Books that have impacted your life (10 books)
Description: Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing - if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him?
Description: Anissa is traumatized by the most brutal conflict of the 21st Century: the Syrian Civil War. In 2012, Islamists in Homs terrorize a Syrian-Christian community and destroy everything that a young woman holds dear. Narrowly escaping death, Anissa restarts her devastated life as a college student in NY. She is bewildered and lost — a virgin in every sense.
But despite her inexperience with men and life in the United
States, Anissa is quickly drawn to two powerful individuals: Michael Kassab,
the Syrian-American leader working to found the first Mideast Christian state,
and Julien Morales, her Columbia University professor who runs a $20 billion
hedge fund.
Complicating matters, Michael is still attached to his
ex-girlfriend and Julien is the most sought after bachelor in Manhattan (and
has hidden demons even his therapist can’t extract). Anissa’s heart and her
communal ties pull her in different directions, as she seeks hope and renewal
in a dark world.
WARNING: This book is about a young woman’s difficult
journey: her escape from Syria’s Civil War, her transition to a new a country,
and the relationships that she forms along the way, including her romantic
interests in two very different men. The story is set against the backdrop of
the Syrian Civil War and makes reference to violent acts, sometimes in detail.
There is some occasional profanity and a few scenes that depict sexual
intimacy. Accordingly, the recommended minimum age for readers is 16. The novel
might be compared to books like The Diary of Anne Frank or The Kite Runner.
3. The Book Thief
Description: It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a
girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish
fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s
groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living
outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by
stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of
her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen
books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man
hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to
feed the soul.
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
Description: The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern
town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became
both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published
in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into
an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A
Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior—to innocence and
experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with
over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this
regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee
always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a
masterpiece of American literature.
5.Anissa's Redemption (The Syrian Virgin #2)
Anissa Toma fled war-torn Syria after narrowly escaping the massacre of her Christian family by Islamists. Fortunate enough to rebuild her shattered life in New York City, the young refugee gained admission to an elite college, where she excelled. Her beauty, brains, and purity soon captured the interest of two powerful men: Michael, an activist working to establish Antioch, the first Mideast Christian state, and Julien, her professor and one of the city’s wealthiest bachelors.
As Anissa's saga continues, the refugee-turned-rising-star must navigate between Michael and Julien, while trying to help her surviving relatives and other vulnerable Christians in Syria. As she gets closer to both men in a complex and evolving love triangle, can she unlock Julien's traumatic childhood to open up his heart? Or will Julien find greater solace from his nightmares and other demons in the sessions with his intriguing therapist? What will Michael do for Antioch and for Anissa, and what will Julien's role be? How far will each person go to help Anissa's remaining family and other persecuted Christians at risk in Syria? Find out in this stunning sequel to "The Syrian Virgin."
As Anissa's saga continues, the refugee-turned-rising-star must navigate between Michael and Julien, while trying to help her surviving relatives and other vulnerable Christians in Syria. As she gets closer to both men in a complex and evolving love triangle, can she unlock Julien's traumatic childhood to open up his heart? Or will Julien find greater solace from his nightmares and other demons in the sessions with his intriguing therapist? What will Michael do for Antioch and for Anissa, and what will Julien's role be? How far will each person go to help Anissa's remaining family and other persecuted Christians at risk in Syria? Find out in this stunning sequel to "The Syrian Virgin."
6.Lovely Bone
Description: On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.
7.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3)
Description: For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.
Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well; and the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts . . . he's at Hogwarts."
Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst
8.Eclipse ( Twilight #3 )
Description: "BELLA?"
Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.
This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.
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As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?
Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devourEclipse, the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga.
9. Night ( The Night Trilogy #1)
Description: Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the father–child relationship as his father declines to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregiver.
Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of Anne Frank,Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
10.The Time Traveler's Wife
Description: Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, have known each other since Clare was 6 and Henry was 36, married when Clare 23 and Henry 31. Impossible but true. Because Henry unintentionally jumps in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity, past and future. His experiences can be harrowing or amusing.
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