Daniel Wallace
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Walker was once a world-class magician, performing to sold-out shows in New York. But now he has been reduced to joining Musgrove's Chinese Circus (which at no point in its tour of the deep South has ever included a single Chinese person) as the shambling Negro Magician, whose dark black skin and electric green eyes bewitch most audiences. But one balmy Mississippi night in 1954, Henry disappears in the company of three rowdy white teens and...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A large-hearted and optimistic novel, Extraordinary Adventures is the latest from the New York Times bestselling Daniel Wallace. Edsel Bronfman works as a junior executive shipping clerk for an importer of Korean flatware. He lives in a seedy neighborhood and spends his free time with his spirited mother. Things happen to other people, and Bronfman knows it. Until, that is, he gets a call from operator 61217 telling him that he's won a free weekend...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When their parents die an untimely death, a blind, naïve younger sister becomes wholly dependent on her bitter and conniving older sister, who overprotectively imparts stories of a brutal and dangerous world until the younger sister makes a surprising choice.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Explains the back story of Superman's cousin, Kara Zor-El-- Supergirl--from her life as a teenager on Krypton and her arrival on Earth after years in suspended animation to her efforts to adjust to human society and her role as a superhero.
11) Big fish
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
William Bloom, is a young man who never really knew his now dying father, Edward - outside of the tall tales his dad told him about growing up. During Edward's last days William and his wife Josephine hold a bedside vigil next to the old man as he recollects elaborate memories of his youth. Still doubting the legends and folklore, William makes a journey to meet a mysterious woman from whom Edward had bought property.
12) Big fish
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As his father Edward lies on his deathbed, William Bloom attempts to get to know him beyond the tall tales he tells about his life."--