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Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep, and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
Author
Language
English
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"Shortlisted for the 2017 Cundill History Prize, McGill University" "Shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award" "strategy+business Best Business Book of 2017 in Economics" "One of The New York Times Deal Book "Business Books Worth Reading" 2017 (chosen by Andrew Sorkin)" "One of The Wall Street Journal's What Business Leaders Read in 2017" "Selected for The HCSS Bookshelf (chosen by Stephan De Spiegeleire)...
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