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By Hend Seif El Din
The Road to Character
By David Brooks
In a society that emphasizes success and external achievement, The Road to Character is a book about inner worth. David Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of The Social Animal tells the story of ten great lives that illustrate how character is developed, and how we can all strive to build rich inner lives, marked by humility and moral depth. This is the author’s most eye-opening and deeply personal book yet, where it takes us further, exploring the lives of ten exemplary men and women and describing how they achieved balance, success, and a sense of inner worth.
A Work in Progress
By Connor Franta
Connor Franta shares the lessons he has learned on his journey from small-town boy to Internet sensation, so far, in this intimate memoir.
He gives us an insight at his Midwestern upbringing as one of four children in the home, his struggles with identity, body image, and sexuality in his teen years, and his decision to finally pursue his creative and artistic passions in his early twenties, setting up his thrilling career as a YouTube personality, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and tastemaker.
His words will resound with anyone coming of age in the digital era, but at the core is a timeless message for people of all ages: don’t be afraid to be yourself and to go after what you truly want.
The Longest Ride
By Nicholas Sparks
New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with the remarkable story that like his many previous best sellers turned into a major motion picture starring Scott Eastwood and Britt Robertson.
Ira Levinson, at ninety-one years old is stranded and injured after a car crash, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together.
Meanwhile, a few miles away, is Sophia Danko, while she is attending a bull-riding event, meets a young cowboy named Luke. Through Luke, Sophia is introduced to a world in which the risks of survival and success, ruin and reward; even life and death, approach in everyday life.
As they fall in love, Sophia finds herself imagining a future a lot different from her plans. One that Luke has the power to rewrite, however if the secret he’s keeping doesn’t destroy it first.
Ira and Ruth. Sophia and Luke. Two couples who have little in common, and who are separated by years and experience. Yet their lives will converge with unexpected poignancy, reminding us all that even the most difficult decisions can produce extraordinary journeys.
Dark Places
By Gillian Flynn
From the author that brought you Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn, tells a story about seven-year-old Libby Day, when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice” of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later,
A secret society, called the Killer Club, obsessed with infamous crimes, locates Libby and pumps her for details, in hopes to discover proof that may free Ben.
Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history, where she will reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club for money.
As Libby’s search takes one place to the other, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started—on the run from a killer.
Paper Towns
By John Green
From the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars,
New York Times bestseller and
USA Today bestseller, John Green returns with the trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers.
Dressed like a ninja Margo Roth Spiegelman allures Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night, into plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge, and he follows her.
Margo’s has always been an extravagant planner, and until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q . . . until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they’re for Q.
