Matt Haig
2) The humans
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there's more to the human race than he suspected
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader look at how modern life feeds our anxiety, and how to live a better life. The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered to make us unhappy. When Matt Haig developed panic disorder, anxiety, and depression as an adult, it took him a long time to work out the ways the external world...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by his aunt's Norwegian elkhound, Ibsen, twelve-year-old Samuel ventures into a weird forest filled with strange and dangerous creatures to rescue his younger sister, Martha, who has been mute since their parents' recent death
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Amelia Wishart's Christmas spirit helped Santa get the extra boost of magic he needed to make his first trip around the world. When she's sent to the workhouse, now-orphaned Amelia's hope begins to drain away. Santa sets out to find her with the help of his reindeer, a curious cat, and Charles Dickens.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Having been careful to heed his Aunt Eda's warnings to not enter the dangerous Shadow Forest, twelve-year-old Samuel Blink finds himself in a difficult situation when Troll-Son runs away from his Shadow Forest home to come and live with Samuel, his human hero