Successfully Dating recommends great literary
stories and fiction books that will help
you build a readable book library. Books also have great display value, showing
off your wide-ranging interest in a variety of subjects by the
books you have around your home.
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans - Now more than
ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity
thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our
nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our "funny bones" are
neither fun nor bony. Glum is the new giddy, and the old giddy
wasn’t too giddy to begin with. What can be done to stop this
relentless march of drabbery? Not much. Nothing we can think of.
It’s pretty much too late. The light of August turns to the
overcast skies of autumn, and the taunting sting of winter cannot
be far ahead on the highway of the road on the horizon. Who can
sing a song without words? Maybe Bobby McFerrin, but is there
anyone else? Where do we go when the party is over? Perhaps the
afterparty. But what comes after the afterparty?
Life of Pi - The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an
encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of
stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to
North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo
animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself
alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a
wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon
the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and
cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days
while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico,
Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The
Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his
story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of
coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical,
much more conventional--but is it more true?
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - From the author of
the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie,
a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and
the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer. Eddie
is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind,
an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement
park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he
tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the
afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's
a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some
of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one,
from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit
their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of
his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind
the eternal question: "Why was I here?"
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