Special topics in calamity physics
Marisha Pessl (Author)
A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge, and is quite the cinéaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the élite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide, or misguide, her
Detective and mystery stories
514 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780670037773, 9780143112129, 9780670916078, 9780739477137, 067003777X, 0143112120, 0670916072, 0739477137
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Othello / William Shakespeare
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce
Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë
The House of the Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Woman in White / Wilkie Collins
Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
Les Liaisons Dangereuses / Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert
Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw
The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Agatha Christie
Moby Dick / Herman Melville
A Moveable Feast / Ernest Hemingway
Women in Love / D.H. Lawrence
"The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" / John Cheever
Sweet Bird of Youth / Tennessee Williams
Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
A Room with a View / E.M. Forster
Howl and other poems / Allen Ginsberg
The Taming of the Shrew / William Shakespeare
Deliverance / James Dickey
Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of solitude / Gabriel García Márquez
Bleak House / Charles Dickens
The Big Sleep / Raymond Chandler
Justine / Marquis de Sade
Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto de via Merulana / Carlo Emilio Gadda
Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe
The Nocturnal Conspiracy / Smoke Wyannoch Harvey
Che Guevara Talks to Young People / Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
"Good Country People" / Flannery O'Connor
The Trial / Franz Kafka
Paradise Lost / John Milton
The Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett
Metamorphoses / Ovid