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Now You Access The FriendMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion. .Book Details :Author : Sigrid Nunez

Now You Access The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a ?man of two minds,? a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship. .Book Details :Author : Viet Thanh Nguyen

Now You Access The Girl on the TrainMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She?s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ?Jess and Jason,? she calls them. Their life?as she sees it?is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It?s only a minute until the train moves on, but it?s enough. Now everything?s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she?s only watched from afar. Now they?ll see; she?s much more than just the girl on the train...An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. .Book Details :Author : Paula Hawkins

Now You Access Alexander HamiltonMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :An alternate cover edition can be found here.In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is ?a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.? Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow?s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today?s America is the result of Hamilton?s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. ?To repudiate his legacy,? Chernow writes, ?is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.? Chernow here recounts Hamilton?s turbulent life: an .Book Details :Author : Ron Chernow

Now You Access Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the UniverseMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with the universe like never before.Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn?s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what?s the last thing you?d see before getting spaghettified? While traveling in person to most of these amazing worlds may not be possible?yet?the would-be space traveler need not despair: you can still take the scenic route through the galaxy with renowned astronomer and science communicator Philip Plait.On this lively, immersive adventure through the cosmos, Plait draws ingeniously on both the latest scientific research and his prodigious imagination to transport you to ten of the most spectacular sights outer space has to offer. In vivid, inventive scenes informed by rigorous science?injected with a dose of Plait?s trademark humor?Under Alien Skies places you on the surface of .Book Details :Author : Philip Plait

Now You Access The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found herePercy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends?one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods. .Book Details :Author : Rick Riordan

Now You Access Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him...In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. .Book Details :Author : J.K. Rowling

Now You Access HomegoingMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :An alternate cover edition can be found here.A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and .Book Details :Author : Yaa Gyasi

Now You Access The Long Game (Long Game, #1)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :13 hours, 30 minutes A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children?s team in this smalltown love story in the vein of Ted Lasso and It Happened One Summer ?from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception.Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat.But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team?s mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team?s owner?who happens to be her father?sends Adalyn to middle-of-nowhere North Carolina, where she?s tasked with turning around the struggling local soccer team, the Green Warriors, as a way to redeem herself. Her plans crumble upon discovering that the players wear tutus to practice (impractical), keep pet goats (messy), and are terrified of Adalyn (counterproductive), and are nine-year-old kids.To make things .Book Details :Author : Elena Armas