World’s Fair. A surrealist and bold take on the American coming-of-age novel, Holly Wilson’s debut is about the interstices of loss, grief, and friendship.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Magical Realism; Coming of Age; Ghost; Family Life;
© 2024., Zando,

The Award : A Novel. by Pearl, Matthew.;
Matthew Pearl makes his return to fiction with 'The Award', a novel about a young writer trying to make his way through a cutthroat literary scene that turns deadly. From the author of 'The Dante Chamber'. Goodreads Marketing Campaign.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Humorous / Dark Humor; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Satire; FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological;

Book of Lives [text (large print)] : A Memoir of Sorts. by Atwood, Margaret.;
Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs;

Book of Lives [sound recording] : A Memoir of Sorts. by Atwood, Margaret.;
Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Audiobooks.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs;

Fourteen days : a literary project of the Authors Guild of America / by Atwood, Margaret,1939-author,editor.; Preston, Douglas J.,author,editor.;
A novel written by more than twenty-five major literary voices follows the tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan during the COVID-19 shutdown, as they gather on the roof, share stories, and become real neighbors.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Apartments; COVID-19 (Disease); Neighborhoods;

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