Peter Levin
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Abigail Foster, a woman who contracts a rare condition that puts her into a coma at 17, awakens 20 years later to a world completely foreign to her. Chronologically, Abigail is a grown woman but emotionally she is still a teenager in fragile health. Now she must compress a lifetime of experiences and maturing into a few frightening months.
4) Queen sized
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Overweight high school senior Maggie Baker knows she will never be as pretty, skinny or wealthy as the popular girls. When a cruel prank nominates her for election as Homecoming Queen, Maggie decides to go ahead with her campaign, even though this is against the advice of the school administration and her mom and the mean girls who will do anything to keep Maggie feeling like a loser.
7) The way back
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1941 three men walked out of the Himalayas into India. They has survived a 4,000 mile walk to freedom. While there is disagreement on whether or not this is a true story, this film is a textbook example of the "man vs. Nature-red-in-tooth-and-claw" survival film. Janusz, a Polish prisoner of war, is forced to sign a false confession and shipped off to Siberia to rot in the most brutal prison system in the world--the Gulag. In prison, he meets a...
8) The way back
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs to...
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