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11. Rin Tin Tin by Susan Orlean
12. The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
13. Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
14. The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
15. Bossypants by Tina Fey
16. This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park
17. The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
18. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
19. Life Itself by Roger Ebert
20. When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern by a long shot!!!! I’m giving everyone I know a copy for Christmas!
The Craving and the Cross
The Craving and the Cross is a powerful and visionary novel created for the enlightened thinker. The villain is a depraved CEO who is driven by greed and lust. He is a Media mogul, the owner of Wolf News and several other businesses. He corrupts the values of his listeners, knowing their ignorance is good for business. He has a religious devotion to capital and a strange perversion for blood. He lives life lavishly. The CEO is a modern day monarch whose life has become diversion, perversion and excess. Beautiful and exotic women submit to his strange desires and men of wealth and power fear him. He appears to have it all but he hungers for more. He is aging and cannot accept the ultimate loss of his youth and his riches. He becomes obsessed with immortality and convinced that he is a Vampire. He uses his resources and wealth to find an ancient Wiseman. He tells the CEO the secret of eternal youth. It involves our hero.
Joe is a homeless man who many think of as a saint, and others think insane. He lives in an alley and eats out of garbage cans. He hears voices that compel him. His journey begins when the One Great Voice sends him on a mission to conquer evil and stop the bleeding. He is not sure what he must do until a brave and miraculous act and a media hungry for ratings propel Joe into the spotlight. His virtue and values inspire millions. He asks people to care for the poor and the sick, abandon intolerance, love justice and question authority. He inspires us to look inward for happiness and reject mindless consumption. Americans trust him and they see him as authentic.
The CEO despises Joe’s liberal message; it is bad for business. He is also convinced that Joe holds the key to his immortality. He resolves to discredit him, capture him and hold him hostage until he gets what he wants. Joe’s exotic entourage of followers protect him from harm while sharing with him their bizarre and heartwarming stories. Joe and his nemesis take us on a spellbinding adventure as they battle for the hearts and minds of America.
Do Clones have Souls?
Do Clones Have Souls is a book that is as intriguing as it’s title. It is a thinking man’s novel that challenges our values and stimulates our imagination. It explores our ideas on race, culture and religion through the eyes of Clones, Americas newest group.
Religious conservatives declare them inhuman, an abomination. The Supreme Court rules that they are unnaturally born and have no rights. The government needs them to fight in three wars and corporations want to use them for free labor. The media exploits them, preferring ratings to truth. They have no allies and rely on their own resistance fighters.
The central character Clint is a Clone who was bred by the Defense Department to kill our nation’s adversaries. He is the Uberman. A Clone who has been a successful assassin, our nations’ best.. He has never known the fear and suffering of the average Clone and did not care about their plight. But he tires of the killings and wants to quit. The government will not allow it and he is forced to flee for his life.
He is in constant danger, outwitting powerful and amoral men. These men are responsible for the nation’s failing economy. They keep Americans afraid and divided, stripping us our rights and our wealth. Their pursuit of Clint is unrelenting.
It is while fleeing from them that he begins to seek the truth about himself. He is gradually drawn to ideas and people that change his thinking. He ponders the meaning of his existence, of love and the afterlife.
Sadly, his inward journey is halted when he is captured. He is given an ultimatum. He must kill again or lose the only woman he has ever loved. It is she who brings him to the resistance fighters and to a fateful day which will determine the destiny of our nation.
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