Matt's bookshelf: scribd en-US Mon, 09 Dec 2024 07:10:56 -0800 60 Matt's bookshelf: scribd 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Size: How It Explains the World]]> 63076716 The latest masterwork of “an ambitious and astonishing polymath who swings for fences� ( Wired)   Size is a mind-bending journey that turns the modern world on its head. ]]> 304 Vaclav Smil 0063324091 Matt 3 2024-read, scribd 3.18 2023 Size: How It Explains the World
author: Vaclav Smil
name: Matt
average rating: 3.18
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/09
date added: 2024/12/09
shelves: 2024-read, scribd
review:

]]> Dear Evan Hansen 34931840
*This publication includes the book and lyrics to the musical, as well as a foreword by James Lapine. It does not include the musical score.*]]> 144 Steven Levenson 1559368802 Matt 5 2021-read, scribd 4.34 2017 Dear Evan Hansen
author: Steven Levenson
name: Matt
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2021/06/26
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
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]]> Earth Abides 53244263 ]]> 370 George R. Stewart Matt 5 scribd, 2023-read 4.10 1949 Earth Abides
author: George R. Stewart
name: Matt
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1949
rating: 5
read at: 2023/07/05
date added: 2023/07/06
shelves: scribd, 2023-read
review:

]]> A Man Called Ove 18774964
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?

Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.]]> 337 Fredrik Backman 1476738017 Matt 4 scribd, 2023-read 4.35 2012 A Man Called Ove
author: Fredrik Backman
name: Matt
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2023/03/31
date added: 2023/03/31
shelves: scribd, 2023-read
review:

]]> Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1) 28954189 Thou shalt kill.

A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.

Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art� of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.

An alternate cover edition of ISBN: 9781442472426]]> 435 Neal Shusterman Matt 4 2022-read, scribd 4.32 2016 Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
author: Neal Shusterman
name: Matt
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2022/11/08
date added: 2022/11/08
shelves: 2022-read, scribd
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Lost in the Yellowstone: Truman Everts's "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril"]]> 1197636
The incredible true adventure of the only person known to have survived so long while lost in Yellowstone wilderness.

When Truman Evert visited the Yellowstone area in 1870, the Yellowstone belonged to myth. Scattered reports of a mostly unexplored wilderness filled with natural wonders caught the public’s—and Evert’s—attention. Although fifty-four, nearsighted, and an inexperienced woodsman, he joined the expedition determined to map and investigate the mysterious Yellowstone.

Separated from his party, and then abandoned by his horse, Evert embarked on one of the most grueling survival adventures recorded on the American frontier. For thirty-seven days he wandered Yellowstone alone, injured, and without food save that which he could scrape from an unfriendly land.

Truman Evert’s story manifests the qualities we associate with the great explorers: endurance, determination, inventiveness, and courage in the face of unendurable hardship. Lost in the Yellowstone is an inspiration, and a testament to one man’s will to survive.]]> 86 Truman Everts 0874804817 Matt 5 2022-read, scribd 3.75 2002 Lost in the Yellowstone: Truman Everts's "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril"
author: Truman Everts
name: Matt
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at: 2022/09/22
date added: 2022/10/28
shelves: 2022-read, scribd
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]]> Rendezvous With Rama 774928 Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke's best novels--it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards. A huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called Rama, disappears. The astronauts given the task of exploring the hollow cylindrical ship are able to decipher some, but definitely not all, of the extraterrestrial vehicle's puzzles. From the ubiquitous trilateral symmetry of its structures to its cylindrical sea and machine-island, Rama's secrets are strange evidence of an advanced civilization. But who, and where, are the Ramans, and what do they want with humans? Perhaps the answer lies with the busily working biots, or the sealed-off buildings, or the inaccessible "southern" half of the enormous cylinder. Rama's unsolved mysteries are tantalizing indeed. Rendezvous with Rama is fast moving, fascinating, and a must-read for science fiction fans. Clarke collaborated with Gentry Lee in writing several Rama sequels, beginning with Rama II.]]> 245 Arthur C. Clarke 0553287893 Matt 4 2022-read, scribd 4.03 1973 Rendezvous With Rama
author: Arthur C. Clarke
name: Matt
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1973
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/29
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2022-read, scribd
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]]> The Alchemist 865 197 Paulo Coelho 0061122416 Matt 5 scribd 3.85 1988 The Alchemist
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Matt
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1988
rating: 5
read at: 2017/04/15
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: scribd
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)]]> 33574273 It was a dark and stormy night.

Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.

Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet.]]> 218 Madeleine L'Engle 1250153271 Matt 5 2021-read, scribd 3.91 1962 A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
author: Madeleine L'Engle
name: Matt
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1962
rating: 5
read at: 2021/03/17
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Bounty (Fox and O'Hare, #7)]]> 54303948 FBI agent Kate O’Hare and charming con man Nick Fox race against time to uncover a buried train filled with Nazi gold.

Straight as an arrow special agent Kate O’Hare and international con man Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest criminals out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet—a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood.

Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold, untouched for over seventy-five years somewhere in the mountains of Eastern Europe.

Kate and Nick know that there is only one man who can find the fortune and bring down the Brotherhood—the same man who taught Nick everything he knows—his father, Quentin. As the stakes get higher, they must also rely on Kate’s own father, Jake, who shares his daughter’s grit and stubbornness. Too bad they can never agree on anything.

From a remote monastery in the Swiss Alps to the lawless desert of the Western Sahara, Kate, Nick, and the two men who made them who they are today must crisscross the world in a desperate scramble to stop their deadliest foe in the biggest adventure of their lives.]]> 320 Janet Evanovich 1982157135 Matt 4 2021-read, scribd 3.80 2021 The Bounty (Fox and O'Hare, #7)
author: Janet Evanovich
name: Matt
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2021/05/02
date added: 2022/07/29
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]]> News of the World 25817493 Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.

In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.

In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.

Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.� Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.

Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.

]]> 209 Paulette Jiles 0062409204 Matt 5 2021-read, scribd 4.02 2016 News of the World
author: Paulette Jiles
name: Matt
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2021/05/26
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
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]]> <![CDATA[A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, #2)]]> 18130 Every time a star goes out, another Echthros has won a battle.

Just before Meg Murry's little brother, Charles Wallace, falls deathly ill, he sees dragons in the vegetable garden. The dragons turn out to be Proginoskes, a cherubim composed out wings and eyes, wind and flame. It is up to Meg and Proginoskes, along with Meg's friend Calvin, to save Charles Wallace's life. To do so, they must travel deep within Charles Wallace to attempt to defeat the Echthroi—those who hate—and restore brilliant harmony and joy to the rhythm of creation, the song of the universe.]]> 236 Madeleine L'Engle 0440487617 Matt 4 2021-read, scribd 4.00 1973 A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, #2)
author: Madeleine L'Engle
name: Matt
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1973
rating: 4
read at: 2021/06/25
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Adventures in the Solar System: Planetron and Me]]> 20020993 64 Geoffrey T. Williams 0977138143 Matt 5 2021-read, scribd 5.00 1986 Adventures in the Solar System: Planetron and Me
author: Geoffrey T. Williams
name: Matt
average rating: 5.00
book published: 1986
rating: 5
read at: 2021/06/30
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
review:

]]> The Big Trip Up Yonder 11161887 22 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1606645005 Matt 4 2021-read, scribd 3.57 1954 The Big Trip Up Yonder
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
name: Matt
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1954
rating: 4
read at: 2021/07/03
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes]]> 53121652
Hurricanes menace North America from June through November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the planet continues to warm, yet we too often treat them as local disasters and TV spectacles, unaware of how far-ranging their impact can be. As best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin contends, we must look to our nation’s past if we hope to comprehend the consequences of the hurricanes of the future.

With A Furious Sky, Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus’s New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes, such as Benito Vines, a nineteenth-century Jesuit priest whose innovative methods for predicting hurricanes saved countless lives, and puts us in the middle of the most devastating storms of the past, none worse than the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed at least 6,000 people, the highest toll of any natural disaster in American history.

