Suggestions for Providence Academy Library #3
Discover the best books for Providence Academy Library with our curated list #3. From Shannon Hale's graphic novels like Calamity Jack to Walker Percy's thought-provoking fiction such as The Thanatos Syndrome, explore engaging reads for every shelf.
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Lost in the Cosmos
by Walker Percy
Explores human nature and presents insights on the self and its fears, sexuality, boredom, depression, and other aspects.
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The Last Gentleman
by Walker Percy
Will Barrett is the last gentleman, a twenty-five-year-old wanderer from the south living in New York City with no plans for the future and detached from his past--Then!!
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The Thanatos Syndrome
by Walker Percy
Returning home to the small Louisiana parish where he had praticed psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occuring with the townfolk, a loss of inhibitions. Behind this mystery is a dangerous plot drug the local water supply, and a discovery that takes More into the underside of the American search for happiness.
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Rapunzel's Revenge
by Shannon Hale
Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother . . . or the woman she thought was her mother. Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the garden wall . . . a rather enormous garden wall. And every year, as she grew older, things seemed weirder and weirder, until the day she finally climbed to the top of the wall and looked over into the mines and desert beyond. Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale teams up with husband Dean Hale and brilliant artist Nathan Hale (no relation) to bring readers a swashbuckling and hilarious twist on the classic story as you've never seen it before. Watch as Rapunzel and her amazing hair team up with Jack (of beanstalk fame) to gallop around the wild and western landscape, changing lives, righting wrongs, and bringing joy to every soul they encounter.
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Calamity Jack
by Shannon Hale
In this graphic novel interpretation of "Jack and the Beanstalk," Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends.
