Catalog Search Results
1) Candide
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Candide is about a man who believes in the philosophy that: "what happens, happens for the best in the end" that was taught to him by his personal philosopher Dr. Pangloss. Candide goes through many, many trials and everyone he meets has had something terrible happen to them. He searches the world over for his love Cunegonde. And in the end finds that the simplest things in life: love, friends, and health are all that matters.
Author
Language
English
Description
Three generations. Seven days. One big secret. The author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake unfolds a mother-daughter story told by three women whose time to reckon with a life-altering secret is running out. Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there's no chance of that. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys...
Author
Language
English
Description
"With her penchant for seeing the best in everyone, Hope Irvine sees a world full of good people in hard places. When her father accepts a position traveling in a chapel car as an on-the-rail missionary, she is determined to join him in his efforts and put her musical skills to good use by serving the mining families of West Virginia, saving their souls, and bettering their lives. Luke Hughes shares Hope's love of music and her love of God, but as...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this 'optimism' concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the 'all for the best' approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent earthquakes in Lima and Lisbon - not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging...
Author
Language
English
Description
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Author
Language
Polish
Description
"Lilianna Berg każdego poranka otwiera oczy i przyjmuje z radością to, co przyniesie kolejny dzień. Bo każdy dzień jest wyjątkowy, już nigdy się nie powtórzy. Dziewczyna kolekcjonuje unikatowe, barwne sukienki, które odzwierciedlają jej osobowość, odwagę i gotowość na podejmowanie nowych wyzwań. Codziennie rano staje przed lustrem, patrzy z radością na swoje oblicze i mówi: „Życie Cię kocha, Lili”. Cztery proste słowa,...
Author
Language
English
Description
It may be the dead of winter, but a sudden drop in temperature isn't enough to stop the Service Club from buzzing with activity. Students are still coming by the clubroom to ask favors of the crew. From a certain boy's vapid request to Iroha's unrelenting pleas for help, Yuigahama and Yukinoshita just can't seem to catch a break. Neither, it seems, can Hachiman--especially given his preoccupation with good times, the future, precious days off, and...
10) Happy dreams
Author
Language
English
Description
Poverty and injustice test one man's relentless optimism. From one of China's foremost authors, Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its humor and pathos, as seen through the eyes of Happy Liu, a charming and clever rural laborer who leaves his home for the gritty, harsh streets of Xi'an in search of a better life. After a disastrous end to a relationship, Hawa "Happy" Liu embarks...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request