Dolin draws on a vast array of sources as he melds American history, as it is usually told, with the history of hurricanes, showing how these tempests frequently helped determine the nation’s course. Hurricanes, it turns out, prevented Spain from expanding its holdings in North America beyond Florida in the late 1500s, and they also played a key role in shifting the tide of the American Revolution against the British in the final stages of the conflict. As he moves through the centuries, following the rise of the United States despite the chaos caused by hurricanes, Dolin traces the corresponding development of hurricane science, from important discoveries made by Benjamin Franklin to the breakthroughs spurred by the necessities of the World War II and the Cold War.

Yet after centuries of study and despite remarkable leaps in scientific knowledge and technological prowess, there are still limits on our ability to predict exactly when and where hurricanes will strike, and we remain terribly vulnerable to the greatest storms on earth. A Furious Sky is, ultimately, a story of a changing climate, and it forces us to reckon with the reality that as bad as the past has been, the future will probably be worse, unless we drastically reimagine our relationship with the planet.

103 black-and-white illustrations; 8 pages of color illustrations]]> 432 Eric Jay Dolin 1631495275 Matt 4 2021-read, scribd 4.07 2020 A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
author: Eric Jay Dolin
name: Matt
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2021/09/18
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
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]]> Here 7929177 Here was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, “How is it that she keeps getting better?� These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak, are among her greatest work. Whether writing about her teenage self, microscopic creatures, or the upsides to living on Earth, she remains a virtuoso of form, line, and thought.

From the title poem:

I can’t speak for elsewhere,
but here on Earth we’ve got a fair supply of everything.
Here we manufacture chairs and sorrows,
scissors, tenderness, transistors, violins, teacups, dams, and quips . . .

Like nowhere else, or almost nowhere,
you’re given your own torso here,
equipped with the accessories required
for adding your own children to the rest.
Not to mention arms, legs, and astonished head.








]]> 96 Wisława Szymborska 054736461X Matt 5 2021-read, scribd 4.25 2009 Here
author: Wisława Szymborska
name: Matt
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2021/07/12
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers]]> 44024316 The story of the people who see beyond the stars

Humans from the earliest civilizations were spellbound by the night sky-craning their necks each night, they used the stars to orient themselves in the large, strange world around them. Stargazing is a pursuit that continues to fascinate us: from Copernicus to Carl Sagan, astronomers throughout history have spent their lives trying to answer the biggest questions in the universe. Now, award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque shares the stories of modern-day stargazers, the people willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to some of the most remote corners of the planet, all in the name of science.

From the lonely quiet of midnight stargazing to tall tales of wild bears loose in the observatory, The Last Stargazers is a love letter to astronomy and an affirmation of the crucial role that humans can and must play in the future of scientific discovery.

In this sweeping work of narrative science, Levesque shows how astronomers in this scrappy and evolving field are going beyond the machines to infuse creativity and passion into the stars and inspires us all to peer skyward in pursuit of the universe's secrets.]]> 316 Emily M. Levesque Matt 4 2021-read, scribd 4.11 2020 The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
author: Emily M. Levesque
name: Matt
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2021/07/25
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
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]]> The Institute 43798285
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King's gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good versus evil in a world where the good guys don't always win.
--front flap]]> 561 Stephen King Matt 5 2020-read, scribd 4.17 2019 The Institute
author: Stephen King
name: Matt
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2020/04/06
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2020-read, scribd
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric]]> 50086786 How could General Electric—perhaps America’s most iconic corporation—suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace?

This is the definitive history of General Electric’s epic decline, as told by the two Wall Street Journal reporters who covered its fall.

Since its founding in 1892, GE has been more than just a corporation. For generations, it was job security, a solidly safe investment, and an elite business education for top managers.

GE electrified America, powering everything from lightbulbs to turbines, and became fully integrated into the American societal mindset as few companies ever had. And after two decades of leadership under legendary CEO Jack Welch, GE entered the twenty-first century as America’s most valuable corporation. Yet, fewer than two decades later, the GE of old was gone.

