Looking for Alaska 100-200First drink. First prank. First friend. First love. Last words. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Franois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps". Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact
From the author of Truly Madly Guilty and The Husband s Secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive
What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia
He eviscerates the major arguments for religion
It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century
for all of them
from planning to pitching--and faced a thousand questions and uncertainties
wishes have a way of coming true
talks me down
the East Coast's Corsican crime lord
Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children
and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see your life
and those who will lose everything