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City of Thieves is a 2008 historical fiction novel by David Benioff.It is, in part, a coming of age story set in the World War II siege of Leningrad.It follows the adventures of two youths as they desperately search for a dozen eggs at the behest of a Soviet NKVD officer, a task that takes them far behind enemy lines.
11. The Fire Game. 0-671-72481-9. Gabe, a teenager new to Shadyside, goads the other neighbourhood kids into proving their courage by starting fires. 12. Lights Out. 0-671-72482-7. While working at Camp Nightwing, junior counselor Holly Flynn finds her fellow counselors being murdered. 13.
Stay True is a 2022 memoir by Hua Hsu, published by Anchor Books and Doubleday, both imprints of Penguin Random House. The memoir depicts Hsu's unlikely relationship with a college friend named Ken, a friendship that was unexpectedly and tragically cut short when Ken was killed in a carjacking in 1998. The book received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize ...
ISBN. 0517548232. OCLC. 167574. Economics in One Lesson is an introduction to economics written by Henry Hazlitt and first published in 1946. It is based on Frédéric Bastiat 's essay Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas (English: "What is Seen and What is Not Seen"). [ 1]
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century is a 2017 book by Timothy Snyder, a historian of 20th-century Europe. The book was published by Tim Duggan Books in hardcover and by Penguin Random House in paperback. [ 1] A graphic version, illustrated by Nora Krug, was released October 5, 2021. [ 2]
Magick (Book 4) Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4 is a book by 20th-century occultist Aleister Crowley. It is widely considered to be his magnum opus. [citation needed] Magick is a lengthy treatise on ceremonial magic (which he anachronistically refers to as 'magick'), synthesised from many sources including yoga, Hermeticism, medieval grimoires ...
The book received generally positive reviews. Publishers Weekly reviewed the book as having "queer primary characters, an irresistible gothic atmosphere, and unrelenting creeping dread." Alex Brown of Tor.com stated that the book was "a good introduction for horror and gothic newbies and a twisty and twisted diversion for the well-versed."
See You in the Cosmos is a 2017 epistolary Bildungsroman novel by Chinese-American author Jack Cheng. It is his second book, and his first for children.Written as transcription, the story follows astronomy-loving pre-teen Alex Petroski as he embarks on a journey to understand the life of his late father and records the journey in notes on his iPod to launch into space.