​Lights Out examines how Welch’s handpicked successor, Jeff Immelt, tried to fix flaws in Welch’s profit machine, while stumbling headlong into mistakes of his own. In the end, GE’s traditional win-at-all-costs driven culture seemed to lose its direction, which ultimately caused the company’s decline on both a personal and organizational scale. ​Lights Out details how one of America’s all-time great companies has been reduced to a cautionary tale for our times.]]> 368 Thomas Gryta 0358250412 Matt 4 2021-read, scribd 3.84 2020 Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric
author: Thomas Gryta
name: Matt
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2021/10/08
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
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]]> The Leavers 30753987
With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an “all-American boy.� But far away from all he’s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his new life with his mother’s disappearance and the memories of the family and community he left behind.

Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging. It’s the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he’s loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past.

This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.]]> 396 Lisa Ko 1616206888 Matt 4 2021-read, scribd 3.85 2017 The Leavers
author: Lisa Ko
name: Matt
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2021/10/21
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
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]]> <![CDATA[Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly]]> 33313 A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring new photo inserts

Over two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,� by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one’s appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now iconic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation and megabestseller. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business.

Fans will love to return to this deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade, laying out Bourdain’s more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine. Including a handwritten introduction and annotations done by Bourdain about a decade after the book was originally published, this edition also features previously unpublished photos to accompany the now-classic text.]]> 312 Anthony Bourdain 0060899220 Matt 4 2021-read, scribd 4.17 2000 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
author: Anthony Bourdain
name: Matt
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 2021/12/26
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2021-read, scribd
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre]]> 58042347 A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.

In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District—a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives.

In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today?

These are the questions that award-winning author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this unflinching nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. In examining the tension that was brought to a boil by many factors—white resentment of Black economic and political advancement, the resurgence of white supremacist groups, the tone and perspective of the media, and more—a portrait is drawn of an event singular in its devastation, but not in its kind. It is part of a legacy of white violence that can be traced from our country's earliest days through Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement in the mid–twentieth century, and the fight for justice and accountability Black Americans still face today.

The Tulsa Race Massacre has long failed to fit into the story Americans like to tell themselves about the history of their country. This book, ambitious and intimate in turn, explores the ways in which the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the story of America—and by showing us who we are, points to a way forward.

YALSA Honor Award for Excellence in Nonfiction]]> 224 Brandy Colbert Matt 4 2022-read, scribd 4.35 2021 Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
author: Brandy Colbert
name: Matt
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/27
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2022-read, scribd
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]]> <![CDATA[Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)]]> 25350 160 C.S. Lewis 0007157150 Matt 3 2022-read, scribd 3.93 1938 Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Matt
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1938
rating: 3
read at: 2022/03/03
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2022-read, scribd
review:

]]> The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Matt 4 2022-read, scribd 3.81 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Matt
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1952
rating: 4
read at: 2022/05/01
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2022-read, scribd
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]]> Stardust 16793 Alternate cover edition can be found here

Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.]]> 248 Neil Gaiman 0061142026 Matt 5 2022-read, scribd 4.10 1999 Stardust
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Matt
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 2022/05/21
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2022-read, scribd
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]]> Aurora 58984660 Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of Under the Dome or Project Hail Mary, in which a worldwide cataclysm plays out in the lives of one complicated Midwestern family.

In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son.

Then the lights go out--not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood.

Across the country lives Aubrey's estranged brother, Thom. A fantastically wealthy, neurotically over-prepared Silicon Valley CEO, he plans to ride out the crisis in a gilded desert bunker he built for maximum comfort and security.

But the complicated history between the siblings is far from over, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of several long-overdue reckonings--which not everyone will survive . . .

Aurora is suspenseful storytelling--both large scale and small--at its finest.]]> 289 David Koepp 0062916475 Matt 4 2022-read, scribd 3.71 2022 Aurora
author: David Koepp
name: Matt
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2022/07/29
date added: 2022/07/29
shelves: 2022-read, scribd
review:

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