John Wray
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Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, he's convinced he can do something about it. Unknown to his doctors, unknown to the police-unknown even to Violet Heller, his devoted mother, Will alone holds the key to the planet's salvation. To cool down the world,...
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Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," author John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to abandon identity and home to become an Islamist militant.
Like many other eighteen-year-olds, Aden Sawyer is intently focused on a goal: escape from her hometown. Her plan will take her far from her mother's claustrophobic house, where the family photos have all been turned to face the wall; far from...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2016.
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English
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Haunted by a failed love affair and a legacy of dark family secrets, Waldemar Waldy Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been exiled from the flow of time. The world continues to turn, and Waldy is desperate to find his way back--a journey that forces him to reckon not only with the betrayal at the heart of his doomed romance but also with the legacy of his great-grandfather's lost discovery of the true nature of time.
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Three luminary teachers unfold a compelling series of dialogues on inner freedom, what it is and how to cultivate it in ourselves and others.
"We are, nearly all of us," says Matthieu Ricard, "the playthings of our whims, our conditioning, our impulses, our inner conflicts, our wandering thoughts, and our afflictive emotions. This servitude of ours is at the root of much that torments us. How do we free ourselves from the prison of these mental mechanisms,...
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A group of young German schoolboys voluntarily enlist in the army at the beginning of World War 1 but after experiencing weeks of brutal training and unimaginable brutality of life on the front, their enthusiasm wanes and any preconceptions about "the enemy" and the "rights and wrongs" of the conflict disappear.