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Between the Lines 2025 Reading Challenge Book Prompt #10

Updated December 13, 2024
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Cryptonomicon
Stephenson, Neal.
Audiobook
The gunslinger
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Now with a stunning new cover look comes the first captivating volume in King's epic fantasy series, THE DARK TOWER. 'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.' The iconic opening line of Stephen King's groundbreaking series, The Dark...
Hiroshima : the last witnesses
Sheftall, M. G.
Paper Book
'a master class in eyewitness storytelling . . . this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A Scenario The stories of hibakusha - Japanese for atomic bomb survivors - lie at the heart of...
The hobbit, or, There and back again
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paper Book
A brand new revised edition of the best-selling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings. First published in 1990, David Wenzel's comic book adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was an immediate success and has become one of the best-loved...
The last days of night : a novel
Moore, Graham
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America--from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and author of The Sherlockian ...
The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
Lewis, C. S.
Paper Book
A full-colour paperback edition of The Lion The Witch and the Wardobe, book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and full-colour interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes.. Four adventurous siblings-...
The Time Machine
Wells, H. G.
Paper Book
Wells's genre-defining novel of time travel When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he...

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