George: 988 books

Stanley is your typical everyday, apathetic slacker, stuck in a dead-end job, when fate, destiny, and/or an unusual shipping error on the part of a large e-commerce site suddenly bestow upon him a shiny, sexy, nearly-magical sword. Soon thereafter, he encounters a succession of mentally-unstable...

I slept very well. I open my eyes. Everything is unfamiliar to me here! Where am I? The bed is very soft, crisp white linen. The Sun looks out the window and greets me with its rays. So good! But where am I? And here's another problem – I forgot my name. Who am I? Maybe my name is Svetlana. Yes, a beautiful name. I am Svetlana!

Drew Dunkel, reporter, has been feeling funny lately. Maybe it’s because his estranged daughter is back in town, apparently eager to renew their acquaintance. Or is she? Suddenly she’s visiting him at the newspaper, raving about conspiracy theories and mind control. When she’s clapped...

“Wake up everybody! Boarders ahoy! Hey! Something’s after our grub! Hurry up, or we’ll be cleaned out!” There was an upheaval of blankets in the lone tent that stood on the bank of a Michigan stream; then three boys came crawling every-which-way out, without more than a hazy idea as to what they were doing.

A clever apple takes the time as he falls off a tree to explain to Sir Isaac Newton how gravity works.This 365-words children’s story joins facts the impossible, history with the improbable, and science with the unexpected.On that famous day, one real and one imaginary character tangle...

Jay Watson is in a post-college rut. Stuck in a dead-end job, he is dumped by his girlfriend for a TV celebrity and is broke after blowing through his trust fund. Now his parents want him to settle down, join the family business, and give them grandkids—in short, to say goodbye to his independence....

As a bishop, the 33-day Pope John Paul I had ordered his priests to melt down their golden chalices and other implements of idol worship to build an orphanage. As a Pope, he lifted a chalice to worldwide television cameras: “This chalice contains one hundred and twenty of the world’s most pristine...

Summer has set in the small coastal town of Breezewater, Georgia, and nineteen-year-old Sarah Towson has returned home from college in California. In the midst of her fresh return, she finds her family and friends are much adjusted to life without her. On the other side of town, Joel Sealet,...

Vicki is first repelled and then intrigued when an unusual clerk is hired in Hellman's Department Store. He tells interesting stories about college hijinks, Las Vegas Blackjack, card counting, poker, Tai Chi and the Chinese internal system. He discusses the counterculture, The Manhattan Project and...

It sounded so simple when Alex Righetti, the theater department head, explained it to Dewy Spearman who, at 43 years-old, is recently divorced, changing careers, and enjoying his renewed bachelorhood with female graduate students some of whom are only half his age; go to New Orleans, teach theater...

A charming narrative about a young boy and a seemingly insignificant ladybug who come together to ensure the continuation of the all- encompassing sequence of life.

This story is about a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig who lives in Henderson, Nevada, and her special quest.

I have suffered from panic attacks for a number of years. Although they are terrifying when they are happening, they are nearly always comical when you look back on them. This little book shares some of my terror and some of my laughs.

L'Homme invisible est un roman de science-fiction de H. G. Wells, publié en 1897.